VIDEO: Prohibition and "The Man In The Green Hat"


Meet Congress' Favorite Bootlegger

Sylvia Bokor: Limiting Government

Individual rights have been bastardized.  There is no such thing as "a right to a job," "a right to health care," "a right to a decent home," et cetera. No one can transform the actions of those that create products and/or services into another's purview. Today, violations of individual rights are so pervasive that many Americans are ignorant of    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell - Fiscal Cliff Notes - Part II

Anything to expand the size and scope of government. One of the big advantages that President Obama has, as he plays "chicken" with the Congressional Republicans along the "fiscal cliff," is that Obama is a master of the plausible lie, which will never be exposed by the mainstream media-- nor, apparently, by the Republicans. A key lie that      ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Fiscal Cliff Notes

Like a laser cutting through fog.     Amid all the political and media hoopla about the “fiscal cliff” crisis, there are a few facts that are worth noting. First of all, despite all the melodrama about raising taxes on “the rich,” even if that is done, it will scarcely make a dent in the government’s financial problems. Raising the tax rates on everybody in the    ... MORE

Larisa Brown: Switzerland Selected Best Place To Be Born

U.S was 1st under Reagan, has now fallen to 16th.  Switzerland is the best place to be born in the world in 2013, and the U.S. is just 16th. A new study produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit says American babies will have a dimmer future than those born in Hong Kong, Ireland and even Canada. The EIU, a sister company of The    ... MORE

VIDEO: Antonin Scalia - Interpretive Principles

Walter E Williams: Future Generations

Behaving like there is no tomorrow.     Is there any reason for today's Americans to care about what happens to tomorrow's Americans? After all, what have tomorrow's Americans done for today's Americans? Moreover, since tomorrow's Americans don't vote, we can dump on them with impunity. That's a vision that describes the actual behavior  ... MORE

Isaiah Thompson: The Philly Cash Machine

The Philly D.A. has a license to steal.    When Philadelphia Police officers stopped Dwayne Marks as he was driving north on Broad Street near Temple University last year, Marks says he wasn’t particularly worried. Marks, who is a black man in his late 30s from East Mount Airy, has faced drug charges in the past — but he’s straightened up,  ... MORE

VIDEO: Social Justice and Its Critics

Supreme Court Makes Ruling In Favor Of Private Property

Government no longer free to cause flooding.      Supreme Court boosted property rights Tuesday, ruling unanimously government is not automatically exempt from liability when it causes flooding. In an Arkansas case, the justices said there is no automatic exemption from the Constitution's takings clause in the Fifth Amendment --      ... MORE

Ira Stoll: Why AT&T's CEO Wants Higher Taxes

They a lot of business with the U.S. government.            AT&T customers, pay attention: your phone company is trying to raise your rates. No, not your phone rates: your tax rates. And therein lies a story. If federal campaign contributions are any guide, the CEO and chairman of AT&T, Randall Stephenson, is, or was, a solid Republican. In         ... MORE 

Katie Kieffer: Push The Fed Over The Cliff

Stop worrying about the ‘fiscal cliff.’    Spending cuts would feel therapeutic after watching Standard & Poor's and Egan-Jones downgrade our credit rating and seeing President Obama add $6 trillion to the national debt. The way to avert another recession and massive inflation is to eliminate the unconstitutional Federal Reserve. There are   ... MORE