What Thomas Jefferson's favorite economist would say. The last time the debt-ceiling controversy arose, it occurred to
me that if the raising the "ceiling" is a mere formality—if in fact
the sky's the limit to government borrowing—it's no ceiling at all.
Hence, I dubbed this charade the "debt sky." Those who favor automatic increases in the "limit"—or no limit ... MORESheldon Richman: Against Government Debt
What Thomas Jefferson's favorite economist would say. The last time the debt-ceiling controversy arose, it occurred to
me that if the raising the "ceiling" is a mere formality—if in fact
the sky's the limit to government borrowing—it's no ceiling at all.
Hence, I dubbed this charade the "debt sky." Those who favor automatic increases in the "limit"—or no limit ... MOREKinsley Guy: Time To Re-Think Our War On Drugs
Rampant crime caused by drug war, not drugs. Now that Colorado and Washington have legalized recreational use of marijuana, it's time for Floridians to start talking seriously about doing the same. Legalization won't come overnight. A recent Quinnipiac University
poll found only 42 percent of Florida voters think recreational ... MOREObama Says Gun Control For Thee; A Virtual Army For Me!
Obama gives self Secret Service protection for life. President Obama signed a law today granting lifetime Secret Service protection to former presidents and their wives. As it stands now, the measure affects only two presidents -- Obama and predecessor George W. Bush. The bill approved by Congress reversed a 1994 law that had ended Secret ... MOREAugusta Chronicle: The Moral Face Of Capitalism
Preserving America. Conservatives are only starting to feel their way around the wilderness. Even in a horrible economy, and facing an administration beleaguered by scandals on the Mexican border, in Libya and in crony “green energy” failures that cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, the conservative message was rejected at the polls in ... MOREJoel F. Wade: Phony Vs. Earned Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is a result, not a vehicle. A study by Jean Twenge of San Diego State University, published in the current issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science, is getting a lot of news this week. Twenge found that college kids today are more likely to call themselves gifted and driven to succeed, while their test scores and hours ... MOREJoe Biden's Political Posturing On Gun Control Measures
by J.D. Tuccille. We'll have to wait until
Tuesday to see the details of Vice President Joe Biden's
2016 presidential
campaign platform gun control recommendations, but already
we know that it's likely be heavy on pandering to the gun-averse
political base, and light on anything that might leave the
administration dangling in the breeze when it ... MORE
EBT Abuse: Government's Cash-For-Drunkards Program
by Michelle Malkin. From New York to New Mexico and across the dependent plains, welfare recipients are getting sauced on the public dime. Drunk, besotted, bombed. But while politicians pay lip service to cutting government waste, fraud and abuse, they're doing very little in practice to stop the EBT party excesses. Where's the compassion for taxpayers? ... MORESales Of Guns Soar In U.S. As Tougher Laws Threatened
Citizens react as government plots against them. As Washington focuses on what Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will propose next week to curb gun violence, gun and ammunition sales are spiking in the rest of the country as people rush to expand their arsenals in advance of any restrictions that might be imposed. People were crowded five deep ... MOREThe Need For Semi-Automatic "Assault" Weapons
By Katie Pavlich. By now, we’ve heard the argument about semi- automatic "assault" rifles: nobody needs one. We’ve heard the only reason why someone would obtain this kind of weapon is so they can kill people, which is far from the truth. We’ve also heard the argument from both the Left and the Right that a pistol is how someone protects their ... MOREGovernment Unable To Define 'Homeland Security'
David Kravets on government's blank check for tyranny. What is “homeland security?” The federal bureaucracy doesn’t know,
and that’s problematic for a government that has been fighting the
ill-defined “war on terror” following 9/11, according to a new report
from the Congressional Research Service. In short, “homeland security” is whatever the ... MORE
Nit Ghei: Higher Wages, Lower Employment
Misguided government makes matters worse. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday laid out a wide-ranging agenda for the year. The first-term Democrat wants gun control, casinos and higher pay for teachers. Perhaps his most economically perilous proposal is an insistence on raising the state’s minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $8.75. ... MORETop 10 Most Dangerous U.S. Government Agencies
The danger within. We have chosen to highlight United States agencies; however, this top 10 list has global impact, as the U.S. has now proven to be the enforcement division of the overarching globalist agenda of centralized control. One could argue that every government agency serves the purpose of stifling freedom and wasting ... MOREJohn Stossel: Government Handouts Foster Dependency
Section 8 recipients become comfortably dependent. The Obama administration now proposes to spend millions more on handouts, despite ample evidence of their perverse effects. Shaun Donovan, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development, says, “The single most important thing HUD does is
provide rental ... MORE
A. Barton Hinkle: The EPA Pushes The Envelope, Again
An institutional culture that sees the law as an impediment. In accusing the Environmental Protection Agency of trying to regulate “water itself as a pollutant,” Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is not showing an excess of exactitude. But his looseness is rhetorical and harmless. The EPA’s is neither. Last week federal judge ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Guns And Freedom
Who is it that seeks to take freedom by force? The right of the people to keep and bear arms is an extension of the natural right to self-defense and a hallmark of personal sovereignty. It is specifically insulated from governmental interference by the Constitution and has historically been the linchpin of resistance to tyranny. And yet, the ... MOREM. Housel: 3 Economic Misconceptions That Need To Die
Regarding goods from China and Middle East oil. At a conference in Philadelphia last October, a Wharton professor noted
that one of the country's biggest economic problems is a tsunami of
misinformation. You can't have a rational debate when facts are so
easily supplanted by overreaching statements, broad generalizations, and ... MORE
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