Stephen Dinan: Amish Farm Shut Down For Selling Milk

Your tax money at work. The FDA won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington, D.C., region after a judge this month banned Daniel Allgyer from selling his milk across state lines and he told his customers he would shut down his farm altogether. The decision has enraged Mr. Allgyer's ... MORE

VIDEO Ted Nugent Sets Them Straight On Gun Control


Piers Morgan get schooled by a rock star.

Walter E Williams: Rising Black Social Pathology

A gross betrayal of the memory, struggle and sacrifice.  The Philadelphia Inquirer's big story Feb. 4 was about how a budget crunch at the Philadelphia School District had caused the district to lay off 91 school police officers. Over the years, there's been no discussion of what has happened to our youth that makes a school police force necessary  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: The Progressive Legacy


A restoration of discredited ideas. Although Barack Obama is the first black President of the United States, he is by no means unique, except for his complexion. He follows in the footsteps of other presidents with a similar vision, the vision at the heart of the Progressive movement that flourished a hundred years ago. Many of the trends, problems and disasters of  ... MORE

VIDEO: Michael Steele On Wealth Redistribution


Socratic interviewer Jan Helfeld brings the former RNC chairman to the bottom line.

Peter Berger: On Blasphemy Laws

Religious groups raise hell over words.   In common usage blasphemy means words and actions which constitute an insult to God or other sacred entities. To the modern mind the term may seem obsolete, a leftover from primitive superstition. It is anything but obsolete to many people in the contemporary world. Toward the end of January two ... MORE

Declan McCullagh: No Fifth Amendment In Cyberspace

Helping to build a case against ourselves. American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled today in what could become a precedent-setting case. Judge Robert Blackburn ordered a Peyton, Colo. woman to decrypt the hard drive of a Toshiba laptop computer ... MORE

Jon Entine: Over-Regulation Fever At The White House

Don’t drink tap water. Beware the coming environmental apocalypse. It’s election season, and advocacy groups are turning up the heat on the Environmental Protection Agency. Will the Obama Administration buckle in this über-political time and give in to alarmism? The target du jour is atrazine, the American farmer’s most popular weed killer, but it’s   ... MORE

Mark Steyn: The Church Of Obama

The president has issued his own Act of Supremacy. Announcing his support for Commissar Sebelius’s edicts on contraception, sterilization, and pharmacological abortion, that noted theologian the Most Reverend Al Sharpton explained: “If we are going to have a separation of church and state, we’re going to have a separation of church and state.”      ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Poverty & Dependence

NRA: Obama Wants To Outlaw Guns in 2nd Term

Caution: unbridled liberalism ahead. A top official with the National Rifle Association said Friday that President Obama will move to "destroy" gun rights and "erase" the Second Amendment if he is re-elected in November. While delivering one of the liveliest and best-received speeches at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington      ... MORE

Ken Paulson: Citizens Have A Right To Record Cops

Imagine Rodney King in the YouTube era. The beating captured on a camcorder in 1991 was seen on at least 240 TV stations around the world, impressive for pre-digital days, and served notice on law enforcement officers that cameras could capture them at their best — and worst. Today, when laughing babies can yield 42 million views.    ... MORE

VIDEO: Liberal Bill of Frights

Steve Watson: Fox Business News Axes Freedom Watch

Info on how to get Napolitano's show back on. The Fox Business Channel has cancelled one of the only shows on the entire Fox News network that was in any way informative or watchable - Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano. In a press release distributed late Thursday, the channel announced that its entire prime-time programming lineup  ... MORE

Sheldon Richman: Insuring The Uninsurable

Pitting conscience against coercion. Controversy rages over the Obama administration’s proposed (and later modified) mandate that all employers—including Catholic hospitals and universities—include free contraception in their employee health insurance policies. Catholic officials object that since their church forbids contraception, the decree   ... MORE

Eric Peters: Unsafe At Any Smoke

You didn't think they'd stop at seat belt laws, did you? Mandatory buckle-up laws set the precedent: Even your own body in your own car is no longer your own personal space. Here's how it works: The government decides that whatever it is you're doing is "unsafe" -- not specifically in your case, just generally -- maybe, might be, could be -- then asserts the legal    ... MORE

RougeGovernment: Is America Crazy Or Is Government?

Psychiatrists invent anti-government phobia. Is America crazy or is the United States government? A new “study” published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry suggests that people holding an intense fear of the government may be suffering from “Anti-Government Phobia” (AGP), whose symptoms include “extreme suspiciousness, conspiracy-mongering   ... MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - Who Pays Social Security Tax?

Mike Kelsey: To Protect And Defend, But Not Prefer


This explains a lot.   Conservatives are often ridiculed for criticizing activist judges who fail to respect the Constitution. We are told that it is not conservative originalists (labeled ignorant and extremist) but rather enlightened liberal judges—with their nuanced understanding of constitutional penumbras—who truly respect the spirit of the   ... MORE

Associated Press: Fighting Sioux Nickname Back At N.D.

Free Speech 1 NCCA PC Police 0.    The University of North Dakota resumed using its contentious Fighting Sioux nickname Wednesday even though it triggered NCAA sanctions, leaving some fans weary of the seven-year fight over a moniker that critics believe is demeaning. A law requiring the school to use its longtime nickname and logo, which shows      ... MORE