VIDEO: Death to Pennies

Bruce Johnson's Bernanke's Cow Bell In The Night

One thing is for certain: Bernanke is committed.     But so is a one-trick pony.  However, is blind commitment to a theory a virtue or a frailty? The Federal Reserve chairman continues to push the chips out to the center of the table with both hands.  He knows that low interest rates create employment.  He is certain.  Well, pretty certain.     ... MORE

Steve Chapman: Gun Rights Find A New Home

Illinois cannot maintain its fiat ban on concealed-carry.  There are certain constants to life in Illinois. Abraham Lincoln has always been revered. The Cubs always find a way to lose. Lake Michigan never goes dry. Letting citizens carrying concealed firearms is out of the question. But one of those is no longer true. Tuesday, a federal appeals court said      ... MORE

Gun Control, People Control And Thought Control

by Daniel Greenfield.    The gun control debate, like all debates with the left, is reducible to the question of whether we are individuals who make our own decisions or a great squishy social mass that helplessly responds to stimuli. Do people kill with guns or does the availability of guns kill people? Do bad eating habits kill people or does the    ... MORE

Ed Morrissey: Probable Cause No Longer Required

Government free to rifle through records at will.      Remember when government needed something called a warrant or even probable cause to look at your records?  Good times, good times.  I’m nostalgic for the halcyon days of, er, February of this year, before the Attorney General of the United States signed off on an order allowing the        ... MORE

VIDEO: Murray Rothbard - Who Is The State?

Opposing Out-Of-Control Government Spying

by Andrew Napolitano.      After President Richard Nixon was forced from office in 1974, congressional investigators discovered what they believed was the full extent of his use of the FBI and the CIA to engage in domestic spying. In that pre-digital era, the spying consisted of listening to telephone calls, opening mail, and using undercover agents to  ... MORE

Ross Kaminsky: Death By A Thousand Regulatory Cuts

Prepare for the worst.  The public debate over the “fiscal cliff,” the combination of automatic spending cuts and tax rate increases that our nation is about to careen into in 2013, started the same way Republicans always begin following an electoral setback: badly. John Boehner seemed to be negotiating with himself, and conservative pundit   ... MORE

VIDEO: How The Constitution Was Destroyed


Judge Napolitano discusses the influence of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

How Much Taxation Would Fund Current Spending?

by Justin Hohn.  To best understand this spending aspect of the current budget negotiations in Washington, we must answer one crucial question: how much taxation on the top income-earners would be required to fully fund the present level of government spending? To do so, we must first make the unreasonable assumption that the rich will not respond  ... MORE

Who Benefits From The Mortgage Interest Deduction?

by Anthony Randazzo & Dean Stansel.    The federal income tax code is riddled with loopholes, deductions, and credits designed to promote various social goals and benefit assorted groups of Americans. One of the largest of these is the mortgage interest deduction (MID), which allowed taxpayers to claim benefits of $82.7 billion in      ... MORE