Let Consumers Make Their Own Choices On Sugary Drinks

by Baylen Linnekin.    Earlier this week the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a group that regularly pushes for increased food regulations and considers soda to be “a slow-acting but ruthlessly efficient bioweapon,” announced it would be launching “a major action regarding the regulation of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages.”       ... MORE

Walter E Williams: The Reality Of Abraham Lincoln

The politically-incorrect reality.   Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" has been a box-office hit and nominated for 12 Academy Awards, including best picture, best director and best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, who portrayed our 16th president. I haven't seen the movie; therefore, this column is not about the movie but about a man deified by many. My colleague  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Guns And Pensions

The great appeal of pension politics.   A nation's choice between spending on military defense and spending on civilian goods has often been posed as "guns versus butter." But understanding the choices of many nations' political leaders might be helped by examining the contrast between their runaway spending on pensions while skimping     ... MORE

VIDEO: W E Williams - Social Security & Other Deceptions

John Hoeven: The Right Climate For Remarkable Results

Lessons from North Dakota's oil fields. Delayed energy projects and regulatory hurdles to domestic oil production not only cost the United States economy billions of dollars and millions of jobs, but they also stand in the way of an elusive goal: true American energy security. I believe, however, that our nation is within striking range of that goal and,    ... MORE

Scott Shackford: Dead Letters

The U.S. Postal Service's long, hard fall.  The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) did not fare well in 2012. Costs, losses, and debts rose as the volume of mail continued a decline that began in the middle of the last decade. Now the USPS is warning that without help from Congress, it will run out of money by the end of October. In reason’s May 1991     ... MORE

VIDEO: The Morality Of ObamaCare

Sheriffs Prepare To Abandon Citizens To Federal Gun Grab

by Brandon Turbeville.  In the wake of the highly questionable surge in school shootings and the long-awaited gun grabbing effort being promoted by the President, lawmakers, and the mainstream media, hundreds of American sheriffs have now gone on the record to state publicly that they will not enforce any new gun laws such as the ones being proposed in the  ... MORE

Mark Almonte: Why Do Civilians Need Assault Weapons?

Could you visualize yourself needing one?   The two strongest reasons for civilians to own assault weapons are self-defense and defense against tyranny. One self-defense situation that comes to mind is the L.A. riots.  Who can forget the nightly news's live footage of thugs hurling rocks at passing cars, buildings on fire, and looters smashing storefront   ... MORE

Heather Roff: The Short Slide From Drones To Despotism

Powerful enough to trump the safeguards for rights. This past week a secret white paper outlining legal justifications for the targeted killing of a U.S. citizen came to light. The brief, titled "Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen who is a Senior Operational Leader of Al Qaida or an Associated Force" discusses    ... MORE

ObamaCare ALREADY Forcing Doctors To Close Practices

Since the election took repeal off the table ... After 25 years of practicing medicine, Dr. Tamzin Rosenwasser packed in her dermatology practice in 2011, barely a year after the passage of President Obama’s health care initiative. The timing wasn’t coincidental. “I have interrupted practicing medicine because of Obamacare,” said    ... MORE

VIDEO: Stossel - Texas Vs California Private Property Rights

Walter E Williams: Cultural Deviancy, Not Guns

A problem of standards.    There's a story told about a Paris chief of police who was called to a department store to stop a burglary in progress. Upon his arrival, he reconnoitered the situation and ordered his men to surround the entrances of the building next door. When questioned about his actions, he replied that he didn't have enough men to cover  ... MORE

Mark J. Fitzgibbons: A Property Rights Revolution For 2013

Bureaucratic bullying on steroids.  A previously apolitical organic farmer in Virginia has set off a property rights revolution that would make Founders Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and author of Virginia's Declaration of Rights George Mason proud. Martha Boneta had a business license for her tiny farm store in scenic Paris, Virginia,  ... MORE

VIDEO: Polling Data On Drugs, Guns, And The Debt Ceiling