VIDEO: Ruger on Freedom and Tyranny

IBD: EPA Ups Mandate For Nonexistent Fuels

Bureaucrats impose more pain at the pump.   In yet another green folly, the lawless Environmental Protection Agency continues to fine gasoline producers for not using cellulosic biofuels in quantities that don't exist, making only more pain at the pump. Last month, a federal court dealt a serious blow to the Environmental Protection Agency's renewable  ... MORE

John Stossel: Libertarian's Awkward Bedfellows

Limited government advocates are not morally suspect.    Last week, Conservative pundit Ann Coulter told me and a thousand young libertarians that we libertarians are puss- -- well, she used slang for a female body part. We were in Washington, D.C., at the Students for Liberty conference, taping my TV show, and she didn't like my questions  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell - Shepherds And Sheep

Sheep are easily led astray.     John Stuart Mill's classic essay "On Liberty" gives reasons why some people should not be taking over other people's decisions about their own lives. But Professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard has given reasons to the contrary. He cites research showing "that people make a lot of mistakes, and that those mistakes can prove ... MORE

Shawn Mitchell: On Disarming American Women

Whistle while your raped.       Freshman lawmaker Joe Salazar, (D. Thornton) became an embarrassing distraction for the liberal juggernaut in Colorado last week when he blurted out what he really thinks of the Second Amendment, the right of self defense, and the faculties of women in peril.  Hint: His views are appalling. As backlash developed, Salazar  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Leave The Gamblers Alone

Phil Kerpen: Government Spending Hurts People

The money comes out of their hides.    We should not accept the statist premise that most government spending helps people. Government spending is not just wasteful or inefficient, but all too often serves to crush the private economy and individual freedom. In the coming days the media will provide a constant stream of purported victims of   ... MORE

Dan Dagget: Using Gun Violence To Get Elected

Why liberals have no interest in real solutions.      The most frustrating aspect of the continuing verbal marathon about guns and gun control is that no one is talking about the real cause of our continuing problem with mass, meaningless murder. That means no one is talking about real solutions that will have real results. Instead,  we are ... MORE

VIDEO: Federal Entitlement Spending Since 1950

Tristan Higgins: Why I Hate The TSA

Ignorance and humiliation "public servant-style."    Some days are worse than others. I've talked a lot on my blog about what I experience as a butch lesbian, specifically how people interact with me when they see that I don't conform to the gender identities that they expect. I feel all lined up on the inside -- I am a woman physically, and I feel like  ... MORE

A. Barton Hinkle: The Bogus Case Against Junk Food

Anti-food nannies launch their latest attack. A recent cover story in The New York Times Magazine offers a shocking exposé of Big Food. In granular detail it relates the food conglomerates' "hyper-engineered, savagely marketed, addiction-creating battle for 'stomach share.'” If you don't have the time to slog through the nearly 10,000 words,   ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: Scaring The Ghost Of El Chapo

El Chapo haunts the streets of Chicago.    His ghost hoards cash in Los Angeles stash houses. His shadow darkens underground tunnels between Mexico and the U.S. His spirit drives his clan to bloodshed. The world’s most-wanted kingpin may be dead. But the Sinaloa cartel will thrive until America legalizes drugs. Guatemalan authorities are currently ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Higher Minimum Wages

A maximum folly.     In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama proposed raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9 an hour. That would be almost a 25 percent increase. Let's look at the president's proposal, but before doing so, let's ask some other economic questions. Are people responsive to changes in price? For example, if the price of  ... MORE

VIDEO: Fox News - Unconstitutional Business As Usual

Robert Zurbin: Imposing Misery By Environmental Devotion

Green anti-humanism.      On February 11, 2013, the Denver Post ran a guest commentary of great clinical interest. In the piece in question, Colorado State University philosophy professor Philip Cafaro advanced the argument that immigration needs to be sharply cut, because otherwise people from Third World nations will come to the United States and  ... MORE