Capitalism: The Solution To Mass Poverty

by Jaana Woiceshyn.            In a recent Vancouver Province column “Capitalism has a role in fighting poverty,” Mark Milke takes Pope Francis to task, rightfully, for attacking capitalism while at the same time calling for eradication of poverty. Milke is correct in recognizing the role capitalism plays in eradicating poverty. However, capitalism      ... MORE

Your CAR Could Be 'Spying' On You!

Gathering data, tracking: the new vehicle realities.       As if Facebook, Google and the federal government squirreling away your personal information wasn't enough, now it seems your car could also be spying on you. According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, several major automakers and GPS        ... MORE

The Ways You’re Being Tracked, Catalogued & Controlled

John Whitehead on our electronic concentration camp.  What is most striking about the American police state is not the mega- corporations running amok in the halls of Congress, the militarized police crashing through doors and shooting unarmed citizens, or the invasive surveillance regime which has come to dominate every aspect ... MORE

National Review: The Fifty Year War On Poverty

Great for Democrats, not-so-good for the poor.    This year marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s proclamation of a “war on poverty,” and the progress in this theater has not been encouraging.  Trillions of dollars have been spent, and the number of Americans living in poverty is higher today than it was ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Economic Freedom and Prosperity

Andrew Thomas: The Global Warming Tipping Point Is Near

Al Gore Closes Climate Protection Field Offices.        Malcolm Gladwell's great book The Tipping Point presents the case that sudden seismic shifts in society can result from small events, if the right factors are present.  Tipping points happen when momentum toward an idea builds and finally crosses a threshold where it is evident that a    ... MORE

John Stossel: Equality Versus Liberty

A more subtle lie from the chief.      President Barack Obama says income inequality is "dangerous ... the defining challenge of our time." The pope is upset that capitalism causes inequality. Progressives, facing the failures of Obamacare, are eager to change the subject to America's "wealth gap." It's true that today, the richest 1 percent of         ... MORE

VIDEO: 3 Reasons 2014 Might Be Most Libertarian Year Ever

Jacob Sullum: Pathetic Pot Prohibitionists

The intellectual poverty of war on pot revealed.            On Monday, less than a week after Colorado's state-licensed marijuana shops began serving recreational consumers, the anti-pot group Project SAM thanked three public figures who "have galvanized our movement." One of them was Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair, The New    ... MORE

Historic Deep Freeze Proves Global Warming, Right?

Mike Adams on how everything is evidence.       Global warming is getting worse. It's so bad now that it has thrust most of North America into an historic deep freeze with plummeting temperatures that haven't been seen in decades. This is absolute proof that global warming is worsening, and the way I know that is because the same people  ... MORE

FBI: 46% Of All Drug Arrests Are For Marijuana Possession


Shawn Regan: Lights Out For America's Favorite Light Bulb

Dim political bulbs rule the day.     Happy New Year, America! Your favorite light bulb is now illegal. Well, sort of. As of January 1, U.S. businesses can no longer manufacture or import “general service” incandescent bulbs—the most popular light bulbs in America. Consumers can still buy and use them while supplies last, but the remaining  ... MORE

VIDEO: Charles Krauthammer - How To Derail Obamacare

Voluntary Federal Government Checkpoints Spark Backlash

by Larry Copeland.         A tactic used by the federal government to gather information for anti-drunken and drugged driving programs is coming under criticism in cities around the country, and some local police agencies say they will no longer take part.   The tactic involves a subcontractor for the National Highway Traffic Safety      ... MORE

Sorry, Liberals: Obamacare Won’t Lead to Single Payer

by Peter Suderman.     If you spend any significant amount of time talking to conservative activists who oppose Obamacare, you’ll eventually hear some variant on the theory that Obamacare was never meant to work. Instead, it was meant to destroy the existing health care system, and in the process pave the way for liberals to step in with the   ... MORE

VIDEO: Let's Shuck The Department Of Agriculture

Thomas Sowell: The 'Trickle-Down' Lie

Introducing the Big Apple's new lyin' king.     New York's new mayor, Bill de Blasio, in his inaugural speech, denounced people "on the far right" who "continue to preach the virtue of trickle-down economics." According to Mayor de Blasio, "They believe that the way to move forward is to give more to the most fortunate, and that somehow the     ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Politics And Minimum Wage

Why minimum wage is a maximum folly.      There's little debate among academic economists about the effect of minimum wages. University of California, Irvine economist David Neumark has examined more than 100 major academic studies on the minimum wage. He reports that 85 percent of the studies "find a negative employment       ... MORE

Radley Balko: Dire Civil Liberties Predictions For 2014

The grade and lubriciousness of the slippery slope.      As we come to the end of a year that saw revelations about massive government spying programs, horrifying stories of police abuse, and brazen violations of the Fourth Amendment, I thought I might offer my own grim predictions about where civil liberties are headed in the      ... MORE

Rand Paul Sues NSA Over Sweeping Spying Practices

To protect and defend Constitution taken seriously.      Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is suing the Obama administration over the National Security Agency’s spying practices in an effort to “protect the Fourth Amendment,” he told host Eric Bolling Friday on "Hannity."“The question here is whether or not, constitutionally, you can have a single    ... MORE