Science provides the evidence. Economic freedom is, as Martha Stewart might say, a good thing. That’s not just my bias as a libertarian: I’ve got science on my side. In a new study published in Contemporary Economic Policy, two of the authors of the annual Economic Freedom of the World Index set out to see how other researchers were ... MORERonald Bailey: Freedom Is Good For You
Science provides the evidence. Economic freedom is, as Martha Stewart might say, a good thing. That’s not just my bias as a libertarian: I’ve got science on my side. In a new study published in Contemporary Economic Policy, two of the authors of the annual Economic Freedom of the World Index set out to see how other researchers were ... MORERace Relations Plummet During The Obama Regime
Racial division a calling card of liberalism. Public attitudes about race relations have plummeted since the historic election of President Barack Obama, according to a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal. Only 52 percent of whites and 38 percent of blacks have a favorable opinion of race relations in the country, ... MOREBrent Bozell: Insulating Obama From His Corrupt IRS
It helps when the media ignores the issue. President Obama is announcing for the umpteenth time he's going to "pivot" to fixing the economy — as if that's ever worked before, since it is he who broke it. That said, Obama will pivot to tiddlywinks if that's what it takes to get out from under his mountain of scandals. On the White House ... MOREDaniel Hannan: Statism Is Turning America Into Detroit
Ayn Rand's Starnesville comes to life. Look at this description of Detroit from today’s Observer: What isn’t dumped is stolen. Factories and homes have
largely been stripped of anything of value, so thieves now target cars’
catalytic converters. Illiteracy runs at around 47%; half the adults in
some areas are unemployed. In many ... MORE
Diane Stafford: Obesity's Becomes Concern For Employers
Fat employees get extra rights. Ignore an obese employee’s request for a larger desk chair and prepare to be sued for violating disability accommodations law. Don’t hire an overweight woman because she doesn’t fit your corporate sales image and face a possible discrimination lawsuit. Call your employee “Fatty” instead of his ... MOREJoseph Farah: Drones, Drones Everywhere
Government eyes will be your constant companion. I don’t know what’s more threatening to liberty and privacy – the National Security Agency’s monstrous eavesdropping efforts and satellite surveillance on American citizens or the plans for massive expansion by local, state and federal governments of spying on us from ... MORERich Tucker: The Right Kind Of Federalism
Americans should be free to choose. Regular elections are a critical feature of American democracy. If
you don’t like the way your town, state, or federal government is
headed, you know you’ll have a chance to change leadership at the ballot
box. Of course, if your state is slowing you up with high tax rates and
slow growth, there’s no ... MOREGrasping for Dignity in the Era of the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead. During a routine traffic stop, Leila Tarantino was allegedly subjected to two roadside strip searches in plain view of passing traffic, while her two children—ages 1 and 4—waited inside her car. During the second strip search, presumably in an effort to ferret out drugs, a female officer “forcibly removed” a tampon from ... MOREBrae Jaeger: Your Place In The Database
Don't think for a moment you're not important. Regarding the American surveillance state, it seems that the truth comes out a little at a time. We learned about the FBI's Carnivore in the 1990s, which the copied internet data of people whom the agency deemed "reasonably suspicious." In September 2001, we saw the worst attacks on ... MOREJohn Stossel: Stalled Motor City
The laws of economics must be racist. MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry — the same TV commentator who said Americans need to stop raising kids as if they belong to individual families — had an extraordinary explanation for why the city of Detroit sought to declare bankruptcy last week: not enough government. "This is what it looks like when ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts From Wise Thinkers
Not-so-common sense. "We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish." (F.A. Hayek) "Many respectable writers agree that if a man reasonably believes that he is in immediate danger of death or grievous bodily harm from his assailant he may stand his ground and that if he kills him he has not ... MORE
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