Barry Farber: Females At The Flanks?

Men should do the fighting.    This is a column opposing the use of women in combat, but let me tell you what kind of column this is not. It’s not going to slam you with the same old arguments about women being weaker, less able to carry a wounded man to safety, destroyers of “unit cohesion” and the “Band of Brothers.” And we know in Israel,    ... MORE

Tim Kelly: Who Will Protect Us From Our Protectors

The crisis is the government power grab.  It didn’t take long for the megalomaniacs and opportunists in Washington to exploit the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, as a pretext for another attempt to annul the Second Amendment and expand their power. Never one to let a good crisis go to waste, President Obama signed a series of executive     ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - The Business Of Bad News

Rob Kampia: Ending Marijuana Prohibition In 2013

Possible accomplishments this year.     Unless people have been hiding under a rock this past couple months, they know that more than 55 percent of voters in Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana on November 6. As a result, many people have grand expectations of how we're going to get closer to ending marijuana prohibition in the  ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: What's An Assault Weapon?

CNN, President Obama and many others don't know. Last week Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced a new, supposedly improved version of the federal "assault weapon" ban that expired in 2004. But like that earlier law, which the California Democrat also sponsored, Feinstein's bill prohibits the manufacture and sale of guns based on characteristics that   ... MORE

VIDEO: President Obama Cuts Spending?!

AP: GDP Shows Harsh Drop From Government Estimate

The continuing saga of hope and change.    Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — decreased at an annual rate of 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 (that is, from the third quarter to the fourth quarter), according to the “advance” estimate    ... MORE

Dustin Hurst: Bipartisan Opposition To Domestic Drones

Parties join forces to curtail surveillance society.    Drones are wildly popular on the battlefield. Now they can claim victory elsewhere. The use of drones within U.S. borders—in car chases, to monitor wildfires, or for simple surveillance—is uniting political parties and people more often at odds. Their concern: the widespread use of drones     ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Whose Welfare?

Theories about culture trump welfare of humans.    If there is ever a contest for the law with the most grossly misleading title, the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 should be a prime candidate, because the last thing this Act protects is the welfare of Indian children. The theory behind the Indian Child Welfare Act is that an American Indian ... MORE

William A. Levinson: Never Let A Dead Child Go To Waste

Let's act quick, before their heads clear.    Barack Obama, Dianne Feinstein, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo, and their cohorts followed Rahm Emanuel's advice to "never let a good crisis go to waste" when they used the Sandy Hook shooting to renew their assault on the Bill of Rights. Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell added, in effect, that    ... MORE

VIDEO: George Gilder - Wealth And Poverty

A Former Drug Czar Advisor Compares Pot To Child Porn

by Matthew Feeney.     If you thought former drug czar advisor Paul Chabot couldn’t top his claim that alcohol prohibition “actually worked” you would be wrong. Chabot recently appeared on HuffPost Live and compared marijuana to child pornography. From the Huffington Post: When asked by HuffPost Washington Bureau Chief Ryan Grim ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Shouting Louder

Volume is a poor substitute for substance.     An old-time trial lawyer once said, "When your case is weak, shout louder!" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shouted louder when asked about the Obama administration's story last fall that the September 11th attack on the U.S. ambassador's quarters in Benghazi was due to an anti-Islamic video  ... MORE

VIDEO: You Have A Duty To Protect Yourself


Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke knows the value of gun rights.

Charles W. Baird: On Paying Our "Fair Share"

Marketing legalized theft.      President Obama often asserts that fairness requires everyone "to play by the same rules." He then calls for raising tax rates paid by "millionaires and billionaires," but no one else. Well, Mr. President, you cannot have it both ways. Logically, if we are to enjoy what the Constitution calls "equal protection of the law,"   ... MORE