VIDEO: How Property Rights Affect Everyday Decisions

Anna Marie Hartman: Legalizing Medical Pot On ARK Ballot

Freedom for doctors to treat patients.      A proposal to legalize medical marijuana will be on the November ballot in Arkansas. Medical marijuana advocates succeeded in getting their proposal before Arkansas voters after turning in more than 74,000 signatures to the Arkansas Secretary of State's office. The group called Arkansans for  ... MORE

Washington Free Beacon: Battling Obama At The Box Office

Interest in learning Obama's roots catching fire.   A politically charged documentary called 2016: Obama’s America turned heads last weekend when it grossed a whopping $1.24 million out of just 169 theaters. The $2.5 million independent film, which is being distributed by Utah-based Rocky Mountain Pictures, premiered in Houston six   ... MORE

Bill Herrie: Regulations Strangling The Economy

Cut the red tape, please.   According to the federal Small Business Administration, the cost of complying with regulations for the typical small business is $10,500 per year, per employee. A firm with 10 workers, for example, must pay more than $100,000 every year just to remain on the right side of the rules imposed by Washington. That's a drop in ... MORE

What Liberals Don't Understand About Ayn Rand

by Cathy Young.    Ayn Rand, the Russian-born writer and self-styled philosopher who died three decades ago, is back in the news as a favorite author of Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan. In recent years, the passionately individualist, pro-capitalist Rand has been embraced as a champion of freedom by many conservatives ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Economic Decision Making

Ronald Bailey: Energy Regulators Think You're Crazy

New study shows what regulators think of consumers.   Federal regulators evidently believe that Americans are irrationally choosing to spend hundreds of billions more on energy than they should. Consequently, benevolent bureaucrats have imposed regulations to guide hapless consumers toward making the proper energy saving choices   ... MORE

Jason Koebler: Police To Use Drones Against Citizens

Warrantless surveillance deployed.  Law enforcement agencies that have requested permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly unmanned drones plan to use them for surveillance purposes, according to documents obtained by an Internet freedom organization. "With some exceptions, drone flights in the U.S. have been all about     ... MORE

VIDEO: The Hope And The Change

Jury Nullification May Be Only Hope For Raw Milk Farmer

by Dan Flynn.   We are going to have to wait a little longer to see if supporters of Wisconsin raw milk dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger can pull off a rarely used legal maneuver called jury nullification. Sauk County Judge Guy Reynolds has moved the start of the Hershberger jury tail to Jan. 7, 2013. Evidence and witness lists are due Oct. 19, and the final    ... MORE

A Government Of Unions, By Unions And For Unions

by Matt Patterson.    In 2009, the U.S. government bailed out the auto industry, ostensibly to save the livelihoods of thousands of Americans who work for automakers and their supporting companies. Sounds nice, except that this federal largesse was not distributed equally. In fact, some employees who were also members of the powerful, politically  ... MORE

Marine Gets NDAA Treatment: Detained Without Charges

“This should be a wake-up call to Americans that the police state is here.” - John Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute. 
Forced 30-day psych evaluation for Facebook post. Pitting human and First Amendment rights and freedoms against security, a 26-year old former Marine targeted individual was ordered Monday to undergo  ... MORE

Steve Gunn: Just Say No When The TSA Asks You To Chat

A bizarre and outlandish violation of the Fourth Amendment.   I came face-to-face with Big Brother the other day, and it was a frightening experience. He actually presented himself in the deceptive form of a young, attractive female officer, working for the Transportation Security Administration at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. At first she       ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - No, They Cant!

Paul J. Watson: Questioning Authority Is Suspicious Activity

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

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

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