Peter Schiff: The Real Fiscal Cliff

Foolish borrowing driving us over the cliff.   The media is now fixated on an apparently new feature dominating the economic landscape: a “fiscal cliff” from which the United States will fall in January 2013. They see the danger arising from the simultaneous implementation of the $2 trillion in automatic spending cuts (spread over 10 years) agreed  ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: We Are At A Turning Point

Do you need government permission to exercise your rights? Presently in America, nearly half of all households receive either a salary or substantial benefits from the government. Presently in America, nearly half of all adults pay no federal income taxes. Presently in America, the half that pay no income taxes receive the bulk of their income    ... MORE

Sheldon Richman: The Government's Economic Impotency

The clueless politicians guiding our economy.   It should finally have dawned on the American people that the politicians who presume to guide the economy have no bloody idea what they’re doing. We’re long past the time when knowledge of economics was required to see that the government is impotent when it comes to creating economic      ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Generational Theft

Paul Driessen: America Pays Dearly To Go 'Green'

War on fossil fuels means higher prices for families. President Obama has spent 3 1/2 years waging war on fossil fuels - and American consumers and families are caught in the crossfire. They are getting hit with higher energy prices, watching billions go to unfriendly overseas countries for oil we could produce in the United States, and seeing billions   ... MORE

Jury Nullification Can Highlight Flaws In The Law

by Bob Egelko. The case of William Lynch, who admitted beating a priest in retaliation for a sexual assault 35 years earlier, was a classic example of jury nullification - jurors' power to acquit a defendant based on their sense of justice or subjective feelings, rather than the law's definition of guilt or innocence. Juries used that power in 1670 to free William Penn ... MORE

VIDEO: Educating Bill O'Reilly On The Constitution

AP: Surveillance Requests To Cellphone Carriers Surge

Needed: a Fourth Amendment for the 21st century.     Law enforcement agencies in the U.S. made more than 1.3 million requests for consumers' cellphone records in 2011, an alarming surge over previous years that reflected the increasingly gray area between privacy and technology. Cellphone carriers, responding to inquiries from a    ... MORE

John Stossel: Budget Insanity

Political vision does not seem to extend beyond next election. Last year, Congress agreed to $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts, unless politicians find other things to cut. They didn't, of course. So now, with so-called sequestration looming in January, panic has set in. Even the new "fiscally responsible" Republicans vote against cutting Energy      ... MORE

John Fund: California Demon

A state fast becoming America's version of Greece.  The lastest unemployment numbers show the economic recovery stalling. But as weak as the national economy is, it’s nothing compared to the condition of some states whose policies are guaranteed to scare away jobs and investment. Call it the European Disease: Run up spending and   ... MORE

Mike Riggs: Cooking The Drug War Books Obama-Style

3 accounting tricks the Obama administration uses. "Since day one, President Obama has led the way in reforming our Nation's drug policies by, among other things, addressing drug use and its consequences as a public health problem,” reads a statement posted on We the People, the petition site started by the, er, Obama administration ... MORE

VIDEO: Armen Alchian - Property Rights