VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - A Downward Trajectory

Police Chief Seeks To Nullify Unconstitutional Gun Control

by Alex Newman.    While the Obama administration and some Democrat lawmakers plot ever more extreme assaults on the Second Amendment, state and local officials across the country are working just as hard to find ways to protect the gun rights of law-abiding citizens in their jurisdictions. One local Pennsylvania police chief is helping to lead the way, asking   ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Liberalism Vs. Blacks

Evidence can be a real inconvenience.     There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds? San Francisco is a classic example of a city unexcelled in its liberalism. But the black population of San Francisco today is less   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Gun Laws That Kill

A. Barton Hinkle: Spending Cuts Are Mostly Fiction

Would you like to save $20,000 this year?     Of course you would. Here’s how: Plan a month-long vacation to Disneyland, and budget $20,000 for the trip. Then don’t go. Presto! You just “cut” your family budget by 20 grand. This sounds absurd—because it is. Yet that is precisely how Washington operates. A couple of weeks ago,       ... MORE

Biden: White House Eying 19 Executive Actions On Guns

Obama prepares to deploy tyrannical measures. The White House has identified 19 executive actions for President Barack Obama to move unilaterally on gun control, Vice President Joe Biden told a group of House Democrats on Monday, the administration’s first definitive statements about its response to last month’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook  ... MORE

Robert Anderson: Gun Control And Political Correctness

Gun rights are not about hunting.          Silence rarely conveys knowledge, especially when it’s the result of intimidation. There are moments when it’s prudent to remain silent, but hardly when you’re in the midst of a gun ownership debate. The political class, and its anti-gun proponents, are today engaged in a massive legal assault on       ... MORE

Gary Becker: Have We Lost The War On Drugs?

Monetary costs and human costs are too high. President Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs" in 1971. The expectation then was that drug trafficking in the United States could be greatly reduced in a short time through federal policing—and yet the war on drugs continues to this day. The cost has been large in terms of lives, money and the     ... MORE

VIDEO: Stossel - Whatever Happened To Transparency?

Michael Barone: Is The Entitlement Era Winding Down?

Are we on the threshold of a new period in U.S. history.   It’s often good fun and sometimes revealing to divide American history into distinct periods of uniform length. In working on my forthcoming book on American migrations, internal and immigrant, it occurred to me that you could do this using the American-sounding interval of 76 years,   ... MORE

Veronique de Rugy: Get States Off The Federal Dole

Stop the growth of government.  In the wake of Hurricane Sandy and the havoc it wrought on New York, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said they would ask the federal government to cover at least 90 percent—and perhaps all—of the cleanup and recovery costs. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) asked the same for the Garden State. ... MORE

VIDEO: The Death of Savings Since 2001

Sheldon Richman: Against Government Debt

What Thomas Jefferson's favorite economist would say. The last time the debt-ceiling controversy arose, it occurred to me that if the raising the "ceiling" is a mere formality—if in fact the sky's the limit to government borrowing—it's no ceiling at all. Hence, I dubbed this charade the "debt sky." Those who favor automatic increases in the "limit"—or no limit  ... MORE

Kinsley Guy: Time To Re-Think Our War On Drugs

Rampant crime caused by drug war, not drugs.      Now that Colorado and Washington have legalized recreational use of marijuana, it's time for Floridians to start talking seriously about doing the same. Legalization won't come overnight. A recent Quinnipiac University poll found only 42 percent of Florida voters think recreational    ... MORE

Obama Says Gun Control For Thee; A Virtual Army For Me!

Obama gives self Secret Service protection for life.   President Obama signed a law today granting lifetime Secret Service protection to former presidents and their wives. As it stands now, the measure affects only two presidents -- Obama and predecessor George W. Bush. The bill approved by Congress reversed a 1994 law that had ended Secret    ... MORE