Stephen Moore: What Would Milton Friedman Say?

Unlimited immigration and a welfare state don't mix.    One of the fascinating sideshows of the immigration debate within the Republican Party and the conservative movement is the debate about where the late Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman stood on the issue. The blogosphere is abuzz with varying interpretations of what    ... MORE

Ralph R. Reiland: A Government Against Liberty

Public servants or public masters?  Let’s say you’re like most people and believe the federal government has become too large, too wasteful, too crooked and too intrusive. Now imagine the morning mail arrives from the money-bleeding U.S. Postal Service ($16 billion in the hole last year) and there’s a letter from the Internal Revenue   ... MORE

David Harsanyi: Undermining Our Most Basic Right

This is what happens when you fear free speech.      Perhaps these Obama administration scandals (popularly referred to as "so-called scandals" in liberal media circles) lack the explosive drama of a Watergate and the entertainment value of Bill Clinton's peccadilloes, but for those who are less obsessed with the political consequences and more  ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Congressional Testimony


Thomas Sowell on affirmative action and judicial activism.

David Beckworth: The Low-Interest-Rate Blues

The Fed continues to make deficit spending easier.   One of the most insidious developments in the economic crisis has been the low-interest-rate environment. Short-term interest rates have been stuck near 0 percent for four years, while long-term interest rates have declined to historically low levels. These low interest rates have created   ... MORE

When Congress Voted Down The Fourth Amendment

by Radley Balko.    Earlier this month, President Obama nominated North Carolina Rep. Mel Watt to head up the Federal Housing Finance Authority. Here's a fun little nugget about Watt that has little relevance to the job he's seeking, but has lots of relevance to the current debates over leaks, press investigations, wiretapping, and such: Back in  ... MORE

VIDEO: Government Gone Mad - Demand Answers

Bob Unruh: States React To Fed Agenda With Nullification

Fighting back against government overreach.  On the heels of a recent poll that said 29 percent of registered voters believe an “armed revolution” may be needed in America to restore liberties, a second poll said Americans already have figured out a solution – reject federal laws that are unconstitutional. Now it appears on issues ranging from  ... MORE

Zach Weissmueller: Who Decides How You Die?

A question of self-ownership.   You may have the right to control your own life, but what about your own death? This is a question facing several states across the U.S., including, most recently, Vermont and Montana. While physician aid-in-dying, or assisted suicide, has been legal in Oregon for almost two decades and legal in Washington for    ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: An Assault On Freedom Of The Press

Government's response to inconvenient truths.    The firestorm commenced by the revelation of the execution of a search warrant on the personal email server of my Fox News colleague James Rosen continues to rage, and the conflagration engulfing the First Amendment continues to burn; and it is the Department of Justice itself that is fanning  ... MORE

Barry Farber: Lois Lerner Is The New Chutzpa Champ

Move over Sweet Daddy Grace.   Chutzpa is busting out all over. “Chutzpa” is the Yiddish word for a quality possessed by gutsy characters who bristle with unspeakable effrontery, the kind of person who could walk through a revolving door behind you and come out ahead of you. It takes chutzpa, for example, to shoot both parents and then    ... MORE

VIDEO: Stossel - Restricting Competition Through Licensing