Rand Paul To Take On TSA Once Again

Privatize security.    We’ve complained long and hard about the TSA and it’s terrible “security” practices for years. It’s a horrible agency that should have never been instituted. Fortunately, Rand Paul is on the case: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he will very likely re-introduce legislation to drastically scale back the Transportation Securities        ... MORE

All You Need To Know About "Assault Rifles"

Scare terms and reality.  There are many articles on the internet where people can learn the origins of the term “assault rifle”, so I won’t go into that here. Nor will I get into the topic of gun control effectiveness. Larry Correia has done such a good job here that anything I add would be redundant. “You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what   ... MORE

IRS: Cheapest ObamaCare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family

by Matt Cover.      In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a family will cost $20,000 for the year. Under Obamacare, Americans will be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS. The IRS's assumption that the      ... MORE

David Bier: The Coming National Identification System

Big Brother is watching you.      “Maybe we should just brand all the babies.” With this joke, Ronald Reagan swatted down a national identification card — or an enhanced Social Security card — proposed by his attorney general in 1981. For more than three decades since, attempts to implement the proposal have all met with failure, but now         ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - A Philosophy Of Self-Ownership

Baylen Linnekin: Food Freedom Vs. Regulatory Busybodies

The state of things are looking up.   While national stories like the multi-pronged assault on energy drinks and the FDA’s proposed Food Safety Modernization Act rules rightly grab headlines—and often my attention—it’s perhaps too easy to overlook the fact that much of what’s good and bad in the area of food law and policy is taking place in our backyards    ... MORE

Mike Riggs: The Pot Reform Movement Picks Up Speed

Four more states to reform pot laws in 2013. It's been only two months since Washington and Colorado voters legalized recreational marijuana, but the advocates who raised millions to pass Amendment 64 and Initiative 502 aren't wasting time celebrating. In addition to helping craft the rules and regulations in the Centennial and Evergreen   ... MORE

VIDEO: Nanny of the Month - Jan 2013


Busybodies minding your own business. Will it be permits for strippers or prison for smokers?

Devin Brian: Price Gouging On Guns?

Where is the outrage? Every time there is a natural disaster of some sort, gas station owners are considered monstrous for raising prices to coincide with increased demand of their scarce resources. However, I have not heard anyone calling for the immediate lynching of those greedy gun shop owners who have doubled or even tripled prices on    ... MORE

Donald Lambro: Economy Progresses Downward

Americans re-elected this recession.    When millions of voters went to the polls in November to narrowly re-elect Barack Obama, the economy was rapidly shrinking toward recessionary levels. In the last three months of 2012, the gross domestic product — the measurement of everything America produces — fell to an annualized rate of 0.1 percent, the      ... MORE

Tibor Machan: On Rape And Pragmatism

Principles in the age of the pragmatist.   Something not often noted in the discussion of rape across the globe is that in an age that prizes pragmatism as opposed to firm principles of conduct, even rape can be excused based on the expected benefit to the rapist versus injury to the victim. If one doesn't care about the basic principle of consent,  ... MORE