What happened to the right to be left alone? Earlier this week, the federal government announced that the Air Force might be dispatching drones to a backyard near you. The stated purpose of these spies in the sky is to assist local police to find missing persons or kidnap victims, or to chase bad guys. If the drone operator sees you doing anything of interest ... MORE
by Michelle Malkin. The stench of Chicago cronyism over the White House just got fouler. Inhale this: A shadowy $10 billion Obamacare agency with zero oversight just awarded first lady Michelle Obama’s pet patient-dumping scheme at the University of Chicago Medical Center a $5.9 million taxpayer-funded grant. It will enable Mrs. Obama’s cronies to build a ... MORE
Bankrupt state serves as a warning to the rest of America. I was reminded of that last week when I heard from Sergei Shevchuk, a reader who was flying from Los Angeles to San Francisco on Delta Air Lines. "I was pleasantly surprised when an officer advised me not to take out my laptop and liquids and to keep my shoes and jacket on," he told me. "They said they've been ... MORE
by Sheldon Richman. Much is made of how President Obama’s position on same-sex marriage has “evolved” to an endorsement of legalization. One hopes his position on the atrocity called the “war on drugs” is evolving. It’s not really a war on drugs. It’s a war on people, most of whom have committed no violence or other aggression against person or ... MORE
Could scientists know more than politicians? I'll admit, I found it a little weird to see this all over the news of the multiple sclerosis world. I kind of thought we already pretty much knew that marijuana helped with certain MS symptoms. I guess the big news here is that this was a well-run, rigorous (albeit small) study. In this study, published in the ... MORE
Libertarians take heart, Rand Paul rises. As Representative Ron Paul, a 76-year-old Texan, slows down his presidential campaign, libertarians are looking for their next champion. But their search will be short. Over the past two years, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, the candidate’s charismatic son, has established himself as a favorite ... MORE
Do you really want to surrender your fate to politicians? When my wife was a liberal, she complained that libertarian reasoning is coldhearted. Since markets produce winners and losers -- and many losers did nothing wrong -- market competition is cruel. It must seem so. President Obama used the word "fair" in his last State of the Union address ... MORE
A good reason for taxpayers to go postal. The US Postal Service is so mired in debt that nothing can save it from going bust — but the Senate is trying to dump a $33.7 billion bailout in its lap anyway. Against the Postal Service’s wishes. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe did something brave last year: He tried to bring USPS into the age of instant electronic ... MORE