VIDEO: Federal Entitlement Spending Since 1950

Tristan Higgins: Why I Hate The TSA

Ignorance and humiliation "public servant-style."    Some days are worse than others. I've talked a lot on my blog about what I experience as a butch lesbian, specifically how people interact with me when they see that I don't conform to the gender identities that they expect. I feel all lined up on the inside -- I am a woman physically, and I feel like  ... MORE

A. Barton Hinkle: The Bogus Case Against Junk Food

Anti-food nannies launch their latest attack. A recent cover story in The New York Times Magazine offers a shocking exposé of Big Food. In granular detail it relates the food conglomerates' "hyper-engineered, savagely marketed, addiction-creating battle for 'stomach share.'” If you don't have the time to slog through the nearly 10,000 words,   ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: Scaring The Ghost Of El Chapo

El Chapo haunts the streets of Chicago.    His ghost hoards cash in Los Angeles stash houses. His shadow darkens underground tunnels between Mexico and the U.S. His spirit drives his clan to bloodshed. The world’s most-wanted kingpin may be dead. But the Sinaloa cartel will thrive until America legalizes drugs. Guatemalan authorities are currently ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Higher Minimum Wages

A maximum folly.     In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama proposed raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9 an hour. That would be almost a 25 percent increase. Let's look at the president's proposal, but before doing so, let's ask some other economic questions. Are people responsive to changes in price? For example, if the price of  ... MORE

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Robert Zurbin: Imposing Misery By Environmental Devotion

Green anti-humanism.      On February 11, 2013, the Denver Post ran a guest commentary of great clinical interest. In the piece in question, Colorado State University philosophy professor Philip Cafaro advanced the argument that immigration needs to be sharply cut, because otherwise people from Third World nations will come to the United States and  ... MORE

Richard Berman: Raising Minimum Wage Is Bad Magic Trick

Presto, change-o and workers will be hurt.   Apparently America’s employees were better off in 1968 than they are today. At least, such is the claim of the labor-backed activists and the AFL-CIO’s chief economist. By their telling, the minimum wage has lost value — if it were fairly adjusted since the late 1960s, it would today be set at $10.58.  ... MORE

VIDEO: Conan Shows How Media Reads From Same Script

Barry Farber: BHO And His Magic Shield

No failure the media won't ignore.    There are bookies in London who will take your bets on who will be the next pope. As long as they’re such sports, will they make book on this: Is there anything President Obama can do or say that will pierce his magic shield and turn American mass media reverence into rage? Obama is the most incredible    ... MORE

Brad Hamilton: Nanny Bloomberg's War On Free Choice

NYC bans 2-liter bottles of soda with pizza delivery.   Take a big gulp, New York: Hizzoner is about to give you a pop. Nanny Bloomberg unleashes his ban on large sodas on March 12 — and there are some nasty surprises lurking for hardworking families. Say goodbye to that 2-liter bottle of Coke with your pizza delivery, pitchers of soft drinks at your     ... MORE