Ron Paul: Keeping Up Statistical Appearances

Could the real unemployment be 22 percent?      Last week, supporters of the current administration rejoiced over job numbers released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS).  For the first time since the administration came to power, the official unemployment number fell below 8%.  Keynesian cheerleaders all claimed the  ... MORE

Shikha Dalmia: ObamaCare's Rationing By Another Name

About the Independent Payment Advisory Board.  The stunning post-debate reversal in Mitt Romney’s fortunes may not last through the elections. But win or lose, he’ll do the country a big favor if he continues to expose the Independent Payment Advisory Board—the beloved center-piece of Obamacare—for what it is: An effort to give an ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: Dagny Taggart Goes To War

The battle for freedom. Dagny Taggart is not just the entrepreneurial heroine of Ayn Rand’s magnum opus novel, Atlas Shrugged. She is the inspiration of real women everywhere who are taking up her shield and fighting her battle for freedom using the weapons of entrepreneurship, education and free speech. The media continually talks about the ... MORE

VIDEO: Liberty & Virtue

Walter E Williams: Poverty Nonsense

Bad decisions can be hazardous to your economic health. Here's a recent statement frequently suggested by leftist academics, think tank researchers and policymakers: "People were not just struggling because of their personal deficiencies. There were structural factors at play. People weren't poor because they made bad decisions. They were poor  ... MORE

Zack Fulkerson: Privacy Under Attack

TSA and police drag 4th Amendment through the mud.    The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America reads: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,  ... MORE

VIDEO: The Broken Window Fallacy

Mike Riggs: How Asset Forfeiture Helps Police Departments

Provides funds to buy drugs and prostitutes for cops. Former Romulus Police Chief Michael St. Andre, his wife, and five Romulus detectives pled not guilty last week to using asset forfeiture funds aquired during narcotics and prostitution investigations to buy...narcotics and prostitutes. The Detroit Free Press reported ... MORE

William Sullivan: Social Justice Is A Proven Failure

... and so is Obama. There is a reason that Obama's ideological policy efforts have failed America. It is because they, like his ideology, are not American. No, I am not suggesting that he wasn't born here or that he's not an American citizen. I am stating with absolute certainty that his core ideology is predicated upon anything but liberty. And since     ... MORE

The Unstoppable March Toward National Bankruptcy

by Mark Henderson.      The opening line of the Beatles’ iconic “Sergeant Pepper’s” album is echoing in my thought: “It was 20 years ago today…” Well, not quite to the day, but 20 years ago I published an article titled, “$4 Trillion and Counting.” In it, I despaired at the rapid increase in the national debt from its first-ever crossing of the $1 trillion  ... MORE

Business Insider: Rand's Dystopian Masterpiece

SEE ATLAS SHRUGGED II TRAILER HERE  In a Leningrad University classroom in the early 1920s, as the professor drones on about orthodox Marxist theory, a young woman with an intense gaze is writing furiously in her notebook. The woman is Alisa Rosenbaum, later to be famous as Ayn Rand, and her jottings do not concern the relationship between   ... MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - Toward Economic Sanity

Andrew B. Wilson: Sleepless In St. Louis

Entrepreneur/super-mom fears an Obama victory.     No one would mistake my sister Dodie -- a super-mom (sometimes tiger mom) and entrepreneur -- for a hand-wringing pessimist. Intrepid and resourceful, she always rises to the moment -- like the "unsinkable" Molly Brown in the musical about the Titanic. But now (even after the smack-down  ... MORE

Steven Greenhut: California's Crony Capitalism Problem

Jerry Brown and the redevelopment scam.     In much of the country, the mere mention of the name, Jerry Brown, signifies the otherworldly nature of California politics. Many people in other states have come up to me and said something to this effect: “You Californians are so weird that, in tough economic times, you re-elected that retread  ... MORE

VIDEO: Why Thieves Hate Free Markets