Obama's Benghazi Scapegoat Gets A Year Of Prison

Politically incorrect speech trumps free speech.   The filmmaker behind an anti-Islam YouTube video that was initially blamed for sparking deadly protests in the Muslim world admitted today violating his probation and was sentenced to a year in federal prison. Mark Basseley Youssef, 55, who previously used the name Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, admitted     ... MORE

14 Ways Legal Marijuana Could Boost The Economy

by Harry Bradford.   Two states became the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use Tuesday, but it's not just users that may get a high as a result. Colorado and Washington state voted Tuesday night to legalize marijuana, sparking celebrations distinct but not mutually exclusive from those rooting for Barack Obama. But it's not just stoners and     ... MORE

Obama May Levy New Tax On Energy To Pay Deficit

by Mathew Carr. Barack Obama may consider introducing a tax on carbon emissions to help cut the U.S. budget deficit after winning a second term as president, according to HSBC Holdings Plc. A tax starting at $20 a metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent and rising at about 6 percent a year could raise $154 billion by 2021, Nick Robins, an analyst at the bank in      ... MORE

VIDEO: Gas Lines, Gouging, and Hurricane Sandy


Keeping prices low means nobody gets fuel.

Nathan Vardi: Obama Win Makes Wall Street The Big Loser

Market looks to future with dread.  In October, Wall Street hosted a rich fundraiser at the Hilton New York for Mitt Romney. Hedge fund, private equity and investment banking big shots were among the nearly 200 co-chairs of the event that cost $1,000 to attend. Those who shelled out $5,000 got to leave with a photo with vice-presidential hopeful Paul Ryan,  ... MORE

National Review Online: Sandy And Climate Change

Complex science meet simpleminded politics.    The case for climate change, formerly the case for global warming, entails a series of propositions that begin with the unobjectionable and escalate to the absurd: that the climate is changing, that these changes are likely to be dangerous and destructive, that these changes are in the main     ... MORE

VIDEO: America Reaffirms The Status Quo

Jay Nordlinger: The People's Choice

“Mitt Romney: Not one of us.”  That was the slogan of an Obama ad. And, yes, Mitt Romney is not one of us. Who’s “us”? Whoever we are, or they are, Romney isn’t one of them. And I’m not either. Fine with me, in a way. I don’t think much of Obama’s “us.” I’m very sorry that Obama has won again, because I think he’s a bad president, and I’ve also come to think ... MORE

Long Lines Caused By Government Price Gouging Laws

by Karl Dickey. New York and New Jersey are not much different from Florida when it comes to one aspect of reacting to a hurricane or major storm - price gouging laws. What is often hailed as a great idea by the masses and politicians looking for re-election has become another of government's unintended consequences. And what dire            ... MORE

More Years For Obama, More Tears For America

by Charles Hurt.   All that for nothing. It was the billion-dollar election that did not decide one single damned thing. Republicans control the House. Democrats control the Senate. And the White House remains in Democratic hands with absolutely no mandate whatsoever. Another four years with no hope of change. In this environment with this   ... MORE

Ethan Nadelmann: States Right To Legalize Marijuana

Washington state and Colorado lead the way. Washington State and Colorado made history tonight by becoming the first states in the United States - to approve the legal regulation of marijuana. These victories likely represent the beginning of the end of marijuana prohibition in this country and many others as well. Just as the repeal of alcohol   ... MORE 

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - Economic Rape And Seduction

A. Barton Hinkle: The $4,000 Trash Can

$56.6 billion in compliance costs imposed since Jan 1. According to conventional progressive wisdom, regulation is the means by which a compassionate government protects the weak and innocent from the strong and malevolent. Try telling that to Brad Jones. Jones is one of the owners of Buckingham Slate, a Virginia business a little over an hour’s drive   ... MORE

ObamaCare Drops Full-Time Employment

by Walter Russell Mead. Many businesses anticipate that Obamacare will deal a blow to their bottom line in the form of fines and penalties. Some are now planning to evade the law’s fine for uninsured full-time employees by  pushing full-time employees to part-time status. The Wall Street Journal reports: Several restaurants, hotels and retailers    ... MORE

VIDEO: Proof that Big Government Is Failing America