Larisa Brown: Switzerland Selected Best Place To Be Born

U.S was 1st under Reagan, has now fallen to 16th.  Switzerland is the best place to be born in the world in 2013, and the U.S. is just 16th. A new study produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit says American babies will have a dimmer future than those born in Hong Kong, Ireland and even Canada. The EIU, a sister company of The    ... MORE

VIDEO: Antonin Scalia - Interpretive Principles

Walter E Williams: Future Generations

Behaving like there is no tomorrow.     Is there any reason for today's Americans to care about what happens to tomorrow's Americans? After all, what have tomorrow's Americans done for today's Americans? Moreover, since tomorrow's Americans don't vote, we can dump on them with impunity. That's a vision that describes the actual behavior  ... MORE

Isaiah Thompson: The Philly Cash Machine

The Philly D.A. has a license to steal.    When Philadelphia Police officers stopped Dwayne Marks as he was driving north on Broad Street near Temple University last year, Marks says he wasn’t particularly worried. Marks, who is a black man in his late 30s from East Mount Airy, has faced drug charges in the past — but he’s straightened up,  ... MORE

VIDEO: Social Justice and Its Critics

Supreme Court Makes Ruling In Favor Of Private Property

Government no longer free to cause flooding.      Supreme Court boosted property rights Tuesday, ruling unanimously government is not automatically exempt from liability when it causes flooding. In an Arkansas case, the justices said there is no automatic exemption from the Constitution's takings clause in the Fifth Amendment --      ... MORE

Ira Stoll: Why AT&T's CEO Wants Higher Taxes

They a lot of business with the U.S. government.            AT&T customers, pay attention: your phone company is trying to raise your rates. No, not your phone rates: your tax rates. And therein lies a story. If federal campaign contributions are any guide, the CEO and chairman of AT&T, Randall Stephenson, is, or was, a solid Republican. In         ... MORE 

Katie Kieffer: Push The Fed Over The Cliff

Stop worrying about the ‘fiscal cliff.’    Spending cuts would feel therapeutic after watching Standard & Poor's and Egan-Jones downgrade our credit rating and seeing President Obama add $6 trillion to the national debt. The way to avert another recession and massive inflation is to eliminate the unconstitutional Federal Reserve. There are   ... MORE

Allyson Mitchell: Obama Making Up Drone Rules As He Goes

Americans need transparency of conventional warfare.     The Obama administration has not yet answered concerns regarding the secrecy, legality and efficacy of the drone warfare program. During the presidential elections, to avoid leaving business unfinished, a last-minute effort surfaced in the White House to create a secret rule      ... MORE

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Ron Resnick: How Reality TV Saved The 2nd Amendment

An unexpected source promotes liberty.      I used to dream that someday I would make a fortune, retire from whatever business occasioned the fortune, and endow what I would call the Second Amendment Litigation Trust. The sole purpose of this trust would be to finance Second Amendment attorneys to prosecute litigation designed to result   ... MORE