Check Out The Drastic Price Increases On These 21 Items

It's not just gas!    Tuesday’s presidential debate touched on some massive economic issues that are affecting all Americans. The immense increase in gas prices was a crucial part of the discussion, but have other everyday products seen a drastic increased in price over the same time period?  According to Blaze research on data provided by the   ... MORE

California's Bankrupt Energy Economy Is Obama's Model

by Larry Bell.   Beware of the warning that “where California goes, so goes the nation”, particularly when it comes from EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. Speaking in October, 2009 at the Governor’s Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles, she touted the fact that climate change regulations involving national fuel economy and greenhouse gas   ... MORE

VIDEO: FOX NEWS: Your Tax Dollars At Work

John Stossel: Bad Rules

Licensing individual liberty.     We take free speech for granted in America, unlike elsewhere. The furor over that anti-Muslim video is the latest reminder of that. But freedom of speech is never safe, even here. Many colleges now impose "civility codes." Civility is nice, but enforcing a "civility rule" against offensive speech would put an end to lots   ... MORE

John Whitehead: Breeding Grounds For Compliant Citizens

Where American schools excel.      “[P]ublic school reform is now justified in the dehumanizing language of national security, which increasingly legitimates the transformation of schools into adjuncts of the surveillance and police state… students are increasingly subjected to disciplinary apparatuses which limit their capacity for critical    ... MORE

VIDEO: How Romney Can Appeal to Libertarians

Another State Considers ObamaCare Nullification

by Mike Maharrey.   Since the Supreme Court rendered its opinion on the constitutionality of a mandatory federal health care system last summer, many Americans consider the matter settled. But others recognize that despite the pronouncement of five robed federal employees, the Constitution still does not delegate Congress the power to create and run a health ... MORE

SF Gate: Most Expired Drugs Work Fine

Most expired drugs remain potent for decades. Thinking about going through your medicine cabinet and throwing out all your expired prescriptions? That might not be necessary, according to a UCSF-led study. Researchers analyzed eight prescription drugs with 15 active ingredients that expired between 28 and 40 years ago and found  ... MORE

Ross Kaminsky: Malala Versus Sandra

What a nation of plunderers we have become.   Malala Yousafzai can't speak for herself, and it remains to be seen whether she ever will again. For the crime of going to school -- and blogging about it -- she was shot in the head by a Taliban assassin while in her school bus. Yousafzai, now 14, knew the risk she was taking when at the age of 11 and   ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene

Observations from a keen eye.   Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.      Economist Edward Lazear has cut through all of Barack Obama's claims about "creating jobs" with   ... MORE

VIDEO: Susan Jacoby - The Dumbing Down Of America

AP: Marijuana Backers Courting Conservatives

What happened to the clamor for 'states' rights?      It's not all hippies backing November's marijuana legalization votes in Colorado, Oregon and Washington. Appealing to Western individualism and a mistrust of federal government, activists have lined up some prominent conservatives, from one-time presidential hopefuls Tom Tancredo ... MORE

Kevin D. Williamson: The Last Radicals

Homeschoolers occupy the curriculum.       There is exactly one authentically radical social movement of any real significance in the United States, and it is not Occupy, the Tea Party, or the Ron Paul faction. It is homeschoolers, who, by the simple act of instructing their children at home, pose an intellectual, moral, and political challenge to the ... MORE

VIDEO: How Cops Legally Steal Innocent People's Money


Civil forfeiture provides incentive for government abuse.

Matt Cover: Obama Bailout Claim Off By $24 Billion

Obama: "got back every dime."  CBO: lost $24 billion. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that “we got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system." According to the Congressional Budget Office, however, the government will lose about $24 billion on the bailout. “We got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system, but    ... MORE

Ron Paul: Keeping Up Statistical Appearances

Could the real unemployment be 22 percent?      Last week, supporters of the current administration rejoiced over job numbers released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS).  For the first time since the administration came to power, the official unemployment number fell below 8%.  Keynesian cheerleaders all claimed the  ... MORE

Shikha Dalmia: ObamaCare's Rationing By Another Name

About the Independent Payment Advisory Board.  The stunning post-debate reversal in Mitt Romney’s fortunes may not last through the elections. But win or lose, he’ll do the country a big favor if he continues to expose the Independent Payment Advisory Board—the beloved center-piece of Obamacare—for what it is: An effort to give an ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: Dagny Taggart Goes To War

The battle for freedom. Dagny Taggart is not just the entrepreneurial heroine of Ayn Rand’s magnum opus novel, Atlas Shrugged. She is the inspiration of real women everywhere who are taking up her shield and fighting her battle for freedom using the weapons of entrepreneurship, education and free speech. The media continually talks about the ... MORE

VIDEO: Liberty & Virtue

Walter E Williams: Poverty Nonsense

Bad decisions can be hazardous to your economic health. Here's a recent statement frequently suggested by leftist academics, think tank researchers and policymakers: "People were not just struggling because of their personal deficiencies. There were structural factors at play. People weren't poor because they made bad decisions. They were poor  ... MORE

Zack Fulkerson: Privacy Under Attack

TSA and police drag 4th Amendment through the mud.    The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America reads: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,  ... MORE