World's Richest Man Cashes In On Obamaphone Giveaway

Top Obama donor supplies 'Obamaphones' to the poor.   A Mexican telecom mogul who holds the title of world's richest man, and one of President Obama's top donors are both getting even richer from the U.S. government program that supplies so-called "Obamaphones" to the poor. Carlos Slim, who has an estimated net worth of $70   ... MORE

Stella Paul: So This IS What "God Damn America" Looks Like

Jeremiah Wright watches dreams come true. Four years ago, our media overlords assured us that President Empty Chair was really Candidate Empty Pew -- a parishioner who sat for 20 years in Reverend Jeremiah Wright's nutty, hate-mongering church and never heard a single word. "God bless America?  No, no, no!  God d*mn America!" thundered      ... MORE

J Tucker: Regulators Are Destroying Your Home Appliances

Say goodbye to automatic dishwashers that work.    Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem, the ebook of the week in the Laissez Faire Club, is a story about a government that hates, fears, and bans technology precisely because it wants to keep the people enslaved in a primitive state of being. Preposterous right? Wrong: this is going on every day right  ... MORE

Steve Baker: Cell Phones And College Tuition

Why do cell phones get cheaper while tuition gets higher?   In 1978, my college tuition was about $1,200 per year.  In 1985 my first cell phone also cost me $1,200, and its sole function was that it could make phone calls -- at about a buck per minute.  (Motorola's first cell phone hit the market at $3,995!) But something interesting happened to    ... MORE

VIDEO: Why U.S. Health Care Costs More Than Canada's


It is why a Mercedes Benz is more expensive than a Toyota corolla.

Thomas Sowell: Race Cards

A powerful tactic to combat independent thought. If you are sick and tired of seeing politicians and others playing the race card, or if you are just disgusted with the grossly dishonest way racial issues in general are portrayed, then you should get a copy of Ann Coulter's new book, "Mugged." Its subtitle is: "Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama." ... MORE

Greg Pollowitz: Al Gore No Longer Investing In Green Tech

One loser identifies another.    Via The Street. Why does Al Gore hate America’s green-tech industry and love China and Bain Capital? When Al Gore talks, people listen. Just ask the folks who hand out Academy Awards and Nobel Peace Prizes. Al Gore also talks to investors. Since 2007, the former Vice President in Bill Clinton’s administration has been   ... MORE

VIDEO: The Case To Re-elect Barack Obama In 2012

Shikha Dalmia: Big Labor Is Going For Broke In Michigan

Making unions more powerful than the legislature. We've seen Gov. Scott Walker's battle in Wisconsin and the Chicago Teachers Union strike next door. Now in Michigan comes another Midwestern political showdown that will carry enormous implications for the role of unions in American life. The Michigan Supreme Court recently approved  ... MORE

Cop Killing Of Innocent Man Deemed Justified By State

Police go to wrong house, kill man protecting home.    WFTV obtained a final report on Tuesday from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement that outlines a fatal deputy-involved shooting that happened in July in Lake County. It comes two months after Andrew Scott was shot and killed when deputies showed up at the wrong apartment  ... MORE

Government's Own Numbers Crunchers See Collapse Ahead

by Ralph R. Reiland.    The way the federal government runs things is already bad enough, but it's officially projected to get only worse, much worse, in the years ahead according to the government's own number crunchers. In fiscal year 2011 -- October 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011-- the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that the federal        ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Trickle Down And Tax Cuts

Tickle down demagoguery from the left.    Dr. Thomas Sowell's "'Trickle Down Theory' and 'Tax Cuts for the Rich'" has just been published by the Hoover Institution. Having read this short paper, the conclusion you must reach is that the term "trickle down theory" is simply a tool of charlatans and political hustlers. Sowell states that "no such    ... MORE

VIDEO: FOX NEWS: Useless Trampling Of Civil Liberties

Matt Welch: Four More Years Of War

No matter who wins, we will stay overextended overseas. It’s hard to remember through the fog of constant war, but the 2008 presidential election was a contest between two candidates who were propelled into their nominations by the anti-war vote. Barack Obama, we remember. He was the one who opposed the Iraq war in real    ... MORE