Bob Taylor: Jackie Robinson And Political Correctness

Society is an ever-evolving process.   Jackie Robinson did more than simply change the face of baseball when he broke the race barrier in the sport sixty-six years ago. Robinson changed the course of history. He opened the gates for African American athletes to compete in all team sports, not just baseball and, in the process, he was also a major catalyst in    ... MORE

VIDEO: How The Anti-Bully Movement Hurts Kids

Robert Higgs: ABC's For Today's Public School Students

A is for Alzheimer’s Disease.    If you eat lots of vegetables and floss your teeth, you will live a long time and get this condition as your reward. B is for Baconator. If thou shouldst ever eat one, thou shalt surely die. C is for Crumbling Infrastructure, an incantation government officials mutter when they want to spend more of the public’s money   ... MORE

Matthew Walther: Rand The Realist

The Kentucky senator is his own man.   Rand Paul’s shirts always seem to fit. Look at almost any picture of him: The jacket lapel is always touching the tip of his collar, if only just barely. His untamed curls notwithstanding, he looks professional, put together, serious. The junior senator from Kentucky wasn’t wearing a jacket when I sat down     ... MORE

Tibor R. Machan: Corruption Of Individual Rights

Now we have the 'right' to coerce.   Whenever a good idea surfaces, there will surely be many who will try to hitch their wagon to it filled with corrupt versions that aim to serve numerous purposes having little to do with the original good idea. One example is the idea of individual natural human rights. Some simply disagree with the idea, like Jeremy  ... MORE

Charles C. W. Cooke: A Tax On Freedom

High taxes on guns and ammo punish the law-abiding.    ‘I’m not asking to take away people’s guns,” Maryland legislator Jon Cardin nervously told Politico this week. “I’m just saying that for an activity that is relatively dangerous, obviously, people who participate in that activity should pay the full costs of that activity.” America, witness a        ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Green Tyranny

Techdirt: Crusader Feinstein Looks To Limit More Options

This time it's violent video games.   Dianne Feinstein, whose post-Newtown assault weapons ban was defanged by Sen. Harry Reid before its inclusion in the Democrats' gun control bill, has decided to switch scapegoats. Now, she's determined to do something about violent video games, apparently unaware that the Supreme Court has already   ... MORE

Dana Loesch: When Tryanny Masquerades As Stupidity

The belief that criminals will abide gun laws.  When Democrats passed the assault weapons ban in 1994 it didn’t prevent further gun-related crime or stop the Columbine massacre. Connecticut’s own assault weapons ban did nothing to prevent Adam Lanza from committing theft (another crime) to illegally posses a gun that he used illegally. The small    ... MORE

VIDEO: Leading Politicians Out Of The Drug War

Jacob Sullum: Obama's Abuse Of Dead Children

The master opportunist strikes again.  "This is about doing the right thing for all the families who are here that have been torn apart by gun violence," President Obama declared on Monday, promoting his "common-sense gun safety reforms" in a speech at the University of Hartford, where the audience included parents of children who  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Tests And Tiger Moms

Inducing poverty with political correctness.   New York City's Stuyvesant High School is one of those all too rare public schools for intellectually outstanding students. Such students are often bored to death in schools where the work is geared to the lowest common denominator, and it is by no means uncommon for very bright   ... MORE