Ben Stein: An Embarrassment To The Nation

Hushing scandal until after the election.   General David Petraeus is roughly one thousand times the man I am. He is braver, tougher, more self-sacrificing, smarter, more unselfish, more patriotic, far more disciplined, apparently able to keep up sexually with a woman twenty years younger than he is who is also an Ironman woman superstar. He is     ... MORE

Charlotte Allen: The Decline And Fall Of The Golden State

State votes for more: taxes, debt, government. On November 6 voters in California did something nearly unheard of during the past 30 years: They approved, by a margin of 54 percent to 46 percent, a ballot measure raising state income taxes on the most prosperous Californians and sales taxes on everyone, even though the state’s sales tax   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Is Price Gouging Bad?

What Legal Pot In Washington State Will Look Like

by Jacob Sullum.  Washington's marijuana legalization initiative, which takes effect on December 6, is broadly similar to Colorado's: Both initiatives eliminate penalties for possession of up to an ounce by adults 21 or older, and both call for state-licensed pot shops, in Washington's case to be regulated by the state liquor control board, which is   ... MORE

How Two Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedoms

by Andrew Napolitano.   They are two of America’s most celebrated presidents. One, a Republican who had a storied military career, created the American conservation movement and once gave a speech after being shot by a would-be assassin; the other, a Democrat who overcame dyslexia as a child only to lead America to victory in World War I and formulate   ... MORE

VIDEO: Free Pittsburgh's Food Trucks to Feed the People

Jim Snyder: Americans Must Favor More Regulations

Voters affirm Obama's job-killing red tape.    Mitt Romney urged voters to reject President Barack Obama and his “job-killing” regulations. Obama’s victory last week shows many Americans aren’t as reflexively anti-Washington as Romney expected. In fact, presidents through history who aggressively used the tools of government at their disposal have    ... MORE

Robert VerBruggen: Free Speech On FIRE

Greg Lukianoff catalogues censorship on campus.       ‘The essentiality of freedom in the community of American universities is almost self-evident,” wrote Earl Warren in a 1957 Supreme Court opinion. Apparently, American universities themselves have come to disagree. In Unlearning Liberty, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education  ... MORE

California's Deadly Embrace Of Big Government

by Steven Greenhut. After Tuesday night’s election results came in, I started searching for two things: a stiff drink and a good out-of-state real-estate agent. The national election sends troubling signs about the direction the country is headed, but nothing much will change from the past four years, so we know what to expect even if it isn’t particularly good.  ... MORE

Ten Little-Known Consequences Of A Second Obama Term

by Matt Purple. We all know what the wrecking balls of a second Obama term will be: widespread unemployment, stagnant economic growth, enormous debt. But the consequences don't stop there. Believing in activist government means your work is never finished. You pass a new law that you think combats injustice and inefficiency. Then human nature kicks ... MORE

VIDEO: Harry Browne - The Prospects For Liberty

Mark Steyn: The Edge Of The Abyss

American society is more liberal and statist than ever. Amid the ruin and rubble of the grey morning after, it may seem in poor taste to do anything so vulgar as plug the new and stunningly topical paperback edition of my book, After America — or, as Dennis Miller retitled it on the radio the other day, Wednesday. But the business of America is business,   ... MORE