Reminder: TSA Still Asking Women To "Raise Your Skirt"

Thong underwear not recommended for air travel. No, women still haven’t gotten used to this TSA practice.  And it’s still offensive, humiliating, degrading, and makes being a woman an unfortunate preexisting condition (thanks, Nancy!).  The TSA asked a female passenger at Philadelphia International Airport this morning to raise her ... MORE

VIDEO: "Don't Tread on Others" vs "Don't Tread on Me"

Don Richmond: Defending Constitutional Principles

No precept may properly be made law if it violates rights. To defend the principles of the Constitution, one must understand what they are. While the Declaration of Independence advocated individual rights, the Constitution was written to form a government that would protect those rights. However, as we know from history, the Constitution ... MORE

Michael Suede: Jury Nullification Becomes Reality in N.H.

Judging the law as well as the facts.  For those of you who don’t know much about jury nullification, basically it’s when the jury finds a defendant innocent because of their dislike of the law. For example, a jury might refuse to convict a non-violent drug offender because they disagree with the fundamental premise of drug laws themselves.     ... MORE

Paul Armentano: Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized

The public is ready for a new approach.   It's time for politicians to call for a truce in the so-called war on drugs. According to a 2010 investigation by the Associated Press, lawmakers have spent over $1 trillion dollars enforcing the drug war. Their actions have resulted in a quadrupling of the U.S. prison population since 1980, but little  ... MORE

John Fund: Off The Rails, Over The Cliff

California's train to nowhere: full speed ahead.  It’s hard to express how sad it was for me to watch, in person, as the state I grew up in committed fiscal suicide. I went down to the state capitol here on Friday afternoon to watch the state senate approve, by a single vote, a $4.7 billion bond package to build a high-speed-rail system from ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas DiLorenzo - Understanding Capitalism

Duncan Holmes: Five Steps To A Police State

Herded down the collectivist path.   Step 1. Take away people’s mobility Step 2. Control how much and how far people can travel. Walter Reuther once called the automobile a great invention, because he said it gave people a fifth freedom. (This was referring to Roosevelt’s famous four freedoms.) What he meant was simple.  It was called   ... MORE

Sarah de Crescenzo: Court Rules Cities Can't Ban Pot Shops

State law preempts municipal bans. Orange County cities fighting to keep out medical marijuana dispensaries may have a tougher time doing so after a Monday ruling affirming the legality of the shops under California law. A three-justice panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled that Los Angeles County's ban on medical marijuana is "preempted" by state  ... MORE

VIDEO: Will Taxing the Rich Fix the Deficit?

AP: Broke California Spends $62 Billion On High-Speed Rail


They can always get a bailout. California lawmakers gave the green light to start building the nation's first dedicated high-speed rail line, a multibillion dollar project that will eventually link Los Angeles and San Francisco. The move marked major political victories for Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and the Obama administration. Both have promoted ... MORE

Washington Times: The U.N. Is Coming For Your Guns

Obama administration is pushing for global arms control. The United Nations is deliberating over a treaty that will place comprehensive limits on the international weapons trade. The language of the draft agreement is so expansive it wouldn’t take an Obama-appointed judge very long to extend the treaty to cover the domestic firearms market ... MORE

John Stossel: The Education Blob

Government schools are monopolies.   Since progressives want government to run health care, let's look at what government management did to K-12 education. While most every other service in life has gotten better and cheaper, American education remains stagnant. Spending has tripled! Why no improvement? Because K-12 education is a virtual  ... MORE

Stephen Dark: Are DUI Checkpoints Constitutional?

About road safety or trawling nets for cops? Tomorrow night, July 6, at 4100 S. State, Unified Police Department and the Utah Highway Patrol will be pulling over cars from 9:30 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. in search of people driving under the influence. But are such checkpoints constitutional? "The big reason for the checkpoint is to protect everybody's safety," ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - The Wisdom Of Williams


Williams speaks on greed, gun rights, education, social security and more.

Homeland Security Sees 'Liberty Lovers' As Terrorists

by Paul Joseph Watson.  A new study funded by the Department of Homeland Security characterizes Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority,” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing” terrorists. Entitled Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, 1970-2008 (PDF), the study was       ... MORE

Brett M. Decker: States' Rights War Over ObamaCare

Conservatives governors say they won't implement it. President Obama, Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Democrat-led Senate and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. don’t care that a majority of Americans favor repeal of Obamacare. To them, government can do anything it can get away with to consolidate federal power; that government derives its power  ... MORE

VIDEO: James V. DeLong On Ending "Big SIS"


Time to end "Big Sis" (The Special Interest State)

Janelle Ericsson: TSA Demands To Test Passenger Drinks

Another victory for the terrorists. Passengers say their problem is not with the rules at the airport. They understand why drinks are not allowed through security, but when they buy one while they wait for their flight, they say the TSA should not ask to test it. Passengers say traveling is a big enough stress, but now some are worried the drinks they are getting are not ... MORE

J. Justin Wilson: Give Me A Large Soda Or Give Me Death

Regulating the Fourth of July.   Isn’t part of being an adult having the ability to choose? You know, such as whether you want to nosh on shish kabob, burgers, or hot dogs at your July 4th cookout? Most people think so. But America’s historical love for individual liberty seems to occasionally clash with our Puritanical roots. The dichotomy is once again rearing its  ... MORE

Lisa Fabrizio: States -- Our Last Best Hope

Escaping an increasingly tyrannical central government. Way back during the interminable weeks between the 2000 presidential election and the final decision in Bush v. Gore, I spent hours upon hours explaining to otherwise intelligent and politically savvy folks just how this country works. Most of these discussions centered on the       ... MORE