Congress shall make no laws abridging freedom of speech? It's presidential season, so again pundits are indignant that money is spent on politics. Spent by corporations! And rich people! Because the Supreme Court allowed that, "2012 will be a miserable year," says The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne 2012 may be miserable -- but if it is, it won't be because ... MOREJohn Stossel: Regulating Political Speech
Congress shall make no laws abridging freedom of speech? It's presidential season, so again pundits are indignant that money is spent on politics. Spent by corporations! And rich people! Because the Supreme Court allowed that, "2012 will be a miserable year," says The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne 2012 may be miserable -- but if it is, it won't be because ... MOREBrian Doherty: Ron Paul's Clone Army
Spawning new candidates in the mold of Dr. No. As the 2012 race for the Republican Party presidential nomination winds down, the last runner-up standing is Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. This time around, Paul has managed to snag about 10 percent of the overall primary vote (as of late April), up from 4 percent total in his 2008 campaign. He is sure to ... MOREThomas Sowell: The Immigration Ploy
A move to help Obama, not the country. President Obama's latest political ploy -- granting new "rights" out of thin air, by Executive Order, to illegal immigrants who claim that they were brought into the country when they were children -- is all too typical of his short-run approach to the country's long-run problems. Whatever the merits or demerits of ... MOREWhy Free Enterprise Is About Morals, Not Materialism
by Arthur Brooks. It's not an easy time to be a free enterprise advocate in America. For years, we thought we had won. After all, almost no self-respecting public figures call themselves socialists anymore. With the advent of the New Democrats, even America's progressive party was on board with free markets and somewhat limited government. The Reagan ... MORE
Bob Dorigo Jones: Silly Labels, Serious Consequences
Frivolous lawsuits increase product dangers. Have you ever shaved while sleeping? Or used a map on a desktop globe to navigate a boat? Perhaps a better question is: Do you really need to be warned against doing either of those things? Chances are, you answered “no” to these questions. Nevertheless, the manufacturer of a 7-inch ... MORERon Paul's Delegates May Have Loud Voice At Convention
by Seema Mehta. Rick Santorum narrowly won January's Iowa caucuses, and future Republican nominee Mitt Romney finished a close second. But when the state's delegates head to the Republican National Convention in August, most of them will be loyal backers of third-place finisher Ron Paul. His haul of delegates from a weekend Iowa convention is part of ... MORE
Katie Kieffer: Read My Lips: Recession
If you’re tracking the economy, start tracking women’s lips. If they’re red, plump and glossy, then you know that the economy is heading into a recession. With the possible exception of Kim Kardashian, who has millions to blow on 72-day marriages, American women are putting off big-ticket investments like weddings, childbirth or ... MORECharles C. W. Cooke: Doublethink On Drones
From free country to glass house. Something peculiar happens to people who cherish their liberty when machines effect its abridgement: They cease caring. In London, where almost 8,000 closed-circuit television cameras spy on the population without rest or interruption, the people appear to be wholly unperturbed. Even an advertising campaign for the ... MOREWalter E. Williams: Racial Double Standards
Double standards now accepted as politically correct. Back in 2009, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said we were "a nation of cowards" on matters of race. Permit me to be brave and run a few assertions by you just to see whether we're on the same page. There should be two standards for civilized conduct: one for whites, ... MORERussell Cook: Global Warming's Killer Is Critical Thinking
Let's require evidence, not just belief. Is there any issue more dependent on widespread lapses in critical thinking than the idea of man-caused global warming? Nothing wrecks an argument faster than a question revealing a gaping hole in that argument's fundamental premise. Notice the abundantly obvious derailment in this example: "We ... MORESteve Chapman: The Futility Of Chicago Gun Turn-Ins
Attracting cheap guns from those with no criminal propensity. If you've got some clothes you don't need anymore, you can give them to Goodwill or the Salvation Army. If you have an old car, you can call various organizations to take it away. And if you're in Chicago and have a gun that's burning a hole in your pocket, you can get rid of it on Saturday, ... MORE
Record Set By Doctored Data, Not U.S. Temperatures
by James M. Taylor. “Americans just lived through the hottest 12 months ever recorded, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Tuesday,” according to the May 15 Los Angeles Times. Which begs the question, what does “recorded” mean? To most people, the hottest temperatures ever “recorded” would imply that quality controlled ... MOREStar Parker: Minimum Wage Increase DOES Impact Poverty
Raise the cost of hiring and expect more unemployment. The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously observed that “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” It’s an admonition not taken particularly seriously by today’s political left. They embrace, extol, advocate ideas and policies based on what they wish were true, ... MORESarah Shurtleff: Do Checkpoints Make Us Safer?
"Your papers, please." The day after the checkpoint on U.S. 36, my daughter was driving alone through Idaho and was stopped by a state trooper who claimed he thought her tinted windows might not conform to Idaho's requirements. Is this a "lawful traffic contact for some identified violation?" Doesn't sound like it to me. Sounds like fishing. The ... MOREEd Krayewski: Top 5 Pieces Of Good News In The Bad News
Tired of bad news? Just look at it differently. Bad news is nothing new. Just think of the scene in Network where Faye Dunaway flips through the New York Daily News, or watch Bill Hicks’ stand up routine about going crazy while watching the bad news on CNN. “War, Famine, Death, AIDS, Homeless, Recession, Depression,” as Hicks chanted, seems to ... MOREAlexander Baron: Police State -- Attack Of The Drones
Is warrantless surveillance good enough for Americans? America used to be the land of the free and the home of the brave; in recent years it has come more to resemble George Orwell's novel '1984'. A monitoring group has revealed the startling fact that there are now a staggering 64 drone bases on American soil. More are planned. ... MORE
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