One Of The World's Most Impoverishing Commands

by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins.       “Give back.” That’s the message sent to successful businessmen. You built a company? You made a lot of money? Fine. Now it’s time for you to use the money you’ve made to do some real good in the world. Apparently, creating our modern standard of living and our modern lifespan doesn’t count.           ... MORE

R. Emmett Tyrell Jr.: Rand Paul Comes Of Age

GOP should recognize this force to be reckoned with.   When Sen. Rand Paul took to the floor of the United States Senate the morning of March 6, he really — as they say — may have made a difference. It is a difference in our awareness of the issues facing the country. It is a difference in our perception of the man who is leading the   ... MORE

VIDEO: DEA Head's Absurd Marijuana Testimony

Veronique de Rugy: Farm Subsidies Must Die

A program to take from the poor and give to the rich.   On January 2, President Barack Obama signed a bill designed to avert the fiscal cliff. At the same time, to slightly less fanfare, he averted the “milk cliff.” By extending the 2008 farm bill another nine months, he prevented the automatic revival of a 1949 law requiring the   ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: What If Nanny Is A Thug?

A hypothetical reality. What if a dictator in America used the force of law to tell you what to eat? What if the same dictator told you what to drink? What if the dictator told you the sizes of the containers in which you could purchase a lawful beverage? What if the dictator just made up the rules according to his own personal taste? What if the product ... MORE

If There Is No Inflation, Why Are Prices Up So Much?

by Michael Sivy. Last week, I ran out of ink for my printer and ordered some more online. My computer automatically pulled up the previous order, and I was shocked to see that the price of the ink cartridges I was buying had gone up 25%. To my mind, ink always seems overpriced. Manufacturers sell printers cheaply because they know that they  ... MORE

Barry Farber: Is This America, Or The Losers' Lounge?

A much needed pep talk. Rush Limbaugh says he’s ashamed to be an American. Glenn Beck says it’s time to surrender. Neal Boortz entitles his book summing up 42 years of talk-radio stardom “Maybe I Should Just Shut Up And Go Away.” One of our most effective columnists, Paul Hollrah, who served twice on the Electoral College and beat the Democratic    ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Police Militarization

Rick Moran: ObamaCare's 15-Page Application Form

Big winners: lawyers and paper pushers.   Remember when the president touted the ease with which consumers would be able to get a health insurance policy under Obamacare? It would be almost as easy as shopping on the internet, we were told. Oh, really? How many retail companies would stay in business if they required that you fill out  ... MORE

Gene Healy: Rand Paul Vs The "Forever War"

Challenging modern conservative orthodoxy.     The cruelest thing about politics is that it occasionally gets your hopes up. Sometimes, just when you've almost concluded that the best D.C. has to offer is ringside seats at the latest legislative catastrophe, you get an unexpected outbreak of political courage and common     ... MORE

VIDEO: On Bloomberg, Authority And Police States

Jerry Day tears into NY Nanny-In-Chief Bloomberg's presumptions of authority.

NCPA Research: Green Cars Are Not So Clean After All

Green vehicles are polluting and wasteful. Electric and hybrid cars were lauded as a cure for climate change and carbon emissions. Though electric vehicles are zero emissions, only 50,000 were sold in 2012 -- well short of the number needed to achieve President Obama's goal of 1 million green cars on the road by 2015. While    ... MORE

Tim Feran: Fear Of New Gun Laws Stokes Run On Ammo

In preparation for government tyranny.  Gun owners are having a hard time reloading lately as a spike in ammunition sales has stripped shelves bare in shops across the country.   “We’ve been out for a month, and we have no idea when any is coming in,” said David Tait of Ohio Valley Outdoors in Lancaster.   “People want to come in, and we just don’t ... MORE

A. Barton Hinkle: Will The Right Come Around On Pot?

Or will they assume the role of U.N. lackeys.      Advocates of treating marijuana more like alcohol gained another ally recently: the United Nations. The U.N. would claim otherwise. In fact, the U.N.’s International Narcotics Control Board would hotly deny it. The agency’s latest report laments the legalization of pot in Colorado and     ... MORE

Tracie Cone: Bill Would Ban Lead Ammunition In California

Inmates are running the asylum.     Environmentalists are pushing legislation to ban lead ammunition in California to prevent toxins from poisoning scavengers that eat animal remains left by hunters. Final language of the bill was introduced Monday by Assembly Member Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, who said the legislation would remove a    ... MORE