by Andrew Napolitano. Which is more dangerous to personal liberty in a free society: a renegade who tells an inconvenient truth about government law-breaking, or government officials who lie about what the renegade revealed? That's the core issue in the great public debate this summer, as Americans come to the realization that their ... MORECongress Killed Our Privacy And Empowered The NSA
by Andrew Napolitano. Which is more dangerous to personal liberty in a free society: a renegade who tells an inconvenient truth about government law-breaking, or government officials who lie about what the renegade revealed? That's the core issue in the great public debate this summer, as Americans come to the realization that their ... MORER. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.: Justice Thomas Echos JFK
Quotas and affirmative action cause nothing but trouble. For four decades the American people have been perplexed by “affirmative action,” “quotas,” and all the circumlocutions that have accumulated around them. Reading about them is painful. Living with them is worse. What has the Supreme Court trying been trying to tell us with ... MORE
Folks Use 'Incompetent' And 'Liar' To Describe Obama
Jennifer Harper on Pew Research findings. One gauge of a president’s favorability is the assorted descriptors the public volunteers to a pollster about the leader of the Free World. The Pew Research Center has tracked the assorted description of President Obama over the years, and has this to say: “The survey finds that the one-word ... MOREJulie Borowski: Knowing Your Rights Gets More Important
Freedom is under attack incrementally. Many Americans have probably read about oppressive governments in history books and thought, “Why didn’t the people stand up and stop this from happening?” In hindsight, it just seems so obvious that the people should have noticed and protested government overstepping its bounds. But often, ... MORESpying's The Real Story, Not Edward Snowden
by Gene Healy. I promised myself to stay away from Orwell metaphors for the duration of the latest surveillance-state controversy. But the punditocracy's recent "two-minutes hate" against National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has me backsliding already. Judging by the vicious -- and irrelevant -- attacks on Snowden's character, all too ... MOREEmily Miller: Using Taxes To Threaten 2nd Amendment
Making self-protection unaffordable. Liberals are trying every tool at their disposal this year to go after guns. They have failed on Capitol Hill to restrict the Second Amendment, so they are moving through the states to enact their agenda. The latest maneuver is to hike the tax on guns and ammunition to dissuade the law-abiding ... MORE
John Stossel: Banning The Things That Make Us Happy
People say America is a free country. But what if you want to drink, have a cigarette or make a bet? Government often says "no" to protect us from ourselves. It's as if the government is still run by the Puritans who settled this land four centuries ago. They said pleasure and luxury are sinful. Today's government has a better argument ... MORENew Carbon Regulations Come At Great Cost To America
by Jeffrey Folks. Five years into Obama's presidency, twelve million Americans remain unemployed, ten million others are underemployed, the unemployment rate is rising, and Obama wants to make it worse. In the fourth year of the Reagan presidency, the national economy grew by 6.8%. Last year, under Obama, it was still stuck at 2.2%. That ... MOREJames Ostrowski: How To Help Low-Wage Workers
Without raising the minimum wage. The minimum wage law is in the news again, largely because the Democrats have misinterpreted the election as something other than a protest against the Iraq War and one-party rule. Why do politicians love to propose increases in the minimum wage? 1. It costs them nothing other than the ink and paper ... MOREJacob Sullum: When Policing Becomes Harrassment
Why NYPD's stop-and-frisk program is unconstitutional. The first time David Floyd was stopped and frisked, on a Friday afternoon in April 2007, he was walking down Beach Avenue a few doors from his house in the Bronx. Two police officers confronted him, demanding to know who he was, where he was going, what he was doing, and whether ... MOREDavid A. Lieb: Nullification Efforts Mounting In The States
State resolve on gun rights, pot and other issues. Imagine the scenario: A federal agent attempts to arrest someone for illegally selling a machine gun. Instead, the federal agent is arrested — charged in a state court with the crime of enforcing federal gun laws. Farfetched? Not as much as you might think. The scenario would become ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Laser beams of wisdom. Edmund Burke said, "There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men." Evil men do not always snarl. Some smile charmingly. Those are the most dangerous. If you don't think the mainstream media slants the news, keep track of how often they tell you that the Arctic ice pack is shrinking and how ... MORE
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