Phil Gramm Ignores Fair Tax, Offers Plan For GOP Decline

by Louis Woodhill.    The July 10 edition of The Wall Street Journal contained an op-ed by former Texas Senator Phil Gramm entitled, “A GOP Game Plan for Tax Reform”. Unfortunately, his article could be more accurately named, “A GOP Game Plan for Losing the Next Two Elections.” Senator Gramm is a great guy who has made important      ... MORE

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John Ransom: Chevy Volt Heads For Fiery Crash

Another failure of central planning.        The good news for GM these days is that no one has been consumed in a fiery death due to engine compartment fires since the Chevy Volt was discovered to spontaneous combust after accidents shortly after production began. The bad news for the company is that while Chevy Volt sales in       ... MORE

Obama Siezes Control Of All American Communications

In the name of security, of course.    President Barack Obama quietly signed his name to an Executive Order on Friday, allowing the White House to control all private communications in the country in the name of national security. President Obama released his latest Executive Order on Friday, July 5, a 2,205-word statement offered   ...  MORE

Tax Dollars Spent To Organize Anti-Zimmerman Rallies

Look what Judicial Watch happened to find.     A conservative watchdog group accused the Justice Department of helping manage the "pressure campaign" last year against George Zimmerman in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, citing documents that show an obscure agency spent thousands assisting local demonstrations.  The   ... MORE

Victor Davis Hanson: Hate Thought

Self-appointed liberal referees will decide.   When do insensitive words destroy reputations? It all depends. Celebrity chef Paula Deen was dropped by her TV network, her publisher and many of her corporate partners after she testified in a legal deposition that she used the N-word some 30 years ago. The deposition was filed in a lawsuit against  ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - The Reality Of Multiculturalism

John Stossel - Overseas Meddling

You pay taxes?      You contributed to the $2 billion your government gave Egypt this year. And last year. And every year — for 30 years. Most of it went to Egypt's military. How's that worked out? Now our government will "cautiously" support anti-government rebels in Syria, even though some are openly allied with al-Qaida. Years before, we paid to     ... MORE

Arizona Sheriff Ordered To Return Seized Marijuana

Cops not allowed to confiscate medicine.   The Arizona Supreme Court is letting stand a lower court's ruling that the Yuma County sheriff must return marijuana seized from a woman with a California medical marijuana authorization honored by Arizona. The justices without comment on Monday declined to review a January ruling by the  ... MORE

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Why The White House Is Panicking About ObamaCare

by John Goodman.     Actors. Actresses. NFL football players. Baseball players. Librarians. Mayors. City councilmen. Members of AARP. The Obama administration is looking far and wide, leaving no stone unturned in a relentless search for…well…for help. Help with what? Help with getting people to enroll in health insurance plans this fall.      ... MORE

Lawsuit: Civil Asset Forfeiture Violates 5th Amendment

An attempt to thwart legalized theft by police.     Nelly Moreira was not there the night D.C. police seized her car. But every day for seven months she felt the loss as she commuted by bus to two jobs, all the while making payments on a 2005 Honda Accord she wasn’t sure she’d ever see again. Officers took the vehicle in March 2012, after pulling    ... MORE

Reason Magazine's 45 Enemies Of Freedom

Tyrants, despots, crackpots and crony capitalists.     In 2003, to celebrate 35 years of publishing a monthly magazine dedicated to Free Minds and Free Markets, reason named “35 Heroes of Freedom”—innovators, economists, singers, anti-communists, pornographers, professional athletes, and even the occasional politician who   ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Who Is Racist?

Just how old is Thomas Sowell?    I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white. Apparently other Americans also recognize that the sources of racism are different today from what they were in the past. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 31 percent of blacks think that most blacks are racists,     ... MORE