Liberty rising? I didn't know what a libertarian was when I started reporting. I was just another liberal. I knew the Republicans were icky, and Democrats were more like me — except they didn't care about debt. I had no idea there was an actual movement of thinking people who want to honor the principles of the Founders — liberty and limited ... MORE
Govt mandate does more than drive up corn prices. The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the water supply. Even the cemetery that disappeared like an apparition into a cornfield. It wasn't ... MORE
Just what is in their rational self-interest? Third parties have had an unbroken record of failure in American presidential politics. So it was refreshing to see in the Tea Party an insurgent movement, mainly of people who were not professional politicians, but who nevertheless had the good sense to see that their only chance of getting their ... MORE
Perhaps they know the best way to steal power. According to some estimates, there are more than 100 million traffic signals in the U.S., but whatever the number, how many of us would like Washington, in the name of public health and safety, to be in sole charge of their operation? Congress or a committee it authorizes would ... MORE
Not just economically bad, philosophically cancerous. The driving force behind Obamacare was the absurd belief that through legislation and regulation, the government could make many healthcare consumers better off without making any of them worse off. As we are now discovering, the truth is the reverse of that – hardly anyone ... MORE
Incentives against doctors and high quality medical care. As the Obamacare debacle rolls on -- looking even worse
than it did a week ago, if that's possible -- there's a separate but
related issue involving Medicaid expansion. And, as with Obamacare,
people who oppose the expansion risk being called heartless murderers
for "denying sick ... MORE
It's getting ever-easier to exit the system. Balaji Srinivasan, a Stanford
Universty instructor and genomics entrepreneur, recently offered
some radically individualistic advice to aspiring tech innovators.
Speaking at at this year's Startup School, sponsored by tech
"seed accelerator" Y
Combinator, he warned members of the audience ... MORE
Death by cop 8X more likely than death by terrorist. Though Americans commonly believe law enforcement’s role in society is to protect them and ensure peace and stability within the community, the sad reality is that police departments are often more focused on enforcing laws, making arrests and issuing citations. As a result of this as ... MORE
More incentives not to be a doctor. Tucked inside nearly 11,000 pages of the Affordable Care Act is a little-known provision that doles out three months of free health care to individuals who choose to default on their premiums. People who receive the federal subsidy to be part of Obamacare will be allowed to incur a three-month ... MORE
Stop the dictatorship. There are laws, there are damn laws and then there are regulations. America is awash in laws, many of them bad. We are drowning in regulations, almost all of which are stupid, illogical and simply bad. How many laws are there? Well, it is tough to get an exact count. There are over three thousand criminal laws in the ... MORE
Our rulers reflexively see the citizenry as a threat. At a time when over 4 million people have had their health insurance canceled, it’s good to know that some Americans can still access prompt medical treatment, even if they don’t want it. David Eckert was pulled over by police in Deming, N.M., for failing to come to a complete ... MORE
by Baylen Linnekin. On Thursday the FDA made the surprise announcement that it would
move to
ban artificial trans fats, which are found in foods containing
partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. The ban would not apply to
naturally occurring trans fats, such as those found in meat and
dairy products. Adoption of the proposal, which is ... MORE