VIDEO: America's Longest War: The Trailer

Brian Phillips: Abolish Public Schools

Make a move toward educational excellence.   In recent years, it has become increasingly popular to argue that government should be operated more like a business. As an example, a manifesto written by sixteen public school executives explains how to fix public schools: Let’s stop ignoring basic economic principles of supply and demand    ... MORE

Jane S. Shaw: The 'P.C.' Dumbing Down Of U.S. Schools

Campuses succumb to groupthink.     U.S. colleges and universities are drowning in a sea of “political correctness,” and many of higher education’s “best and brightest” don’t recognize the danger. Indeed, speech codes and groupthink are so prevalent on American campuses that we now take them for granted. Instead of meekly accepting the   ... MORE

John Stossel: Frack To The Future

The political power of silly people.    Celebrities are now upset about fracking, the injection of chemicals into the ground to crack rocks to release oil and gas. With everyone saying they want alternatives to foreign oil, I'd think celebrities would love fracking. I'd be wrong. Lady Gaga, Yoko Ono and their group, Artists Against Fracking, don't  ... MORE

Garth Kent: 340 Sheriffs Refuse To Enforce Gun Control

Standing up against unenforceable knee-jerk reactions.      A Colorado sheriff has joined the list of at least 340 sheriffs who have vowed to uphold the Constitution against gun-control measures that violate Americans’ Second Amendment rights. Weld County Sheriff John Cooke said he and many other county sheriffs “won’t bother enforcing” laws      ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - Why Many Cities Are Broke

Thomas Sowell: A Real Term Limit

For vision beyond the next election cycle.    The main thing wrong with the term limits movement is the "s" at the end of the word "limit." What are advocates of term limits trying to accomplish? If they are trying to keep government from being run by career politicians, whose top priority is getting themselves reelected, then term limits on given   ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Intellectuals And Race

Who creates the greatest hurdle to blacks? After reading Dr. Thomas Sowell's latest book, "Intellectuals and Race," one cannot emerge with much respect for the reasoning powers of intellectuals, particularly academics, on matters of race. There's so much faulty logic and downright dishonesty. Many intellectuals attribute the behavior patterns     ... MORE

VIDEO: Food Stamp Outreach To Illegal Aliens


Sequester or not, politicians find new ways to squander your tax dollar.

'Public Servants' Humiliate American Hero At Airport

TSA demands marine take off his legs for search. Transportation Security Administration inspectors forced a wounded Marine who lost both of his legs in an IED blast and who was in a wheelchair to remove his prosthetic legs at one point, and at another point to stand painfully on his legs while his wheelchair was examined, according to a       ... MORE

Andrew Moylan: Don't Tax The Internet

Beware of the "Marketplace Fairness Act."  Senate Republicans will face a fork in the road this week when Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., forces a vote on a measure paving the way for expanded state sales tax collection for online purchases. The route Durbin would have them take would eventually lead to passage of the so-called “Marketplace Fairness Act,” a bill ... MORE

Sobriety Checkpoints Still Controversial: The Whole Story

America's most popular warrantless search.      This being St. Patrick’s Day weekend, a popular drinking holiday, there is one thing you can count on: A police crackdown on drunken driving. And the Ohio State Highway Patrol did not disappoint. There were at least 15 sobriety checkpoints as well as saturation patrols across the state this     ... MORE

Debra Saunders: Smoke Gets In Your Rights

Making it illegal to smoke in your own home.      California Assemblyman Marc Levine, D-San Rafael, has introduced a bill to make it illegal for people to smoke in their own homes — if they live in an apartment or a condo or a multifamily home. When last I wrote about Levine, he was pushing a statewide law to require grocers to   ... MORE

VIDEO: Stossel - The Conservative's Case Against Liberty


Ann Coulter attempts to explain the faults of libertarianism.

Anti-Drone Devices To Be Going On Sale

Some power for the people.  Domestic drones will soon be soaring through the sky left and right, but a company in Oregon with ties to the US military is marketing a service that they say will make sure private property is safe from surveillance. The team at one-month-old Domestic Drone Countermeasures doesn’t go into many specifics, but says ... MORE