Getting a taste of our jury system. Until last week, I had managed all of my adult life to avoid jury duty. As a young adult in Topeka, Kan., I was never summoned. For my two decades living in Las Vegas, I was able to call in a couple times declaring economic hardship. Most of the time, I seemed to be off their radar screen. I always suspected it was ... MORE
The power to prosper. I have, earlier in my life, been simultaneously a
student, mother, employee, chauffeur, and
jack-of-all-family-related-trades, so I know how difficult it can be to
attend to all issues during a campaign season. However, it is especially concerning to me to hear women,
especially young women, announcing their intentions to ... MORE
Bogus green schemes harm Americans. More and more, daily decisions are made less by responsible citizens
than by nanny-state government, especially powerful, unelected,
unaccountable executive branch agencies in Washington. Among the worst
is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Under Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, EPA ... MORE
Inequality is a product of freedom. On TV, my Fox colleague Bill O'Reilly says, "The recession was brought on largely by greedy Wall Street corporations." Give me a break. Bill's smart. If he believes such things, we who care about freedom have done a poor job communicating economics. Blaming problems on "greed" is a mindless cliche. ... MORE 
by Luis San Vincente Portes. New Jersey's Democratic leaders are seeking to include on the 2013 ballot a
proposal to increase the minimum wage in the state from $7.25 to $8.25
per hour and to automatically tie it to further increases in the cost of
living. The initiative is founded on states’ ability to set a minimum
wage apart from the federal under the ... MORE
New ways to monitor the human livestock. The Thieves and Sexual Assailants are playing musical chairs with their porno-scanners. They’re shuffling carcinogenic backscatter X-ray machines out of larger airports, such as New York’s LaGuardia and JFK International, into smaller ones — but that doesn’t mean they’ve renounced their ... MORE
Don't attempt to explain slavery to children. Jon Hubbard, a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, has a book, titled "Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative." Among its statements for which Hubbard has been criticized and disavowed by the Republican Party is, "The institution of slavery that the ... MORE
No profile in courage here. It was a little much when President Barack Obama said that he was
"offended" by the suggestion that his administration would try to
deceive the public about what happened in Benghazi. What has this man
not deceived the public about? Remember his pledge to cut the
deficit in half in his first term in office? This was followed by the ... MORE