Thomas Sowell: Shouting Louder

Volume is a poor substitute for substance.     An old-time trial lawyer once said, "When your case is weak, shout louder!" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shouted louder when asked about the Obama administration's story last fall that the September 11th attack on the U.S. ambassador's quarters in Benghazi was due to an anti-Islamic video  ... MORE

VIDEO: You Have A Duty To Protect Yourself


Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke knows the value of gun rights.

Charles W. Baird: On Paying Our "Fair Share"

Marketing legalized theft.      President Obama often asserts that fairness requires everyone "to play by the same rules." He then calls for raising tax rates paid by "millionaires and billionaires," but no one else. Well, Mr. President, you cannot have it both ways. Logically, if we are to enjoy what the Constitution calls "equal protection of the law,"   ... MORE

Emily Miller: The Cop-Killer Bullet Myth

Going after ammunition to get your guns. Give the administration credit for its creativity. The theatrical show President Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. are putting on in their effort to foist gun control on the public disguises a more subtle push to disarm America in the name of protecting cops. On Monday, Mr. Obama invited police    ... MORE

Allysia Finley: Mickelson And The Sports Star Migration

Move from California saved Tiger $100 million.    America's top-grossing golfer Phil Mickelson drove himself into a bunker on Jan. 20 when he said that federal and California state tax hikes had made him contemplate making "drastic changes" in his life—including, it was widely assumed, moving to a no-income-tax state such as Texas or Florida. ... MORE

DEA Seeks Prescription Records Without A Warrant

Eric W. Dolan on the efforts of the ACLU to block them.    The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking to block the Drug Enforcement Administration from obtaining prescription records without a warrant in Oregon. The state of Oregon filed suit against the DEA last year after the agency sought to access the Oregon Prescription Drug Monitoring   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Consumer Scare Tactics

Washington State Prepares Gun Control Nullification Bill

by Mikael Thalen.     As the call for more gun control continues, governors, lawmakers, sheriffs, and citizens across the country are taking a stand. After the tragic Sandy Hook shooting, gun control advocates immediately jumped on the opportunity to dust off old gun control legislation, specifically advocating for a ban on "assault weapons." ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: Drug Dealing And Legal Stealing

Feds try to take motel because guest broke the law.     At the Cosmopolitan, a luxury hotel and casino in Las Vegas, “just the right amount of wrong” is the naughty fun you get for $200 a night. At the $57-a-night Motel Caswell in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, just the right amount of wrong is what the federal government says it needs to  ... MORE

VIDEO: Choose Your Own Crime Stats


EYE-OPENER: Did you know the U.S. crime rate has steadily fallen since 1992?

Walter E Williams: Official Lies

Let's expose presidential prevarication. Earlier this year, President Barack Obama warned that Social Security checks will be delayed if Congress fails to increase the government's borrowing authority by raising the debt ceiling. However, there's an issue with this warning. According to the 2012 Social Security trustees report, assets in Social Security's  ... MORE

LA Times Editorial: The DEA's Marijuana Mistake

Creating a ridiculous circle of denials.    For a muscular agency that combats vicious drug criminals, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration acts like a terrified and obstinate toddler when it comes to basic science. For years, the DEA and the National Institute for Drug Abuse have made it all but impossible to develop a robust body of research on the medical ... MORE

Jim Cardoza: Handing Gangs The Gun Concession

Time for us to check our premises.   The tragedy of the American drug war is not just that it has been a failure. It has been an act of national self-destruction. It is one thing that it failed to diminish the availability of street drugs. It is quite another that it has provided vicious gangs with a lucrative black market funding mechanism while locking up scores ... MORE

Government Targets Vicodin In War Against Painkillers

More pain for patients helps fight drug war.   The DEA for nearly a decade has pushed for tighter restrictions on Vicodin, the nation's most widely prescribed drug. The chronic abuse of such painkillers, and devastating toll associated with this abuse, has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. The agency could get its wish  ... MORE

VIDEO: Political Correctness And Common Sense


Excerpts from a speech by Charlton Heston at Brandeis University.

Larry Kudlow: Obama's Declaration Of Collectivism

Not what the Founders had in mind.   One of the least remarked upon aspects of President Obama’s inaugural speech was his attempt to co-opt the Founding Fathers’ Declaration of Independence to bolster his liberal-left agenda. Sure, the president quoted one of the most important sentences in world history: “We hold these truths to be self-   ... MORE

Louis Woodhill: Time To Bury The GOP And Start Over

Death to clueless conservatism!    In his January 18 article, “Go for the Throat!”, John Dickerson, Slate’s chief political correspondent, called on President Obama to “declare war” on the Republican Party. Calm down, John. There is no need for Obama to get (politically) violent. At the national level, the Republican Party is near death anyway.     ... MORE

VIDEO: Treason - The End of Liberty

Hans Bader: Government Control Is Bad For Your Health

Economic freedom declines again under Obama.      Economic freedom has declined under the Obama administration, and America’s rank has repeatedly fallen on the Index of Economic Freedom and other rankings issued by think-tanks and research foundations. (The Heritage Foundation just released the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom.) In their      ... MORE

A Fisher: 6 Unbelievably Dumb Congressional Hearings

Sex, violence and satan.      In the wake of last December's school shooting, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) has proposed yet another congressional study on violent video games (he's joined in his effort by Nebraska Republican Sen. Mike Johanns). Such studies are typically accompanied by hearings where members of the World's Greatest   ... MORE

Costly State Energy Policies To Raise California Power 33%

Golden State residents to lose more gold.     has been a leader in production, in part due to federal and state level policies that provide incentives for producers of renewable power. However, a new report found that California’s policies will raise state power rates and associated costs by nearly 33 percent.       ... MORE