Walter E Williams: Middle East Democracy

We should mind our own business.  Here's the first paragraph of my last year's column "Democracy Is Impossible": "After Moammar Gadhafi's downfall as Libya's tyrannical ruler, politicians and 'experts' in the U.S. and elsewhere, including French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, are saying that his death marked the end of 42 years of tyranny and the        ... MORE

Brooks & Watkins: How The Welfare State Stole Christmas

The drive for guilt over happiness.    “We Could End Homelessness With The Money Americans Spend On Christmas Decorations,” announces a headline from Think Progress blogger Adam Peck. So far as we can tell, Americans haven’t exactly been taking to the streets demanding that people trade Christmas ornaments for welfare programs,      ... MORE

VIDEO: Santa Claus arrested by Capitol Police


Arrested for being nice. Passing out chalk to children will not be tolerated.

Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene

Observations on life as it is.        When I was growing up, an older member of the family used to say, "What you don't know would make a big book." Now that I am an older member of the family, I would say to anyone, "What you don't know would fill more books than the Encyclopedia Britannica." At least half of our society's troubles   ... MORE

Jeffrey T. Kuhner: Why The Left Hates Guns

Armed citizens a bulwark against state power.     Liberals have declared war on gun rights. Following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., gun-control zealots have seized on the murder of 20 children and 6 adults to push their longtime goal of rolling back the Second Amendment. The bodies of the victims  ... MORE

Speech Codes: Biggest Scandal On College Campuses Today

by Greg Lukianoff.     Today’s conventional wisdom seems to be that university speech codes banning “offensive” expression on campus are a distant relic of the heyday of political correctness in the 1980s and 90s. But in truth, speech codes—university policies prohibiting expression protected by the First Amendment in society at large—are nearly  ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Why Drugs Should Be Legalized

Media Fabricates Test To Demonize Pot And Driving

by Michael Suede.  Fox News Denver recently did a story on the effects of driving high on cannabis.  In the process of doing the story, they had people drive a video game simulator to test the effects of impairment. However, Fox rigged the driving simulator to force crashes so they could bias the story against cannabis users. One of the test participants  ... MORE

Obama Announces New Wave Of Proposed Regulations

by Dave Boyer.   After taking criticism for missing an October deadline, the Obama administration Friday released its list of proposed government-wide regulations that it plans to consider in the next year. The administration put out its notice, called the unified regulatory agenda, online around 3 p.m. on the Friday before Christmas, after most   ... MORE

VIDEO: Remy - I Saw Daddy Pat Down Santa Claus


(A Very TSA Christmas Song)

Douglas French: Down And Out In California

Golden State is fast losing its luster.     Gas in Vegas is a dollar cheaper a gallon than in the Golden State, or so a friend and recent LA transplant tells me. He went on to say the top tax rate in California is over 13%, while, of course, Nevada has no state income tax. Over dinner at Del Frisco’s, he explained how industries are being ruined by         ... MORE

David Harsanyi: The Auto Bailout Failure Is Now Complete

Another big-time loser for taxpayers. You may recall that during the presidential election, the Treasury Department refused requests by General Motors to unload the government's stake in the giant automaker. Taxpayers had sunk $50 billion into a union bailout in 2009 and were now proud owners of 26.5 percent of the struggling    ... MORE

Steven Greenhut: California Lawmakers Target Gun Rights

An opportunity to tangle gun rights with red tape.     It took only days before California’s lefty legislators reacted to the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy with a fusillade of bills designed to take California closer to Democratic leaders’ unstated but obvious goal: making it essentially illegal for citizens to own firearms in    ... MORE

Leonard Peikoff: Christmas Should Be More Commercial

Santa Claus is a thoroughly American invention.    Christmas in America is an exuberant display of human ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of life. Yet all of these are castigated as “materialistic”; the real meaning of the holiday, we are told, is assorted Nativity tales and altruist injunctions (e.g., love thy neighbor)   ... MORE