by Neil Snyder. It's 2:00 a.m. You are at home in your bed sound asleep. Your wife is sleeping beside you, and your children are asleep in their rooms down the hall. The muffled sound of a window breaking interrupts your slumber. You're groggy and you wonder if it was just a dream, so you lie there quietly and listen. A few seconds later, you hear other ... MORE
U.S. being pushed toward a police state. President Barack Obama has been following the path of attacking civil liberties and pushing the U.S. towards totalitarianism, says Randy Short, a member of Dignity, Human Rights and Peace organization in Baltimore. “The cybersecurity bill that President Obama seems to want to pass without submitting ... MORE
The drive for guilt over happiness. “We Could End Homelessness With The Money Americans Spend On Christmas Decorations,” announces a headline from Think Progress blogger Adam Peck. So far as we can tell, Americans haven’t exactly been taking to the
streets demanding that people trade Christmas ornaments for welfare
programs, ... MORE
Armed citizens a bulwark against state power. Liberals have declared war on gun rights. Following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School
in Newtown, Conn., gun-control zealots have seized on the murder of 20
children and 6 adults to push their longtime goal of rolling back the
Second Amendment. The bodies of the victims ... MORE
by Michael Suede. Fox News Denver recently did a story on the effects of driving high on cannabis. In the process of doing the story, they had people drive a video game simulator to test the effects of impairment. However, Fox rigged the driving simulator to force crashes so they could bias the story against cannabis users. One of the test participants ... MORE
by Dave Boyer. After taking criticism for missing an October deadline, the Obama administration Friday released its list of proposed government-wide regulations that it plans to consider in the next year. The administration put out its notice, called the unified regulatory agenda, online around 3 p.m. on the Friday before Christmas, after most ... MORE
Golden State is fast losing its luster. Gas in Vegas is a dollar cheaper a gallon than in the Golden State, or so a friend and recent LA transplant tells me. He went on to say the top tax rate in California is over 13%, while, of course, Nevada has no state income tax. Over dinner at Del Frisco’s, he explained how industries are being ruined by ... MORE
Santa Claus is a thoroughly American invention. Christmas in America is an exuberant display of human ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of life. Yet all of these are castigated as “materialistic”; the real meaning of the holiday, we are told, is assorted Nativity tales and altruist injunctions (e.g., love thy neighbor) ... MORE
Reflections on a senator and the 2nd Amendment. About 15 years ago, I served on the staff of a Senator who was an ardent opponent of gun control. Once I asked him why he was so adamantly opposed to any restrictions on gun sales, when even the police favored banning sales of certain kinds of assault weapons. The Senator dismissed these ... MORE