VIDEO: How The War on Drugs Threatens El Paso


US policy is a war on reason.   Former El Paso city council member Beto O'Rourke spoke at the Cato Institute's conference, "Ending the Global War on Drugs" on November 15, 2011. 

Chuck Neubauer: Gun Makers Baffled By ATF Criteria

Arbitrary and capricious rulings from government.  The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is in charge of determining whether a gun model is legal, but the agency won’t say much about its criteria. Despite overseeing an industry that includes machine guns and other deadly weapons, ATF regulations for the manufacture of weapons ...  MORE

Gary Jason: Unlimited Domestic Energy...Right Now

America will be a net petroleum product exporter.   A rush of recent reports indicate that the explosion of non-conventional fossil fuel production continues to transform the world. (Non-conventional fossil fuel production is the production of oil and natural gas by hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling.) In fact, 2011, will mark a major turning point ... MORE

VIDEO: Ron Paul Ad - Believe


GOP party leaders and the media WANT you to think Ron Paul is not electable.

World News Daily: The Most Ignored Stories Of 2011

Inconvenient truths. While the establishment news media brought plenty of bad economic news in 2011, the real story hasn’t been adequately told. The true rate of unemployment and inflation and the real state of the U.S. economy, which is far worse than reported, tops WND’s annual list of the 10 most “spiked” or underreported stories of the last year. At the end of ... MORE

VIDEO: The Broken Window Fallacy


Destruction never brings prosperity.

Obama Signs Historic Assault on American Liberty

BHO celebrates New Year by seizing citizen liberties. President Barack Obama rang in the New Year by signing the NDAA law with its provision allowing him to indefinitely detain citizens. It was a symbolic moment, to say the least. With Americans distracted with drinking and celebrating, Obama signed one of the greatest rollbacks of civil liberties in the history of ... MORE

Walter E Williams: I Love Greed

What human motivation gets the most wonderful things done? 
It's really a silly question, because the answer is so simple. It turns out that it's human greed that gets the most wonderful things done. When I say greed, I am not talking about fraud, theft, dishonesty, lobbying for special privileges from government or other forms of despicable behavior. I'm talking  ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: The Real Ron Paul Stands Up


May I have your attention please?  Will the real Ron Paul please stand up? I repeat, will the real Ron Paul please stand up? I keep hearing the same three rumors about Paul: He blames America for 9/11, he’s anti-Israel and he’s pro-Iran. So, who is the real Ron Paul? Does he blame America for 9/11? No, he’s very patriotic. Bob Schieffer recently interviewed ... MORE

Robert Knight: Justice Dept Seeks To Undermine Elections

Why Voter ID terrifies Democrats. The most consequential election in our lifetime is still 10 months away, but it’s clear from the Obama administration’s order halting South Carolina’s new photo ID law that the Democrats already have brought a gun to a knife fight. How else to describe this naked assault on the right of a state to create minimal    ... MORE

VIDEO: Ayn Rand - Red Army, White Army

Edward H. Crane: Why Ron Paul Matters

The one who stands for constitutionally limited government. The controversy surrounding decades-old newsletters to which GOP presidential aspirant Ron Paul lent his name is regrettable. First, it is regrettable because the sometimes bigoted, intolerant content of those newsletters is inconsistent with the views of the congressman as understood by those of us who ... MORE

VIDEO: Constitutional Authority for Dept Of Education


Another Jan Helfeld interview exposing liberal hypocrisy.

Jeffrey A. Singer: How EMTALA Crushes States' Rights

Why Medicaid is no longer a voluntary program.   It is widely believed that Medicaid is a voluntary program. While this may have once been true, it is no longer the case. Today, states confront the dilemma of having to choose between joining Medicaid or being forced to sacrifice any health care “safety net” for their indigent populations. This is all because ... MORE

Greg Beato: The Case For Walmart

NY politicians should drop their misguided war. In late November, New York City fired another preemptive strike against the gathering threat of $4 prescription drug co-pays, organic baby food, and eco-friendly laundry detergent. It came in the form of a report entitled Food for Thought: A Case Study of Walmart’s Impact on Harlem’s Healthy Food Retail    ... MORE

Matt Holzmann: Our Growing Police State

As crime rates drop, police powers grow at alarming rate. Last week, the FBI released its preliminary crime statistics for the first half of 2011, and across the nation violent crimes dropped 6.7% while property crimes dropped 3.7%. This continues a downward trend that dates back to the 1970's. Many of the violent crimes reported this year have been   ... MORE

VIDEO: Andrew Napolitano - When Presidents Go Bad