Losing our liberties in trade for what security? I find it very disconcerting that thirty-six hours (as of this writing) after the Boston terrorist bombing, law enforcement and counterterrorism officials are running hotlines and calls for "anyone seen with an unusually heavy, dark bag" in the Boston area. A $50,000 reward has been offered for ... MOREPamela Geller: The Epic Failure Of Our Intel Agencies
Losing our liberties in trade for what security? I find it very disconcerting that thirty-six hours (as of this writing) after the Boston terrorist bombing, law enforcement and counterterrorism officials are running hotlines and calls for "anyone seen with an unusually heavy, dark bag" in the Boston area. A $50,000 reward has been offered for ... MOREJacob Sullum: Checking The Logic Of Background Checks
Thwarting criminals at the gun shop. Urging Congress to expand background checks for gun buyers, President Obama claims the current system has "kept more than 2 million dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun" during the last two decades. If you understand why that claim is misleading, you will understand why background checks ... MOREPoverty Pros & The Crony Capitalists Who Love Them
by Bill Freeza. Yes, it looks like a wedding announcement out of The Onion, but when it comes to making a killing off the never-ending “War on Poverty,” the marriage of convenience between the financial services industry and federal bureaucrats is no laughing matter. The idea that government welfare programs could eliminate poverty, rather ... MOREVictor Davis Hanson: 1984 + 29
The Obama revolution. Imagine if, during the campaign of 2008, someone had written the following: “If Barack Obama is elected president, then each year from now on the federal budget will be a trillion dollars in the red. He will pile up in two terms more debt than all previous presidents combined. Interest rates will stay at near zero; 7.6 percent ... MOREJohn Stossel: A Post-Post Office World
A system of cumbersome inefficiency. Even parts of government that look like a business never get run with
the efficiency of a business. Just look at the post office. They buy commercials and tout their services the way private businesses do. They offer a service that customers want. But a real business can't get away with losing ... MOREGarry Reed: Man Facing 81 Years Seeks Jury Nullification
Pot dealer punished for refusing to rat out friends. Today is Day One in Rich Paul's fight against legal prosecution for an act that the libertarians at CopBlock call "victimless actions." Paul, a political activist in New Hampshire, is charged with selling
marijuana and faces up to 81 years in jail on felony charges. Paul had a chance to get the ... MOREThomas Sowell: Fact-Free Crusades
Cracking down on law-abiding citizens. Amid all the heated, emotional advocacy of gun control, have you ever heard even one person present convincing hard evidence that tighter gun control laws have in fact reduced murders? Think about all the states, communities within states, as well as foreign countries, that have either tight gun control laws ... MOREWarming Advocates Struggle To Explain ... No Warming
by Rick Moran. We've known since Climategate and the emails from the East Anglia climate center that warming advocates have been well aware of the lack of rising temperatures on the earth since at least 2000. Now, confronted with irrefutable evidence from one of global warming's biggest boosters - NASA - scientists who have based their careers and ... MOREMike Riggs: Three Drug War Programs Your Taxes Pay For
Torture, murder and terror. When's the last time you heard someone argue that we need to raise taxes to fund torture? Or to pay for violent paramilitary raids on peaceful U.S. citizens? Or to incentivize extrajudicial killings carried out by our own government, yes, but also by a neighboring country? Probably never. As every good citizen knows, taxes are ... MORE
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