A. Barton Hinkle: Everything Fun Is Illegal In Virginia

Warning: no fornication allowed.   Only one or two centuries late, Virginia lawmakers have decided it is none of their business if unmarried couples share a roof. So the legislators are now working diligently to repeal the state’s law against “lewd and lascivious cohabitation.” Huzzahs all ’round for that. But do not unclutch thy bodice yet. Virginia law  ... MORE

The Relentless March Of The U.S. Police State

by Robert Higgs.    Jonathan Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University, wrote recently: An authoritarian nation is defined not just by the use of authoritarian powers, but by the ability to use them. If a president can take away your freedom or your life on his own authority, all rights become little more than a discretionary grant subject   ... MORE

VIDEO: Milwaukee Cop Bullies A Citizen For Sport


POLICE STATE AMERICA: A "public servant" commands a lawful citizen to leave a public street.

Katie Kieffer: How Gays And Women Get Their Own Way

Should strive toward equality, not social acceptance.   Gays can be leaders. Women can be leaders. Without realizing it, I think gays and women inadvertently work against their own objective of equality when they force private organizations to support gay and female leaders. As I wrote here, gays and women are already equal   ... MORE

Corey Rangel: Student Suspended Over Picture Of Gun

Political correctness run amok.   A high school student in Florence said he has been suspended because of a picture of a gun. Daniel McClaine Jr., a freshman at Poston Butte High School, said he saved the picture as his desktop background on his school-issued computer. A teacher noticed it and turned him in. The picture shows an AK-47 ... MORE

How Litigation Threatens Professional Football

by Steve Chapman. Professional football is the most popular spectator sport in America, which is one reason yesterday’s Super Bowl was expected to draw 110 million viewers. With its famous athletes, storied franchises, and lucrative TV contracts, it's an industry whose future appears limitless. But football has a problem: the specter of mass brain  ... MORE

Bill Would OK Internet Gambling Across State Lines

by Hannah Dreier.  The nation's gambling capital is taking steps to make sure it is not dealt out of the lucrative online poker market as more states enter the bourgeoning industry. Soon after the Nevada Legislature begins its four-month session on Monday, lawmakers are expected to begin debating a bill that would let companies  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Texas Vs California Economic Policy

Sara Sorcher: When Can The Government Kill Americans?

The White House Won't Say.        Sen. Ron Wyden has spent two years demanding that the Obama administration share its legal opinions justifying the targeted assassinations of suspected American terrorists abroad. After all, as a member of the Intelligence Committee, the Oregon Democrat is entitled (and cleared) to know. How can his panel   ... MORE

Gene Johnson: Effort Building To Change US Pot Laws

A federal pot tax?    An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax. While passage this year could be a longshot, lawmakers from both parties have been quietly working on several bills, the first of which Democratic Reps. Earl Blumenauer   ... MORE

VIDEO: Why Are Voters So Uninformed?

Rand Paul To Take On TSA Once Again

Privatize security.    We’ve complained long and hard about the TSA and it’s terrible “security” practices for years. It’s a horrible agency that should have never been instituted. Fortunately, Rand Paul is on the case: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he will very likely re-introduce legislation to drastically scale back the Transportation Securities        ... MORE

All You Need To Know About "Assault Rifles"

Scare terms and reality.  There are many articles on the internet where people can learn the origins of the term “assault rifle”, so I won’t go into that here. Nor will I get into the topic of gun control effectiveness. Larry Correia has done such a good job here that anything I add would be redundant. “You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what   ... MORE

IRS: Cheapest ObamaCare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family

by Matt Cover.      In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a family will cost $20,000 for the year. Under Obamacare, Americans will be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS. The IRS's assumption that the      ... MORE

David Bier: The Coming National Identification System

Big Brother is watching you.      “Maybe we should just brand all the babies.” With this joke, Ronald Reagan swatted down a national identification card — or an enhanced Social Security card — proposed by his attorney general in 1981. For more than three decades since, attempts to implement the proposal have all met with failure, but now         ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - A Philosophy Of Self-Ownership

Baylen Linnekin: Food Freedom Vs. Regulatory Busybodies

The state of things are looking up.   While national stories like the multi-pronged assault on energy drinks and the FDA’s proposed Food Safety Modernization Act rules rightly grab headlines—and often my attention—it’s perhaps too easy to overlook the fact that much of what’s good and bad in the area of food law and policy is taking place in our backyards    ... MORE

Mike Riggs: The Pot Reform Movement Picks Up Speed

Four more states to reform pot laws in 2013. It's been only two months since Washington and Colorado voters legalized recreational marijuana, but the advocates who raised millions to pass Amendment 64 and Initiative 502 aren't wasting time celebrating. In addition to helping craft the rules and regulations in the Centennial and Evergreen   ... MORE

VIDEO: Nanny of the Month - Jan 2013


Busybodies minding your own business. Will it be permits for strippers or prison for smokers?

Devin Brian: Price Gouging On Guns?

Where is the outrage? Every time there is a natural disaster of some sort, gas station owners are considered monstrous for raising prices to coincide with increased demand of their scarce resources. However, I have not heard anyone calling for the immediate lynching of those greedy gun shop owners who have doubled or even tripled prices on    ... MORE

Donald Lambro: Economy Progresses Downward

Americans re-elected this recession.    When millions of voters went to the polls in November to narrowly re-elect Barack Obama, the economy was rapidly shrinking toward recessionary levels. In the last three months of 2012, the gross domestic product — the measurement of everything America produces — fell to an annualized rate of 0.1 percent, the      ... MORE