Jacob Sullum: Are Online Sales Taxes Only Fair?

Market Fairness Act imposes an unnecessary burden.    At a 2008 shareholders meeting, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos explained why he opposed requiring businesses like his to collect state and local taxes on their interstate sales. "We're not actually benefiting from any services that those states provide locally," Bezos said. ... MORE

Ross Kaminsky: The Pigs Of Pigford

Most naked taxpayer fleecing in recent memory.       The Washington Times covered it in 2001. And so did Fox News. Jennifer Rubin wrote about it in 2008, and many writers on these pages have mentioned it since then. In 2011, Andrew Breitbart made it one of his most cared-about causes, following from his outing of on-again off-again,   ... MORE

VIDEO: Protecting You From Low-Cost Teeth Whitening


FLOSS: Fighting to protect dentists from fair competition.

‘Held Hostage By The Tyranny Of Political Correctness’

RGIII speaks out.     Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III took to Twitter on Tuesday to complain about the “tyranny of political correctness” he believes is holding American culture “hostage.” “In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness,” the NFL player wrote on his official Twitter account.        ... MORE

No More Tax Dollars For Presidential Libraries

by Gene Healy.    Last week, at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, President Obama and former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter put partisanship aside and descended on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas to say nice things about our 43rd president, (They're all in the same racket, after all.)     ... MORE

Rituparna Basu: How ObamaCare Fleeces The Young

Paying higher rates to subsidize the old. Starting next year, the Affordable Care Act will limit how much health insurance premiums can vary based on age. Health insurers will be restricted to charging older people no more than three times higher premiums than they charge younger people. This is bad news for the young. It's a fact that     ... MORE

Thomas Sowell - The Art Of The Impossible

Someone called politics "the art of the possible."    But, in the era of the modern welfare state, politics is largely the art of the impossible. Those people morbid enough to keep track of politicians' promises may remember how Barack Obama said that ObamaCare would lower medical costs -- and lots of people bought it. But if you   ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Willliams - Affirmative Action & Self-Help

J.D. Tuccille: Print Your Gun Parts At Home

New technology challenges gun control laws.  In February, the techie gun-rights group Defense Distributed unveiled a 3D-printed lower receiver for an AR-15 rifle that withstood hundreds of rounds of fire. A YouTube video of the component in action was accompanied by the terse statement, “Does not fail from firing stresses. 600+ rounds.”    ... MORE

Cops Take $160,000 In 'Policing For Profit' Scheme

Government-approved highway robbery.   NewsChannel 5 has uncovered a brand new "policing for profit" case -- a case that resulted in a New York man losing a $160,000 on a Tennessee interstate. Even more startling, critics said, the case exposes a major loophole around a new law that's supposed to crack down on such abuses.      ... MORE

VIDEO: Nanny Of The Month, April 2013


What kind of monster bans Chipotle?!