Man kicked off flight for anti-TSA shirt. A man and his wife were treated as potential terrorists and kicked off a Delta Airlines flight over a satirical T-shirt because it made passengers and employees feel “very uncomfortable”. Writing on his blog, Arijit Guha describes how he was flying out of Buffalo-Niagara Airport after attending his wife’s ... MORE
John Stossel: Who Is Paul Ryan?
Does he really believe in the free market? I wanted to like Paul Ryan. Before he was nationally known, Rep. Ryan visited me at ABC, and we went to lunch. He was terrific. He was a rare politician, one who actually cared about America's coming debt crisis and the unfairness of entitlements. He even talked about F.A. Hayek's "The Road to ... MORE
VIDEO: US Prison Population: The Largest in the World
Many incarcerated for statutory crimes in which no one's rights were violated.
Ted Nugent: Crimes Against Gibson Guitars
Uncle Sam is Uncle Sham. My all-American sonic-bombast weapon of choice for 50 years has been those world-class pieces of musical art, the mighty Gibson guitar. I own a stunning arsenal of them. It wouldn’t surprise me if some Fedzillastooge from Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s Department of Gunrunning Injustice will try to tell us American ... MORE
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There's No Magic To Lowering Prices And Raising Quality
by Christopher J. Conover. One of the sharpest dividing lines between conservatives and liberals is whether or not markets can work in medicine. Progressives admit to being "deeply suspicious of the claim that a health care system dominated by powerful vested interests and mystifying in its complexity can be tamed by consumers who are strapped for ... MORE
Andrew Bernstein: Intensify The War On Drugs
But in a radically new form. The War on Drugs must forcefully continue. Toxic drugs destroy lives. No rational person wants to kill himself on drugs—or witness innocent others kill themselves in similar manner. The first step of a rational, morally proper, and effective war on drugs is to fully legalize all drugs for consenting adults. The government’s ... MORE
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Thomas Sowell: A Powerful Movie
Insight into the messiah. Years, and sometimes decades, pass between my visits to movie theaters. But I drove 30 miles to see the movie "2016," based on Dinesh D'Souza's best-selling book, "The Roots of Obama's Rage." Where I live is so politically correct that such a movie would not even be mentioned, much less shown. Every seat in the theater... MORE
VIDEO: Property Rights Up In Smoke
Liberty is lost incrementally.
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Thomas Sowell: "Issues" Or America?
Obama reelection means arbitrary rule by decree. There are some very serious issues at stake in this year's election — so many that some people may not be able to see the forest for the trees. Individual issues are the trees, but the forest is the future of America as we have known it. The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being ... MORE
Government Spending Cuts Are Bad For The Economy?
by Tyler Watts. “Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines,” laments the gruff air traffic controller played by Lloyd Bridges in the ribald disaster-spoof Airplane! Facing the tense situation of helping a nerve-wracked pilot safely land a large passenger jet, “Steve McCroskey” could get a performance boost by popping some pep ... MORE
Investors Business Daily: Fracking Leads To Cleaner Air
The greatest story never told. Carbon emissions in the U.S. have hit a 20-year low due to a supposedly environmentally unfriendly drilling technique that has created an abundance of cheap natural gas. The free market, it seems, does it better than the EPA. Environmentalists find themselves between shale rock and a hard place after a ... MORE
Erica Martinson: Court Strikes Down EPA Pollution Rules
Court agrees federal bureaucracy goes too far. In a rebuke to the Obama administration, a federal court took a hammer Tuesday to a controversial EPA regulation aimed at forcing states to be “good neighbors” on air pollution. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said Tuesday that the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule ... MORE
Daily Mail: Stealth Mailbox Cameras Raking In The Revenue
The tactics of public servants or public masters? The speed traps in the surrounding counties of Washington D.C. are going stealth, forgoing the clunky cameras of yesteryear and embracing an unobtrusive model to catch fast drivers. Montgomery and Prince George's County law enforcement officials hope that the new 'mailbox'-like models ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Educational Lunacy
Taming the barbarians. If I were a Klansman, wanting to sabotage black education, I couldn't find better allies than education establishment liberals and officials in the Obama administration, especially Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who in March 2010 announced that his department was "going to reinvigorate civil rights enforcement." For Duncan, the civil ... MORE
Don Watkins: Atlas Shrugged Is Required Reading
The promise of freedom from welfare enslavement. It's not often that an American election sparks debate about a philosopher. But ever since Mitt Romney announced his selection of Paul Ryan as his vice presidential candidate, talk has turned to the ideas of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand. Ryan is on record as being a fan of Rand's, and although ... MORE
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Art Carden: Isn't It High Time We Legalize Marijuana?
Filling prisons and ruining lives is not winning. On a couple of different occasions, I have used this space to call for an end to the economic, moral, and cultural disaster that is the drug war (1, 2, 3). American governments at all levels have been fighting the war on drugs for over four decades now, and it’s overwhelmingly clear that ... MORE
VIDEO: How Government Regulation Kills Opportunity
Are government regulators public servants or public masters?
Gary DeMar: How Government Creates Unemployment
Economics isn’t hard, unless you’re a liberal. Before Paul Ryan was picked by Mitt Romney to be his running mate, there was speculation that New Jersey governor Chris Christie was in the running. Republican governor Christie mocked a network graphic insisting that 55 percent of New Jersey residents think he would be the VP pick and 68 ... MORE
Government-Subsided Automaker Recalls Hybrid Firetrap
by Becket Adams. Electric-car maker Fisker Automotive is recalling all of its $100,000 Karma sports sedans to fix cooling fans that can catch fire. The recall comes after Fisker and a private fire investigation firm finished probing an Aug. 10 fire in a Karma in Woodside, Calif. It was the second of its kind. The company said the probe found that the blaze started in ... MORE
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