Brent Bozell: America, Forever Racist?

Racism has great utility for the left.    The central criticism of the George Zimmerman trial is that there was one. It was simply impossible to convict him of anything beyond a reasonable doubt. The central criticism of the coverage of this trial was that there was any. How did this story merit consideration as national news? Why was the death of      ... MORE

74% Of Small Business Will Fire Workers, Cut Hours

Paul Bedard on the effects of ObamaCare.         Despite the administration's controversial decision to delay forcing companies to join Obamacare for a year, three-quarters of small businesses are still making plans to duck the costly law by firing workers, reducing hours of full-time staff, or shift many to part-time, according to a sobering survey  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Whatever Happened To Grit?

John Stossel: Strangling Life

There are now 175,000 pages' worth of federal laws.   Local governments add more. I'm not so cynical that I think politicians pass laws just to control us. Someone always thinks: "This law is needed. This will protect people." But the cumulative effect of so many rules is to strangle life. Yet lawyers like George Washington Law professor John     ... MORE

Banning Advice Columnists In The Name Of Licensing

Brian Doherty on the high cost of free speech.     The state of Kentucky believes that writing a newspaper column is not protected by the First Amendment. On May 7, Kentucky’s office of attorney general sent a letter to newspaper advice columnist John Rosemond. The letter ordered him to sign a consent decree that he would stop      ... MORE

VIDEO: 3 Reasons Young People Can't Find Jobs

GOP To Obama: If You Can Delay Health Care, So Can We

by Anita Kumar.      Republicans will make another move Wednesday to damage the national health care law they derisively call Obamacare. This time, they’re being aided by the champion of the measure, President Barack Obama. With Obama’s recent move to postpone one part of the law as an opening, the Republican-ruled House of        ... MORE

Deroy Murdock: Fracking - Clean And Green

Contrary to rumors, it’s environmentally friendly.   The only thing deeper than a natural-gas well is the ignorance of the anti-fracking crowd. Fracking — formally called hydraulic fracturing — involves briefly pumping water, sand, and chemicals into shale formations far below Earth’s surface and the aquifers that irrigate crops and quench  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Is This Still America?

There are no winners in the trial of George Zimmerman.   The only question is whether the damage that has been done has been transient or irreparable. Legally speaking, Zimmerman has won his freedom. But he can still be sued in a civil case, and he will probably never be safe to live his life in peace, as he could have before    ... MORE

Asset Forfeiture, The Cash Cow Of The Drug War

by Lucy Steigerwald.     During a July 9 traffic stop in Meridian, Mississippi, police found $360,000 stashed in a secret compartment in the car. Though that’s perhaps an eyebrow-raising amount of money, readers of that linked article might notice something odd—the driver was let go, but the money was kept by the cops. The unnamed individual    ... MORE

VIDEO: Getting To Know Rand Paul

Jonathon Moseley: Right Of Self-Defense 1, Obama 0

Creepy crackers are not the problem.     Destroying the Second Amendment and the people's right of self-defense was the real goal of the George Zimmerman prosecution. Liberals hoped to scare gun owners, regardless of the eventual verdict. Traumatizing and intimidating people from using a firearm to defend themselves were what this case   ... MORE

Walter E Williams: What Egyptians Need

Starting with private property rights.      What Egyptian citizens must recognize is that political liberty thrives best where there's a large measure of economic liberty. The Egyptian people are not the problem; it's the environment they're forced to live in. Why is it that Egyptians do well in the U.S. but not Egypt? We could make the the same     ... MORE

VIDEO: Troubling Numbers Behind The Unemployment Rate


featuring AEI scholar Nicholas Eberstadt.