John Stossel: Charity Begins With Wealth Creation

Wealth must be created before it is given.  Charity -- helping people who have trouble helping themselves -- is a good thing two times over. It's good for the beneficiary and good for the donor, too. Stephen Post's fine book, "The Hidden Gifts of Helping," reveals that 76 percent of Americans say that helping others is what makes them most happy. Giving money  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - ObamaCare and Religion

Dave Gahary: Government Crosses New Privacy Line

Feds collect data on those not suspected of crimes.   Documents obtained under Freedom of Information Act requests and interviews conducted with officials at numerous government agencies by The Wall Street Journal uncovered the behind-closed-doors creation this year of “a government dragnet, sweeping up millions of records about U.S.    ... MORE

Naked Passenger Images Provide Laughs For TSA Officers

by Paul Joseph Watson. A former TSA screener turned blogger who is now causing embarrassment for the federal agency has revealed that TSA officers routinely laugh at and make fun of passengers’ nude body scanner images in back rooms. In a blog entitled Taking Sense Away, the anonymous ex-TSA worker reveals how he, “Witnessed light   ... MORE

VIDEO: The Role of Profit

The Three Not So 'Wise Men Of Washington, D.C.

These politicians are cooking the books.    Washington politicians are scaremongering that if no deal is reached between President Obama and congressional Republicans, taxes will go up on all of us January 1, when Bush tax rates expire. Nonsense. Most people have their taxes withheld gradually during the year. The president has the       ... MORE

Daren Jonescu: The Case Against Public Education

Salvaging a civilization.   If public education is allowed to survive, all efforts to resuscitate the inert husk of modern civilization will fail.  It is time to unravel the most wasteful and destructive entitlement program of all.  Cancer cells do not divide into healthy cells.  A corrupted, power-intoxicated political class will not willingly raise a freedom-loving,   ... MORE

Half The Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong

by Ronald Bailey.     Dinosaurs were cold-blooded. Increased K-12 spending and lower pupil/teacher ratios boost public school student outcomes. Most of the DNA in the human genome is junk. Saccharin causes cancer and a high fiber diet prevents it. Stars cannot be bigger than 150 solar masses. In the past half-century, all of the foregoing facts     ... MORE

Who Will Defend Capitalism If Not The Capitalists?

Cowardly CEOs throw capitalism over fiscal cliff. The fiscal cliff is exposing some brassy hypocrisy on Wall Street. Eager to score points with the White House, one CEO after another is throwing capitalism over the edge. Remarks by leading captains of industry over the past few weeks have sounded alarmingly anti-market. Some of these         ... MORE

Video: F A Hayek - Arbitrary Wealth Redistribution

Nathan Lewis: 40 Years Of Floating Money

40 years of the average worker getting poorer. The reason we have floating currencies today is to enable economic management via currency manipulation. Central banks attempt to guide macroeconomic factors like unemployment, economic growth, interest rates, inflation and so forth by jiggering the currency. This idea is very old,    ... MORE

People Are Buying Guns And Ammo For A Reason

by Neil Snyder.  It's 2:00 a.m. You are at home in your bed sound asleep. Your wife is sleeping beside you, and your children are asleep in their rooms down the hall. The muffled sound of a window breaking interrupts your slumber.  You're groggy and you wonder if it was just a dream, so you lie there quietly and listen.  A few seconds later, you hear other     ... MORE