RougeGovernment: Is America Crazy Or Is Government?

Psychiatrists invent anti-government phobia. Is America crazy or is the United States government? A new “study” published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry suggests that people holding an intense fear of the government may be suffering from “Anti-Government Phobia” (AGP), whose symptoms include “extreme suspiciousness, conspiracy-mongering   ... MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - Who Pays Social Security Tax?

Mike Kelsey: To Protect And Defend, But Not Prefer


This explains a lot.   Conservatives are often ridiculed for criticizing activist judges who fail to respect the Constitution. We are told that it is not conservative originalists (labeled ignorant and extremist) but rather enlightened liberal judges—with their nuanced understanding of constitutional penumbras—who truly respect the spirit of the   ... MORE

Associated Press: Fighting Sioux Nickname Back At N.D.

Free Speech 1 NCCA PC Police 0.    The University of North Dakota resumed using its contentious Fighting Sioux nickname Wednesday even though it triggered NCAA sanctions, leaving some fans weary of the seven-year fight over a moniker that critics believe is demeaning. A law requiring the school to use its longtime nickname and logo, which shows      ... MORE

VIDEO: Chuck Woolery on Class Warfare


How did Americans get so soft and lazy?

Jacob Sullum: New York's Illegal Pot Crackdown

Largely an outgrowth of "stop and frisk" programs. Thirty-five years ago, New York's legislature decriminalized marijuana possession. Numbers released last week show the New York Police Department continues to flagrantly flout that policy, wasting resources on a pointless, unjust, and illegal crusade against pot smokers. Under the Marijuana Reform Act ... MORE

Josh Peterson: Democrats To Continue Internet Assault

A new cyber bill emerges. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, following a recent anti-piracy legislative debacle with SOPA and PIPA, will lead his second effort of 2012 to push Internet-regulating legislation, this time in the form of a new cybersecurity bill. The expected bill is the latest attempt by the Democrats to broadly expand the authority of executive branch ... MORE

Sen. Rand Paul: The President's War On Religious Freedom

ObamaCare cannot be allowed to trump our first liberty.     In his 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus, Pope John Paul II delivered a scathing critique of socialism, declaring that “the fundamental error of socialism is anthropological in nature. Socialism considers the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good    ... MORE

Infowars: FEMA Training Camp Activity In Missouri

"Incredible activity" at civilian internment facility. An anonymous source, going by the name of Sam, has sent photos to Infowars.com of a FEMA training camp located at Ford Leonard, Missouri. Sam will talk with Alex Jones on his nationally syndicated radio show today. Sam was contracted to work at the camp. He describes it as a “civilian inmate training ... MORE

VIDEO: Andrew Napolitano - Real Hope and Change

John Stossel: Government Can't Make Us Happy

There's only one way government helps.   In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson called the pursuit of happiness an unalienable right. This was a radical idea. For most of history, most people didn't think much about pursuing happiness. They were too busy just trying to survive. Then came the liberal revolution based on the idea of    ... MORE

WSJ Op-Ed: HHS Tells Religious Believers To Go To Hell

ObamaCare's great awakening.   The political furor over President Obama's birth-control mandate continues to grow, even among those for whom contraception poses no moral qualms, and one needn't be a theologian to understand why. The country is being exposed to the raw political control that is the core of the Obama health-care plan, and Americans are seeing  ... MORE

VIDEO: Halftime in America Parody

Richard Doerflinger: Mandatory Abortion Coverage?

What the HHS mandate was about all along. The fact is, neither PPACA nor the president’s order erects any barrier whatever to health-insurance plans’ including abortion coverage — in fact, for the first time ever in federal law, they declare that plans covering abortion can even receive federal funds. (Section 1303 of the federal law provides for a     ... MORE

Greg Moran: Judge Weighs PETA's Whale Slavery Lawsuit

A new emancipation proclamation?   A federal judge appeared skeptical Monday of arguments that the killer whales that perform at SeaWorld are being held as slaves and that their confinement violates the constitutional ban on slavery. After an hour of arguments, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller said he would take the case under advisement and   ... MORE

John Merline: Dependency Index Surges Under Obama

Up a whopping 23 percent to 67 million citizens.    The American public's dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage Foundation. The conservative think tank's annual Index of    ... MORE

Chris W. Bell: Understanding Unemployment Statistics

How is the rate calculated?   It may come as a surprise that according to the federal government, an out-of-work person who put in an application at every place in town more than thirty days ago, who scours every available newspaper's want ads every morning, and who visits every job search website on the web with no luck is not counted as unemployed.  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Don't Know? Don't Vote!

Roger Stone: For Energy Independence, Frack We Must

For jobs and cheap energy for millions of Americans. As the price of oil shoots through the roof because of political instability, and the inability of the Obama Administration to say yes to Canadian oil and thousands of jobs, we have to turn to other energy sources. Fortunately, there’s a cleaner and safer opportunity in natural gas right here in the United States.   ... MORE