Walter E Williams: Bit By Bit Strategy

A relentless march of busybodies and tyrants.   There's a move on to prohibit Washington's football team from calling itself "Redskins," even though a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision said that it has that right. Now the name change advocates are turning to the political arena and intimidation. The NCAA has already banned the University of    ... MORE

VIDEO: Ben Swann: NSA's Criminal Activity

Katie Kieffer: Go See Copperhead The Movie

Don’t give up on Hollywood.     I just had the exciting opportunity to pre-screen Gettysburg director Ron Maxwell’s third Civil War movie premiering Friday, June 28. If you see just one movie this summer, make it Copperhead. Copperhead is worth seeing because it re-tells American history with an intimate, engaging and non-textbook approach.    ... MORE

No, The NSA Leaks Aren't Putting Americans At Risk

by Steve Chapman.   If a person in government says the sun will come up tomorrow, it's sensible to believe that person -- but not until the first rays seep over the horizon. Skepticism is even more justified when the government has been caught hiding something from the public and needs to excuse the secrecy. In the aftermath of Edward Snowden's    ... MORE

Jonathon Moseley: Will The Real Traitor Please Stand Up?

Okay, who is the real traitor?       Is Edward Snowden a heroic whistleblower or a traitor? Well, maybe Snowden is a bit of both. He is both a hero and a traitor, arising from different aspects of his dramatic actions. Snowden was a computer whiz and former Booz Allen contract employee handling secret work for the National Security Agency  ... MORE

Mark Nestmann: When You Need To Disappear

Leave no footprints.      Whistleblower Edward Snowden needs to disappear if he is to avoid kidnapping, assassination, extradition, or deportation to the United States. If you’re ever faced by a situation in which you need to disappear, right away, what would you do? Perhaps someone is bent on revenge and has threatened to kill you.     ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Assimilation And Acculturation

The Forgotten Man Of The Minimum Wage Debate

by Doug Altner.   President Obama has renewed his call for Congress to raise the minimum wage to at least $9 per hour. Advocates claim that raising the minimum wage helps low-wage workers. Opponents point out that if Congress makes it illegal to hire an employee for less than $9 per hour, there will be fewer job opportunities for those who lack  ... MORE

Prohibition Lite Is Making RYO Cigarettes All The Rage

by Jeffrey A. Tucker.     A month ago, I was sitting with some college students for lunch. After we ate, two of them took out loose-leaf tobacco and rolling papers, with filters and all. They started rolling cigarettes at the table. In some way, it looked more like poverty than a charming anachronism. Puzzled, I asked why they were doing this. The   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Gas Myths

Where's Fidelity To The Constitution When You Need It?

by Andrew Napolitano.   When former spy Edward Snowden revealed to the world that the federal government is spying on most Americans, most Americans were surprised and unhappy. But half of official Washington yawned before it roared. Somehow the people in the government had a pretty good idea of what government spies  ... MORE

Jerry Brito: How Leaks Advance Liberty And Resist Tyranny

Using technology to keep the government in check.   We now know what we have long suspected: that the National Security Agency is collecting the phone call records of all Americans. And we are now justified in suspecting what we have long feared: that it is also keeping a permanent backup copy of everything that happens on the      ... MORE

John Stossel: The War On Drugs Is Worse Than NSA Spying

Politicians cause more problems than they solve.     In their arrogance, they assume that only they solve social problems. They will solve them by banning this and that, subsidizing groups they deem worthy and setting up massive bureaucracies with a mandate to cure, treat and rescue wayward souls. Their programs fail, and so they pass new  ... MORE

Dan Mangan: Poll Finds ObamaCare Is Already Hurting Jobs

No surprise here.      Small business owners' fear of the effect of the new health-care reform law on their bottom line is prompting many to hold off on hiring and even to shed jobs in some cases, a recent poll found.  "We were startled because we know that employers were concerned about the Affordable Care Act and the effects it       ... MORE

VIDEO: NSA Director's Deceptive Testimony