Tim Brown: Ignorance & Mismanagement At DHS

Fast and Furious report is revealing.     As Homeland Secretary Janet “Big Sis” Napolitano faces mounting pressure to answer for DHS’ large solicitations and purchases of ammunition over the past year, the second of two reports looking at who is to blame in the gunrunning scheme known as Operation Fast and Furious is painting DHS   ... MORE

Minimum Wage Hike Means Fewer Jobs Can Be Available

Economics 101:  Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts says the minimum wage should be $22 an hour. As is always the case, the urge to help will create more problems than it alleviates. The usual response to such nonsense is that if government can make lives better by establishing a minimum wage of $X per hour, then why not      ... MORE

VIDEO: Dr. Tibor Machan On Philosophy And Reason

Soaring Social Security Disability Rolls Headed For Collapse

Build it and they will come.     America's unemployment rate has come down significantly from its peak of 10 percent in late 2009. That may seem to suggest a steady improvement in the employment picture, but the impression is misleading. We recently pointed out that workers age 25 to 54 are experiencing a jobs depression that has gotten   ... MORE

Thomas Sowell - Can It Happen Here?

Legalized theft in America is more subtle.     The decision of the government in Cyprus to simply take money out of people's bank accounts there sent shock waves around the world. People far removed from that small island nation had to wonder: "Can this happen here?" The economic repercussions of having people feel that their money is not safe   ... MORE

Mark Thornton: Nullify The War On Drugs

The marriage of two liberty concepts.  Public opinion now favors the outright legalization of marijuana with nearly three-out-of-four adults in favor of legalizing medical marijuana. These numbers should continue to grow, because the polls exhibit a type of “generation effect,” in that people are not changing their minds as they   ... MORE

Paul Brown: The Semantics Of Gun Control

Same weapons can be for assault or defense.      Since the SenateJudiciary Committee passed Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s “assault weapons” ban March 14, a fitting question might be, what is an “assault weapon”? A term that originated in the 1980s, it was popularized after the original “assault weapons” ban in 1994. “Assault weapon” is now ls that would be more accurately described as “defense weapons.”     ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Death By Drones

Brady Dennis: FDA To Roll Out New Cigar Regulations

Government continues to reduce the people's options.   Nearly four years after it began regulating cigarettes, the Food and Drug Administration is poised to extend its reach to a broader range of tobacco products. At the top of that list: cigars, which have experienced a boom in recent years even as cigarette sales have declined, in part    ... MORE

26 Big Gov Republicans Vote For Internet Sales Tax

by Daniel Horowitz.  Early Saturday morning, the Senate adopted its first concurrent budget resolution in four years.  Democrats cleverly made sure to hand out enough hall passes to vulnerable red state senators so they could vote against the $1 trillion tax increase, while ensuring that it ultimately passed 50-49.  Senators Baucus, Begich, Hagan, and  ... MORE

VIDEO: Rand Paul - Congress Is Ten Years Behind America

Obama's Tyranny: Petty Or Something More Sinister

by Matt Holzmann.   Last week, headlines informed us that, because of the Sequester, the FAA will be reducing the number of Air Traffic Controllers and closing 149 control towers completely. Earlier, the Department of Homeland Security released hundreds of illegal aliens awaiting deportation because they could not afford to hold them ... MORE