by Casey Harper. Freedom in US is headed toward the sunset. A new report on the freedom of countries around the world ranks the United States 20th, putting countries like Chile and the United Kingdom ahead of the U.S. Last year, the U.S. was ranked 17th, but a steady decline of economic freedom and “rule of law” has dropped the level ... MOREUnited States Drops In Overall Freedom Ranking -- Again
by Casey Harper. Freedom in US is headed toward the sunset. A new report on the freedom of countries around the world ranks the United States 20th, putting countries like Chile and the United Kingdom ahead of the U.S. Last year, the U.S. was ranked 17th, but a steady decline of economic freedom and “rule of law” has dropped the level ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: The Deceptions Of Hillary Clinton
She might find her candidacy deleted. While the scandal surrounding the emails sent and received by Hillary Clinton during her time as U.S. secretary of state continues to grow, Clinton has resorted to laughing it off. This past weekend she told an audience of Iowa Democrats that she loves her Snapchat account because the messages ... MORE
Police State Update: 61-Year-Old Man Violently Attacked By Police And Arrested For Singing A 'Beach Boys' Song
by Matt Agorist. A 61-year-old Pennsylvania man, Jim Osche likes to go out into public and sing as a means of relieving stress. On Friday, however, Osche’s stress relief would be met with police brutality. As Osche walked down the sidewalk in front of Shula’s Steakhouse in downtown Allentown, the restaurant guests seemed to be pleasantly VIDEO INCLUDED ... MORERobert P. Murphy: Capitalists Have A Better Plan
Listening to the feedback of profit and loss. To early 20th-century intellectuals, capitalism looked like anarchy.
Why, they wondered, would we trust deliberative, conscious guidance when
building a house but not when building an economy? It was fashionable among these socialist intellectuals to espouse
“planning” as a much more ... MOREPresident Obama’s Department Of Injustice
by Alec Karakatsanis. The policy should be considered a crime. Last month, President Obama
used his clemency power to reduce the sentences of 46 federal prisoners
locked up on drug-related charges. But for the last six years, his
administration has worked repeatedly behind the scenes to ensure that
tens of thousands of poor people — disproportionately ... MORE
Ron Paul: The Seamless Web Of Liberty
Toward a free society. Many people think the Internal Revenue Service was violating civil liberties when it harassed tea party groups. After all, the groups were targeted because they wanted to exercise their civil liberty to challenge government policies. However, the specific issue in the IRS case was the groups’ application for tax-exempt status, ... MOREWe're Doing Our Trophy Kids A Great Disservice
by Stephen Moore. Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison became an overnight cultural hero when he announced this week that he doesn't want his kids to accept trophies they "haven't earned." Harrison tweeted that he was returning his sons' "participation trophies," all the rage in kids' sports these days. Awards, he said, should be for ... MORECan A Free Society Work For The Less Clever?
by Stephen Hicks. Honestly now: Do you have what it takes? We all like to think we’re smarter than average, but the math is cruel. Half of us are below median intelligence, and some of us are considerably lower. So why should we think that freedom is a good policy for everyone? I believe freedom is the best policy, but sometimes that is a hard ... MOREJohn Stossel: Breaking The Rules
Innovators are the true public servants. Humans need rules. Rules make life more predictable. But when the rules multiply, the world needs some rule-breakers. The creator of the underground website Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, was sentenced to life in prison for creating an online space that allowed people to use bitcoins to buy and sell things. ... MOREHow Helicoptered Kids Become Hypersensitive Students
by Lenore Skenazy. Creating the scaredy cat generation. This is the article everyone’s talking about: “The Coddling of the American Mind,” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, on the cover of this month’s Atlantic.
It discusses the idea taking root on college campuses that students
cannot be exposed to ideas, words, or phrases that ... MOREChris Edwards: Why The Federal Government Fails
The 5 structural reasons. Most Americans think that the federal government is incompetent and wasteful. Their negative view is not surprising given the steady stream of scandals emanating from Washington. Scholarly studies support the idea that many federal activities are misguided and harmful. A recent book on federal performance ... MORESteve Weis: When Curtains Block Justice
A parody of “When Phone Encryption Blocks Justice”. In June, a laptop was stolen
from a bedroom on a Monday afternoon in Palo Alto, CA, a suburb 15 miles
south of San Francisco. There were no witnesses to the larceny, and no
surveillance footage either. With a laptop thief on the loose and few leads at their disposal, investigators ... MOREMychal Massie: The Establishment Vs. We The People
Don't fall for elites' 'consensus' argument, again. Quoting journalist Lewis Lapham, Attorney John W. Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute wrote: “The shaping of the will of Congress and the choosing of the American president has become a privilege reserved to the country’s equestrian classes, aka the 20 [percent] of the population that ... MORERandom Thoughts On The Passing Scene
by Thomas Sowell. Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe. President Obama's "agreement" with Iran looks very much like "the emperor's new clothes." We are supposed to pretend that there is something there, when there is nothing there that will stop, or even slow down, Iran's ... MORE
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