Robert Robb: Obama And The Death Of Federalism

To the Founders, federalism was big deal.       President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address illustrated what a dead letter federalism is among Democrats. Not that further illustration was necessary. Federalism holds that the national government should limit itself to things of truly national scope. Things that are primarily of local concern should be  ... MORE

ObamaCare's Health Exchanges Are Customer Free Zones

by Sally Pipes.      Last month, the CEO of the nation’s largest health insurance company warned that he and his peers may balk at participating in Obamacare’s insurance exchanges — online, government-run portals where consumers and small businesses without conventional employer-sponsored coverage may shop for policies starting next year.   ... MORE

VIDEO: Why The Price Of Everything Is Going Up


The more money put into circulation, the more there is to bid up prices.

Kurt Nimmo: California Lib Wants To Tax Concealed Carry

The latest scheme of a 2nd Amendment denier.      Rep. Linda Sánchez, a California Democrat with a history of attacks on the Second Amendment, introduced H.R. 793last week. The proposed legislation calls for an excise tax on concealed carry and a federal buyback program. It is co-sponsored by a number of Democrats in the House, including the   ... MORE

John Stossel: To Government, Every Penny Is Sacred

President Obama has new priorities.   That means new spending. In his State of the Union, he said, "The American people don't expect government to solve every problem." But then he went on to list how, under his guidance, government will solve a thousand problems, including some (like climate change and a loss of manufacturing jobs) that  ... MORE

Stephen J. Dunn: Nothing Civil About Asset Forfeiture

Policing for profit is a license to steal.   On receiving his monthly bank statements, a small business owner notices that the United States government has seized the balances of his accounts during the month. He calls the bank, and is given contact information of a Special Agent of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division. The    ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: Staring In Drone Dynasty

You are a reality star.    You might think no one sees you in your fenced-in backyard grilling hamburgers in your boxer shorts. But government drones equipped with HD cameras are filming a new reality show starring you: “Drone Dynasty.” In popular reality shows like “Duck Dynasty” and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” we essentially  ... MORE

ViDEO: Drug War Reality Show Premiers Tonight

Full-Body-Pat-Downs In America's Public Schools

How the war on drugs is a war on children.   On a warm spring afternoon at American colleges, the intoxicating aroma of surely medicinal marijuana will be floating like a soft caress in the breeze, and hard-working students will be stocking up on amphetamine cocktails to sharpen their overstressed young minds for the coming exams.  ... MORE

VIDEO: Andrew Napolitano - Innocent Until Proven Guilty

Emily Miller: Concealed Carry Renewed

Pumping oxygen to the 2nd Amendment.       The top legislative priority for gun owners in the previous Congress was passage of a national concealed carry reciprocity bill. The measure sailed through the House on a bipartisan 272 to 154 vote only to die at the hands of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who refused to bring it to the floor. Since President   ... MORE

New York Toddlers Cram For Kindergarten Entrance Exam

by Gary North.    At age 4, kids are expert test-takers. They have to be. If they don’t score well, they will have to attend a public school. Yes, a public school. A New York City public school. The kid is doomed. Rich parents dread the thought. At $30,000 for kindergarten, there is still intense competition. Think of $400,000 for a kid’s education,   ... MORE

VIDEO: Social Security Spending Since 1950

R Rahn: More Government Control Equals Poorer Nations

A free market tutorial from, of all places, Moscow.  An upside down world. Here I am, in my London hotel room, watching an English-language financial program being broadcast from Moscow on RT (Russian TV). The program host is correctly berating the heads of the major Western central banks for acting like socialists in setting interest rates and ... MORE

3 Reasons To Build The Keystone XL Pipeline

by Meredith Bragg & Nick Gillespie.      Few energy projects have inspired the level of vitriol surrounding the Keystone XL Pipeline, that would run 1,700 miles from Alberta, Canada through the United States to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. The oil sands of Alberta are estimated to hold 170 million 170 billon barrels of petroleum, the largest reservoir of black ... MORE

Jeff Berwick: Is America A Police State Yet?

There are ways to measure. Wendy McElroy writes: If you need to ask the question, then the answer is “yes”. But that is a glib response and I do not feel glib about America's slide through the nine rings of political hell. A police state is generally defined as a totalitarian government that exerts extreme and pervasive social, political and economic control over ... MORE