Curing the disease of debt. The futile search for El Dorado, the city of gold, is the stuff of legends, among them a sardonic poem by Edgar Allen Poe about a knight who wasted his life in that pursuit. At first glance, the quest for something far more substantial, an international gold monetary standard, might seem equally Quixotic in today's world where those ... MORE
Your tax money at work. The FDA won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington, D.C., region after a judge this month banned Daniel Allgyer from selling his milk across state lines and he told his customers he would shut down his farm altogether. The decision has enraged Mr. Allgyer's ... MORE
Helping to build a case against ourselves. American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled today in what could become a precedent-setting case. Judge Robert Blackburn ordered a Peyton, Colo. woman to decrypt the hard drive of a Toshiba laptop computer ... MORE
Don’t drink tap water. Beware the coming environmental apocalypse. It’s election season, and advocacy groups are turning up the heat on the Environmental Protection Agency. Will the Obama Administration buckle in this über-political time and give in to alarmism? The target du jour is atrazine, the American farmer’s most popular weed killer, but it’s ... MORE
Caution: unbridled liberalism ahead. A top official with the National Rifle Association said Friday that President Obama will move to "destroy" gun rights and "erase" the Second Amendment if he is re-elected in November. While delivering one of the liveliest and best-received speeches at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington ... MORE
Imagine Rodney King in the YouTube era. The beating captured on a camcorder in 1991 was seen on at least 240 TV stations around the world, impressive for pre-digital days, and served notice on law enforcement officers that cameras could capture them at their best — and worst. Today, when laughing babies can yield 42 million views. ... MORE
Info on how to get Napolitano's show back on. The Fox Business Channel has cancelled one of the only shows on the entire Fox News network that was in any way informative or watchable - Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano. In a press release distributed late Thursday, the channel announced that its entire prime-time programming lineup ... MORE
You didn't think they'd stop at seat belt laws, did you? Mandatory buckle-up laws set the precedent: Even your own body in your own car is no longer your own personal space. Here's how it works: The government decides that whatever it is you're doing is "unsafe" -- not specifically in your case, just generally -- maybe, might be, could be -- then asserts the legal ... MORE