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Eric E. Sterling: The War On Drugs Hurts Business
Time for an economic analysis of drug policy. “The drug war is weakening state institutions, infiltrating judicial systems and undermining rule of law,” all of which is bad for business, César Zamora, Nicaraguan businessman and vice president of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America (AACCLA) told the Christian Science ... MORE
Robert Stacy McCain: The Breitbart Experience
His powerful voice for individual liberty will be missed. Last Friday, at 10:30 p.m., Andrew Breitbart sent me a two-word text message: "Where y'at?" We were both in Troy, Michigan, that night. He was scheduled to speak at the next day's Americans for Prosperity forum. I was in town to cover the Republican presidential primary campaign. Knowing he would be ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: Spies In New Brunswick
Whose side is government on? On June 2, 2009, a janitor in an office building in New Brunswick, N.J., noticed what he thought was terrorist-related literature and sophisticated surveillance equipment in an office he had been assigned to clean. He told his boss, who called the local police, who notified the FBI. Later in the day, the FBI and the New Brunswick ... MOREGary Jason: Like The Price Of Gas? Just Wait!
Obama's post-November plans for our energy sector. The worthy journalists of the mainstream media have not seen fit to raise urgent questions about the soaring price of gas, and the current administration's role in causing it. Contrast that with the intensely critical commentary directed at George W. Bush when gas spiked during the latter part of his tenure ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Santorum Fails Constitution 101
Rick is not happy with our founding document. I think Sen. Rick Santorum would make a great community organizer. Unfortunately, we are trying to remove, not re-elect, a community organizer in the White House. Both Santorum and President Obama have a track record of ignoring the Constitution and implementing their personal ideologies at the ... MOREMichael Barone: Why Liberals Like Taxing The Wealthy
They favor the government over the voluntary sector. I have long been puzzled by the enthusiasm with which many young liberal bloggers cheer on proposals to raise tax rates on high earners. I can understand why they might favor them, but not why they seem to invest so much psychic energy in the issue. Some of this may just be team ball: You cheer when your ... MOREKOB News 4: Albuquerque Dog Becomes Registered Voter
Now we know why Democrats howl at voter ID. An Albuquerque man says he successfully registered his dog to vote in Bernalillo County. The dog owner said he saw a voter registration booth on the University of New Mexico's campus a few weeks ago and decided to see how easy it would be to register his dog to vote. He said he was trying to expose the ... MORE Jeremy Pelofsky: U.S. Court Upholds Free Speech
Tobacco health labels violate free speech. A U.S. judge sided with tobacco companies on Wednesday, ruling that regulations requiring large graphic health warnings on cigarette packaging and advertising violate free-speech rights under the U.S. Constitution. Cigarette makers challenged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's rule requiring companies ... MOREGreg Beato: Say Goodbye To The King-Sized Snicker Bar
Michelle Obama is acting sweet to Big Candy. In 1998, a Colorado handyman was snowmobiling in the mountains outside of Steamboat Springs when he got swept up in an avalanche that buried his vehicle and left him stranded in a blizzard. Provisioned with nothing more than two butane lighters and a Snickers bar, the man endured 40 mph winds and ... MOREJacob Huebert: Consumers Should Decide Who Succeeds
Politicians should get out of the protection racket. Should a government bureaucrat have the power to arbitrarily decide who’s allowed to start a business and who isn’t? Most readers of this website — and most Americans — have a ready answer to that question: No. But in many cities and states, government officials have the power to do just that. ... MOREVIDEO: John Stossel - Illegal Everything - Pt 2
Lobbyists pay politicians to regulate away their competition.
Jacob Hornerger: Libertarians Vesus Liberals On The Poor
Incentives to produce are the key. Wouldn't it be great to have national debate between liberals and libertarians over whose philosophy and policies help the poor? For decades liberals have claimed that the welfare-state/regulated-economy way of life helps the poor. That has been the major rationale for the statist way of life under which we have all been ... MORE
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