California Bill Would LImit Firings of Medical Pot Users

Californians who use medical marijuana outside of work would be protected from job dismissal due to pot use under a bill that been introduced by State Sen. Mark Leno, (D-San Francisco). he bill, SB129, would make it illegal for an employer to consider either a worker's status as a registered patient or a positive drug test when making hiring and firing decisions.   MORE

Man Versus The State

Economist Walter E Williams reflects on his long career battling big government and advocating for the moral superiority of liberty.

On May 29, 1963, Private Walter E. Williams of the U.S. Army's 30th Infantry Division wrote a letter to President John F. Kennedy denouncing the pervasive racism of the American government ...  MORE

VIDEO: Ayn Rand - The Pursuit of Happiness

Ayn Rand elaborates on Thomas Jefferson's famous phrase.

Overlords and The Internet

After Egypt, will U.S. get 'Internet Kill Swith'?
With reports of Egypt's government completing shutting down the Internet  in the country, talk about an "Internet kill switch" bill in the U.S. has reemerged. Could it happen here?  The bill in question is the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010, a cyber-security measure introduced in June by Sen. Joseph Lieberman.  MORE

CATO Institue: The Case for Gridlock

No action is better than bad action.
In the wake of the 2010 elections, President Obama declared that voters did not give a mandate to gridlock. His statement reflects over a century of Progressive hostility to the inefficient and slow system of government created by the American Framers.  MORE

Economics: The Triumphant Return of Friedrich Hayek

NEWS FLASH: Government spending does not stimulate economic growth
Last year the consensus opinion was that we are all Keynesians now. Virtually everyone in the commentariat believed that John Maynard Keynes’s solution for the Great Depression—heavy government spending to resuscitate the economy—   MORE

VIDEO: Porker of the Month January 2011

No budget deficit is gonna ruin the spending plans of these three.

Jeffrey Lord: Animal Farm Comes to Arizona

 

"Some animals are more equal than others."  -- George Orwell in Animal Farm

Talk about irony.
For the most unexpected of reasons, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a supporter of Obamacare, may well become a popular symbol of the reason to repeal it.  MORE

Andrew Napolitano - Central Bank Tyranny

Identified early on as a "den of vipers" by Andrew Jackson, our central bank has not disappointed.

David Harsanyi: Abortion, Science and Reason

Is it time for a new debate over abortion?
 
Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia doctor, is accused of killing babies with scissors after botching late-term abortions -- among hundreds of other hideous acts. The doctor, it was reported, appeared confused by the charges against him ...  MORE

State of the Union: Government Spying

The U. S. Justice Department wants Internet service providers and cell phone companies to be required to hold on to records for a longer time.   MORE 

Ten Reason to Support Herman Cain

Even those conservatives who will not vote for Herman Cain to win the Republican nomination should hope that he does run -- and that his candidacy lasts a long time during the nomination process, perhaps even succeeding.   MORE

Michelle Malkin: Cash for Education Clunkers

"We're going to have to out-educate other countries," President Obama urged this week. How? By out-spending them, of course! It's the same old quack cure for America's fat and failing government-run schools monopoly. The one-trick ponies at the White House call their academic improvement agenda "targeted investing" for "winning the future." Truth in advertising: Get ready to fork over more cash for Education Clunkers.  MORE