VIDEO: John Stossel - What Liberates People?

Ralph R. Reiland: We're Going Backward

Obama keeps saying we're moving forward.     They say the economy is moving in the right direction, that we should stay the course, that it takes time to pull out of the recession that began in late 2007. In fact, things are getting worse. The economy was creating 153,000 new jobs per month last year. That dropped during the first seven months ... MORE

Walter E Williams - Academic Dishonesy

Preparation for failure? Many of the nation's colleges and universities have become cesspools of indoctrination, intolerance, academic dishonesty and an "enlightened" form of racism. This is a decades-old trend. In a 1991 speech, Yale President Benno Schmidt warned: "The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption ... MORE

VIDEO: Buckyballs vs Consumer Safety Commission

Bruce Bialosky: Crony Capitalism Running Rampant

No limits to political arrogance.    “Government ’help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.” That is what Ayn Rand has to say about government involvement in the world of business, but the full extent of this practice is difficult to nail down ... MORE

Raquel Okyay: Golden State Devalues Gun Rights

California's political thugs seek to shred basic rights. We know America is in big trouble when power corrupted law enforcement and California’s liberal state legislature ban together to create new laws that regulate, pre-punish, and harass law abiding gun owners. In the name of safety and protection, lawmakers being obsessed with violating    ... MORE

New Hampshire Jury Exercises Its Nullification Powers

Empowered jury just says 'no' -- to the law.     In a developing story that has hit Reason.com, an NH jury has acquitted a man facing a felony for growing cannabis! It’s our first real-life case of jury nullification here in NH and the jury nullification law hasn’t even gone into effect yet. Kudos to the judge for reading a fair and easy-to-understand jury  ... MORE

Chicago Strike Shows Why We Need School Choice

by Star Parker. It says something about today’s public education reality that the two sides in the teachers’ union dispute in Chicago are the union and the mayor. Allegedly the point of schools is to educate children. But which side in this dispute has sole interest in children and their parents? The answer, of course, is neither side.Unions are about   ... MORE

VIDEO: Social Security As A Wealth Redistribution


Walter E Williams explains Social Security is really a handout.

A. Randazzo: How Quantitative Easing Helps The Rich

And soaks the rest of us.    The decision is in: Unlimited quantitative easing. That was the announcement from the Federal Open Market Committee this afternoon, launching a third round of purchases of securities in a bid to boost the economy and reduce unemployment. This time, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and crew are     ... MORE

Washington Times: Saving Gas, Wasting Lives

Costly consequences of the new fuel-efficiency standards. President Obama’s latest fuel-efficiency decree means consumers will have to turn in their SUVs and pickup trucks for tiny, European-style city cars within the next few years. It’s also likely to produce another, more costly consequence: a lot more death on America’s roads. Last month,  ... MORE

VIDEO: The Message of Freedom in One Minute

Debra J. Saunders: Price Of Obama's 'College Affordability'

Soaring debt encouraged by the president. "No family should have to set aside a college acceptance letter because they don't have the money," President Barack Obama told the Democratic National Convention as he accepted his party's nomination in Charlotte, N.C., this month. That sentence -- key in Obama's "college affordability" agenda        ... MORE

Drug Sentences Driving Federal Prison Population Growth

by Phillip Smith.     In a report released Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that growth in the federal prison population is outstripping the Bureau of Prisons' (BOP) rated capacity to house prisoners and that the bulge in federal prisoners is largely attributable to drug prisoners and longer sentences for them. That growing     ... MORE