Oops: MSNBC Anchor Can't Access ObamaCare Exchange

by Andrew Johnson.           MSNBC’s Mara Schiavocampo ran into difficulties as she tried to sign up for the newly launched health-care exchanges on Tuesday. After getting an error message on the website, she called the help line twice, but wasn’t able to reach a navigator on the other end. Instead, she was put on hold for 35       ... VIDEO AND MORE

L. Brent Bozell: The Old Media And The New Sheriffs

Courage came to visit the GOP.          Once again, we've reached a government shutdown over irresponsible government spending. Once more, the media are proclaiming the world is coming to an end and blaming conservative Republicans for everything. They are working hand in glove with the Never Enough Government lobby that       ... MORE

Tesla Motors And The Folly Of Government Intervention

by A. Barton Hinkle.     Anyone searching for a case study to explain what is wrong with capitalism in America today can stop looking. We have the perfect specimen: Tesla Motors. Federal and state programs have conferred huge advantages to help the electric-vehicle company sell its cars — which state laws then make almost impossible to sell.     ... MORE

Nick Gillespie: Ayn Rand Would Have Loved Kickstarter

The ultimate in 'value-for-value'.       What does it mean that the makers of the final installment of a three-part film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s controversial 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged are asking for donations at the crowdfunding site Kickstarter? Isn’t that the book where characters pledge to “never live for the sake of another man, to live      ... MORE

VIDEO: Fox News - Welcome To ObamaCare

Will Congress Codify NSA's Sweeping Surveillance Power?

by Brendan Sasso.      Supporters and critics of the National Security Agency are preparing for a showdown on Capitol Hill over how to reform the agency in the wake of the leaks by Edward Snowden.  Defenders of the agency — primarily the leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence committees — are preparing legislation that would increase       ... MORE

Fred Branfman: America's Creeping Police State

Can the rapid growth of authoritarianism be stopped?     For those alarmed by the steady growth of lawless, violent and authoritarian U.S. Executive power for the last 50 years, the events of the past few months have been exciting. The emergence of a de facto coalition of progressives and conservatives opposing the National Defense    ... MORE

VIDEO: Nanny Of The Month - September 2013

8-Year-Old Suspended For Using Finger As Pretend Gun

The inmates are running the asylum.       The mother of an 8-year-old Central Florida boy is fighting back after her son was suspended from school for using his finger as a play gun. Bonnie Bennett said her son, Jordan, was suspended Friday at Harmony Community School in Osceola County after playing cops and robbers with another    ... VIDEO and MORE

Eric Peters: Assault And GM's $30,000 Battery

You might be allotted 200 miles between rechargings.     The economy must be doing a lot better than all the wretched indexes (number of people no longer even trying to find work, number of people on the dole, etc.) indicate. Otherwise, GM would not have announced it is committed to developing a new electric car battery capable   ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Are Guns The Problem?

Examining the inconvenient truth of the matter.        Every time there's a shooting tragedy, there are more calls for gun control. Let's examine a few historical facts. By 1910, the National Rifle Association had succeeded in establishing 73 NRA-affiliated high-school rifle clubs. The 1911 second edition of the Boy Scout Handbook made        ... MORE

Steve Chapman: Real Meaning Of The Redskin Debate

Should Congress care about the name of a sports team.      As a general rule, the names of professional sports teams, and their connotations, are of little concern. No one cares that the Chicago White Sox don't wear white socks, or that Utah, where the NBA's Jazz are based, is the last place you'd think of when you think of jazz.        ... MORE

VIDEO: Is ObamaCare Good For Business?

Matthew May: I Will Not Comply

A declaration of independence and liberty.             Like most members of the Congress that passed it and, undoubtedly, the president of the United States who signed it, I have not read the entirety of the ill-named Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  Yet there is one aspect concerning that legislation of which I am certain: I will    ... MORE