John Stossel: Shopping Around For A Better Life

Thanks, California!    Thanks for your monstrous spending and absurd regulatory overreach! America needs you. We need Connecticut and Illinois, too! We need you the way we needed the Soviet Union, as models of failure, to warn us what happens if we believe those who say, "Government can." Moving to California was once the dream for many Americans.  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Environmental Scare Stories

Mike Riggs: Federal Court Rules In Favor Of Federal DEA

Will continue to classify marijuana with heroin.  The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for Washington, D.C. ruled today in favor of the DEA's decision to keep marijuana a Schedule I drug--a classification for substances that are highly addictive and have no widely accepted medical benefits. "On the merits,  the question before the court is    ... MORE

Obama Promises A Big Push On Climate Change

by Ronald Bailey.     Yesterday, President Barack Obama devoted the biggest single section of his second inaugural address to the problem of climate change. He has clearly decided to make confronting climate change a central objective of his second term. In his second inaugural address the president declared, “We will respond to the threat of climate     ... MORE

VIDEO: Cop Arrests Citizen For Lawfully Carried Handgun


Public servants or public masters? Frightened cop quick to use force against compliant citizen.

Mike Ciandella: Matt Damon's Anti-Fracking Movie Flops

Bad investment for United Arab Emirates.   Matt Damon’s much hyped anti-fracking film “Promised Land” has failed to make the impact that its producers and environmental groups had hoped for. As of January 20, “Promised Land” has raked in a whopping total of $7,542,000 since it opened on December 28, according to Box Office Mojo. According  ... MORE

Rand Paul Tells Hillary Clinton: "I Would Have Fired You"

by Alexis Levinson.    Republican Sen. Rand Paul said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been negligent in conducting her job, and said that if he were president, he would have relieved her of her post. Paul said that the fact that she was not aware of the requests of more security for the U.S. Embassy in Libya constituted “a failure of leadership” and said it    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Do Gun Control Laws Control Guns?

They do not control crime.    The gun control controversy is only the latest of many issues to be debated almost solely in terms of fixed preconceptions, with little or no examination of hard facts. Media discussions of gun control are dominated by two factors: the National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment. But the over-riding   ... MORE

Sin Tax Wars! 60.9% Of All Smokes In NY Go Untaxed

High taxes push consumers toward smugglers.    With all the nonsense that’s been going on in the Empire State of late – especially the Governor’s successful gun rantings - I’d begun to worry that New York was doomed for mediocrity. But for better or worse, you just can’t keep the government of this state down. If we can’t lead in freedom,   ... MORE

VIDEO: Why The Constitution Had To Be Destroyed


A speech from Professor Thomas DiLorenzo.

Aaron Klein: Homeland Security Is Hoarding Ammo

Scarcity created for everyone else. Will the U.S. soon face a critical situation in which the federal government– primarily the Department of Homeland Security – possesses an ammunition surplus while local and state authorities face ammunition shortages and backlogs in purchasing more rounds? Current trends could find the federal government with a  ... MORE

Welfare State Swells During Obama's First Term

Food stamp recipients increased 11,113 per day.   One way to mark the legacy of a presidency is to tally statistics, and at least one stat is not very flattering for President Obama: the number of Americans on food stamps has grown by 11,133 people every day during his first term. In 2009, when Obama took office, recipients of SNAP       ... MORE

VIDEO: Is America Too Big?

Melissa Gira Grant: The War On Sex Workers

An unholy alliance of feminists, cops, and conservatives.   On August 30, a 19-year-old woman in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was arrested after a prospective client called 911 on her. He claimed she raised her fee for services after their initial online contact. The cops took her away in handcuffs. There’s nothing particularly unusual about this story,  ... MORE