California Governor Approves Benefits For Illegal Aliens

by Jonah Bennett.    Pass Go and collect $200. Thanks to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, millions of dollars of aid will now be available to California’s illegal immigrants, in order to help them navigate the complexities of the legal system, the Washington Post reports. Illegal immigrants have been streaming across the the southern U.S.    ... MORE

Police Captain: To Avoid Cop Rape, Don't Break Any Laws

by Elizabeth Nolan Brown. In less than two months, three Oklahoma police officers have been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting women while on duty. One of the officers, state trooper Eric Roberts, was accused of raping women he pulled over for traffic violations. In the wake of this, Tulsa news station KJRH interviewed Oklahoma Highway   ... MORE

VIDEO: Lawrence Reed - Federal Bureaucracy Nitwittery

Jacob Sullum: New Survey Data Deflate Two Drug Scares

The drug war is dependent on deception.   Survey data released this month by the federal government cast doubt on a couple of widely accepted beliefs about drug use trends: 1) that the nation is in the midst of an escalating "heroin epidemic" and 2) that loosening marijuana prohibition encourages teenagers to smoke pot. In the National  ... MORE

Rigged Gold Price Distorts Perception of Economic Reality

by Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler.    The Federal Reserve and its bullion bank agents (JP Morgan, Scotia, and HSBC) have been using naked short-selling to drive down the price of gold since September 2011. The latest containment effort began in mid-July of this year, after gold had moved higher in price from the beginning of June and   ... MORE

VIDEO: Bad Rules Make Bad Cops - Civil Forfeiture Schemes

Jaana Woiceshyn: Business As A Moral Endeavor

The ones who make our lives better.     When I tell people that I teach business ethics, I am often told that it is an oxymoron because business cannot be moral. That view is common, thanks to the wide acceptance of altruism as a moral code. The view is also mistaken, and we should be concerned because such a view hampers the ability    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene

Musings of a genius.    What a non-judgmental society amounts to is that common decency is optional — which means that decency is likely to become less common. The biggest issue in this fall's election is whether the Obama administration will end when Barack Obama leaves the White House or whether it will continue on, by appointing federal    ... MORE

A Very Real Introduction To The Growing Police State

by Heather Wilhelm.      A few years ago, when my husband and I lived in the Chicago area, we joined a Bible study group through our church. It was a nice, well-mannered, cordial collection of eight couples who met monthly for dinner and discussion. Upon reflection, our approach was a little unorthodox. After about five to 10 minutes of valiant     ... MORE

Chef Emeril Lagasse Says Obama May Drive Him Broke

by Brian Preston.  Government needs to kick it down a notch. Famed chef Emeril Lagasse says that it’s becoming all but impossible to be a successful restaurateur in America today. The government just gets in the way too much. Lagasse specifically singled out the current president’s policies. “It’s becoming a very challenging industry to become a ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel: The Green Monster

Walter E Williams: Will The West Defend Itself?

The barbarians at the gate.   The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), sometimes called ISIS or IS, is a Sunni extremist group that follows al-Qaida's anti-West ideology and sees a holy war against the West as a religious duty. With regard to nonbelievers, the Quran commands, "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from  ... MORE

Cynthia Walker: Common Core Is Un-Common & Not Core

Making math hard.    I became a math teacher by a circuitous route.  My degree is in engineering.  I spent five and a half years refurbishing nuclear submarines, and then I quit work to bear, rear, and eventually homeschool our three children. As a homeschool mom, I participated in co-ops, taking turns teaching groups of homeschooled children   ... MORE

VIDEO: Underwood Award For Most Underhanded Villan

Henry I. Miller: Life-Saving Drugs And Deadly Delays

Curious incentives on display.    The Food and Drug Administration just granted permission for “expanded access” to an experimental medicine for Ebola. It’s OK as far as it goes, but it’s an exception to the FDA’s reluctance to approve the use of life-saving products. Safety and efficacy testing of the drug, designated TKM-Ebola, has barely     ... MORE

Allan C. Brownfeld: Highway Robbery By The Police

Civil asset forfeiture.    Under current law, government can take your car and everything in it, including cash, tools and electronics, even if you are not charged with any crime. Getting your property back can take many months and cost thousands of dollars in legal fees. A three-part series in the Washington Post in September showed that law enforce-   ... MORE

IBD Editorial: Press Helps Obama Censor The News

It's not often that the press exposes its own bias.     But a Washington Post story this week reveals both the Obama administration's attempts to censor the news and the media's complicity in that effort. For decades, news outlets have relied on pool reports from a rotating group of White House correspondents who follow the president  ... MORE

Fay Voshell: The Unabombers At The EPA

The dangerous true believers.       Students of recent history will remember Ted Kaczynski as the man who is responsible for three murders and sixteen bombings over a period of eighteen years. These actions were fully excusable from Kaczynski's point of view.  As he dispassionately puts it, “In order to get our message before the public with some   ... MORE

VIDEO: Judge Jim Gray: Judging The Drug War