Petition To Split California Into Six States Gets Green Light

More laboratories of liberty please.       A venture capitalist who feels colossal California is too unwieldy to govern is proposing to split it into six separate states, and Secretary of State Debra Bowen has given him the green light to start collecting petition signatures. Tim Draper filed a ballot initiative in December stating that because of      ... MORE

Federal License Plate Tracking Scheme Raises Concerns

American citizens tracked by surveillance state.     A plan by the Department of Homeland security to establish a national license-plate recognition database that would collect information from commercial and law enforcement tag readers is raising concerns over privacy and how the data might be scrutinized. The Washington Post reports that    ...  MORE

Mark Meckler: Connecticut Gun Owners Deliver A Message

Registration? Hell no!       Did you know that quietly--very quietly thanks to a biased media--tens of thousands of American citizens delivered a message about the limits of government? Did you know that citizens of one state engaged in a mass act of civil disobedience that has left statist officials from both parties scratching their heads as an ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Expelling Govt From School

Jeff Woodburn: Understanding Jury Nullification

Juries can deliver a message about unpopular laws.      A New Orleans mayor famously warned federal officials after they closed down several well-established houses of prostitution that “you can make it illegal, but you can’t make it unpopular.” Well, in New Hampshire and around the country, that forecast may well be applied to       ... MORE

Mark Hendrickson: The State Of The Disunion

Govt aggression against Americans is rampant.      Americans are deeply divided in 2014, suggesting that this year’s elections will be another bitter clash. One major fault line that divides us is that many Americans view the federal government as their benefactor while others perceive it as a grave threat to their well-being.      ... MORE

Medical Pot Is Helping Seniors Get Off (Prescription) Drugs

John Stossel - Students For Liberty

The true hope for change.     On Saturday, some 1,500 students from all over the world gathered to discuss freedom at the Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, D.C. Economist Donald Boudreaux showed the students a department store catalog from 1958 to underscore how the free market, while contributing to income inequality, also     ... MORE

Veronique de Rugy: Time For A Guaranteed Income?

Friedman and Hayek supported the notion.      Switzerland will soon hold a nationwide referendum on granting a guaranteed and unconditional minimum monthly income of $2,800 for each Swiss adult. In America, where Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty just celebrated its 50th anniversary of failing to achieve victory, liberals jumped on the  ... MORE

What Can Unite Liberals And Tea Partyers? The NSA

by Connie Cass.    Hoyt Sparks says he has no use for liberal Democrats and their "socialistic, Marxist, communist" ways. Toni Lewis suspects tea party Republicans are "a bunch of people who probably need some mental health treatment." Politically speaking, the tea-party supporter in rural North Carolina and the Massachusetts liberal live a world apart.   ... MORE

Deroy Murdock: The United States Of Decline

America unravels at an increasingly dizzying pace.     America is unraveling at a stunning speed and to a staggering degree. This decline is breathtaking, and the prognosis is dim. For starters, Obama now rules by decree. Reportedly for the 27th time, he has changed the rules of Obamacare singlehandedly, with neither congressional approval  ... MORE

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Ramesh Ponnuru: Raising Minimum Wage Is Still A Bad Idea

A popular idea, just a bad one.     Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, as President Barack Obama urged in his State of the Union address last month, is as popular an idea as ever. It’s also a worse idea than ever. Obama presented it as a way to help struggling families: “Americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full      ... MORE

Minnesota Cops Fear Loss Of Millions If Pot Legalized

by Betsi Fores.            The Minnesota Law Enforcement Coalition’s opposition to marijuana legalization is another case of the drug war run amok. The coalition, which includes Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association, Minnesota Sheriffs Association, Minnesota County Attorneys Association, and   ... MORE

VIDEO: U.S. Government Says "No Inflation" As Prices Soar