VIDEO: Surveillance After The Boston Attack


Do more cameras fight terrorism or violate or privacy rights?

Jacob Sullum: Too Stoned To Drive?

Treating pot smokers as menaces even when they're not. Last week, when the Colorado General Assembly passed groundbreaking legislation aimed at taxing and regulating marijuana, it also passed a bill redefining when cannabis consumers are considered too stoned to drive. The revised rule seems consistent with the voter-approved   ... MORE

The Obama IRS Nightmare Is Just Getting Started

by Ed Rogers, Washington Post.   Your government, as currently administered by President Obama, doesn’t like the word “patriot.”  If you associate yourself with an organization using that word, you may be investigated and prosecuted. Under Obama, government employees think they are doing what their superiors want them to do when they  ... MORE

Daniel J. Flynn: Manny Pacquiao Vs The IRS

Enough to make taxpayers cry, "no mas."  Manny Pacquiao takes on his toughest opponent in his next fight: the Internal Revenue Service. Roy Jones, Evander Holyfield, and Floyd Mayweather all fought the most powerful three-letters in boxing and lost. Manny Pacquiao, a Filipino who doesn’t possess their home field disadvantage, has already     ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Voting With Our Feet

Minimum Wage Legislation & The Small Business Scam

by Michael Saltsman.     A group calling itself the Small Business Majority (SBM) recently released a survey to support its argument that two-thirds of small businesses support a hike in the minimum wage. It’s a counterintuitive result: After all, if small businesses don’t mind a minimum wage hike, then pursuing the policy should be a    ... MORE

VIDEO: Federal Food Stamp Spending Since 1950

Redskins Owner Vows To Never Change The Name

by Chris Lingebach.    “We’ll never change the name. It’s simple. NEVER.” That’s what Redskins owner Daniel Snyder told USA Today Sports Thursday, with the added caveat, “you can use caps.” Snyder putting his foot down, so to speak, may be what it takes to bring some finality to a debate that’s raged on all offseason over the offensive nature of ... MORE

Matt Welch: Benghazi Hall Of Shame

On death, lies and an obscure YouTube trailer.     Yesterday's dramatic congressional testimony about the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. interests in Benghazi, Libya convincingly corroborated what was widely reported within days of the attack: that senior American officials on the ground knew immediately,     ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - TSA (Thugs Standing Around)

Republicans Are Refusing To Appoint Death Panel Members

Another ObamaCare impediment.     One of the most politically intense fights over the Affordable Care Act was over the creation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, infamously dubbed a "death panel" by Republicans during the 2010 elections. On Thursday, Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch      ... MORE

VIDEO: Death, Lies And A Scapegoat Video


Public servant or public master?