Janice Green: Free Enterprise Is Ultimate Empowerment

The power to prosper.    I have, earlier in my life, been simultaneously a student, mother, employee, chauffeur, and jack-of-all-family-related-trades, so I know how difficult it can be to attend to all issues during a campaign season.  However, it is especially concerning to me to hear women, especially young women, announcing their intentions to    ... MORE

VIDEO: The Problem Is Statism

Paul Driessen: EPA Anti-Energy Regulations Killing Jobs

Bogus green schemes harm Americans.     More and more, daily decisions are made less by responsible citizens than by nanny-state government, especially powerful, unelected, unaccountable executive branch agencies in Washington. Among the worst is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Under Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, EPA   ... MORE

John Stossel: Greed

Inequality is a product of freedom.    On TV, my Fox colleague Bill O'Reilly says, "The recession was brought on largely by greedy Wall Street corporations." Give me a break. Bill's smart. If he believes such things, we who care about freedom have done a poor job communicating economics. Blaming problems on "greed" is a mindless cliche.     ... MORE 

The Unintended Consequences Of Minimum Wage

by Luis San Vincente Portes.   New Jersey's Democratic leaders are seeking to include on the 2013 ballot a proposal to increase the minimum wage in the state from $7.25 to $8.25 per hour and to automatically tie it to further increases in the cost of living. The initiative is founded on states’ ability to set a minimum wage apart from the federal under the  ... MORE

Becky Akers: The TSA Gives Us The Finger Again

New ways to monitor the human livestock.      The Thieves and Sexual Assailants are playing musical chairs with their porno-scanners. They’re shuffling carcinogenic backscatter X-ray machines out of larger airports, such as New York’s LaGuardia and JFK International, into smaller ones — but that doesn’t mean they’ve renounced their       ... MORE

VIDEO: Tibor R. Machan - The Libertarian Credo

Walter E Williams: What You Can't Say

Don't attempt to explain slavery to children.     Jon Hubbard, a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, has a book, titled "Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative." Among its statements for which Hubbard has been criticized and disavowed by the Republican Party is, "The institution of slavery that the     ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Libya And Lies

No profile in courage here. It was a little much when President Barack Obama said that he was "offended" by the suggestion that his administration would try to deceive the public about what happened in Benghazi. What has this man not deceived the public about? Remember his pledge to cut the deficit in half in his first term in office? This was followed by the  ... MORE

VIDEO: Cops Taser Man Out Of Tree, Leaving Him Paralyzed


Deputies claimed they acted to "keep him from harming himself."  ... MORE

Ron Paul: The Internet Revolution Is A Liberty Revolution

LibertyPen is just one of the cogs.   Until the late 1990s, individuals interested in Austrian economics, U.S. constitutional history, and libertarian philosophy had few sources of information.  They had to spend hours scouring used book stores or the back pages of obscure libertarian periodicals to find the great works of Mises, Rothbard, Hayek, and other giants  ... MORE

Marijuana Legalization Leads In Washington And Colorado

by Jonathan Martin. Washington is emerging as the most likely state to be the first to legalize marijuana according to new polls. But even with a huge fundraising advantage, and less organized opposition, Initiative 502 is far from a lock as voters begin casting ballots. A poll released today by Strategies 360 finds a 54-to-38 lead for I-502, with about 7 percent ... MORE