Steve Chapman: Gun Rights Find A New Home

Illinois cannot maintain its fiat ban on concealed-carry.  There are certain constants to life in Illinois. Abraham Lincoln has always been revered. The Cubs always find a way to lose. Lake Michigan never goes dry. Letting citizens carrying concealed firearms is out of the question. But one of those is no longer true. Tuesday, a federal appeals court said      ... MORE

Gun Control, People Control And Thought Control

by Daniel Greenfield.    The gun control debate, like all debates with the left, is reducible to the question of whether we are individuals who make our own decisions or a great squishy social mass that helplessly responds to stimuli. Do people kill with guns or does the availability of guns kill people? Do bad eating habits kill people or does the    ... MORE

Ed Morrissey: Probable Cause No Longer Required

Government free to rifle through records at will.      Remember when government needed something called a warrant or even probable cause to look at your records?  Good times, good times.  I’m nostalgic for the halcyon days of, er, February of this year, before the Attorney General of the United States signed off on an order allowing the        ... MORE

VIDEO: Murray Rothbard - Who Is The State?

Opposing Out-Of-Control Government Spying

by Andrew Napolitano.      After President Richard Nixon was forced from office in 1974, congressional investigators discovered what they believed was the full extent of his use of the FBI and the CIA to engage in domestic spying. In that pre-digital era, the spying consisted of listening to telephone calls, opening mail, and using undercover agents to  ... MORE

Ross Kaminsky: Death By A Thousand Regulatory Cuts

Prepare for the worst.  The public debate over the “fiscal cliff,” the combination of automatic spending cuts and tax rate increases that our nation is about to careen into in 2013, started the same way Republicans always begin following an electoral setback: badly. John Boehner seemed to be negotiating with himself, and conservative pundit   ... MORE

VIDEO: How The Constitution Was Destroyed


Judge Napolitano discusses the influence of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

How Much Taxation Would Fund Current Spending?

by Justin Hohn.  To best understand this spending aspect of the current budget negotiations in Washington, we must answer one crucial question: how much taxation on the top income-earners would be required to fully fund the present level of government spending? To do so, we must first make the unreasonable assumption that the rich will not respond  ... MORE

Who Benefits From The Mortgage Interest Deduction?

by Anthony Randazzo & Dean Stansel.    The federal income tax code is riddled with loopholes, deductions, and credits designed to promote various social goals and benefit assorted groups of Americans. One of the largest of these is the mortgage interest deduction (MID), which allowed taxpayers to claim benefits of $82.7 billion in      ... MORE

Philly Court Strikes Blow Against Asset Forfeiture Regime

by Eric Boehm.    A Commonwealth Court ruling is being hailed as a victory for property rights and a small blow against civil asset forfeiture laws, which allow the state to seize private property that may be connected to a crime. In a decision filed last month, Commonwealth Court Judge Dan Pellegrini called the state’s civil asset         ... MORE

Nullification - An Overview Of Its Many Forms

by Benjamin W. Mankowski Sr.   In the nullification movement, there are varying degrees and methods of nullifying certain federal acts. One who has been with the movement a while could forget and hyper focus on one, leaving someone new to the movement to think of nullification as a very narrow spectrum. To eliminate that       ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - Future Generations

ObamaCare's Cruel War On Patient-Centered Healthcare

by Sally Pipes.     In just a few weeks, when the calendar flips to 2013, millions of Americans will get their first taste of Obamacare — a $2,500 cap on their flexible spending accounts. That’s down from the previous $5,000 cap — and thus equivalent to a tax hike for any family that had been putting more into their FSAs to cover out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. ... MORE

John Stossel: Government Gone Bad

A problem that thinks its a solution.   Politicians claim they make our lives better by passing laws. But laws rarely improve life. They go wrong. Unintended consequences are inevitable. Most voters don't pay enough attention to notice. They read headlines. They watch the Rose Garden signing ceremonies and hear the pundits declare that   ... MORE

VIDEO: Why Is Higher Education So Expensive?