Steve Chapman: What's Worse Than Horse Slaughter?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. When it comes to government action, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Hold down gasoline prices to help motorists, and you create shortages. Punish landlords to protect tenants, and apartments get harder to find. Invade Iraq to spread freedom, and you get civil war. ... MORESen. Rand Paul: Minimizing Authority Of Judges
The case against mandatory minimums. I, like anyone else, whether a member of Congress or a parent, am concerned with the well-being of our children. We all want to keep our families and our communities safe. We want to see violent predators and criminals put behind bars and punished for the harm they do to others and to. ... MOREWhy I'm Teaching My Son To Break The Law
by J.D. Tuccille. In 1858, hundreds of residents of Oberlin and Wellington, Ohio—many of them students and faculty at Oberlin College—surrounded Wadsworth's Hotel, in Wellington, in which law enforcement officers and slavehunters held a fugitive slave named John Price, under the authority of the Fugitive Slave Act. After a brief standoff, ... MOREWashington Times: Freedom's Just Another Word
In NJ, California and NY, not so much. Freedom means different things to each of us, but in New Jersey,
California and New York, shrinking personal and economic freedom means
shrinking population. In the decade since 2001, New York has lost 9
percent of its population, California 4.5 percent, and New Jersey 5.6
percent. ... MOREDave Kopel: Turning Gun Owners Into Felons
Spouse can't even borrow gun for over 7 days. Public-opinion polls about “universal background checks” for gun sales show widespread support. While President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg talk about “gun sales,” the actual legislation moving through Congress aims to regulate far more than sales. It would turn almost every gun owner into a ... MOREFood Stamp Program Spent Record $80.4B in FY 2012
Nearly $7000 per family of four. During fiscal year 2012, the U.S. government spent a record $80.4 billion on food stamps, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a $2.7 billion increase from FY 2011. (Fiscal year 2012 ran from Oct. 1, 2011 through Sept. 30, 2012.) According to the Monthly Treasury Statement that ... MOREHappily Beyond The Days Of Ron Paul's Lonely Crusades
by Nathan Lewis. On March 14, H.R. 1176, the “Centennial Monetary Commission Act of 2013,” was presented in Congress. It has thirteen sponsors. Thirteen is a good number. We are already beyond the days of Ron Paul’s lonely crusades, of only a few years ago. The bill aims to “establish a commission to examine the United States monetary policy, ... MOREMona Charen: Sowell Does It Again
Another great insightful read from Tom. I plunged into Thomas Sowell's latest book "Intellectuals and
Race" immediately upon its arrival but soon realized that I needed to slow
down. Many writers express a few ideas with a great cataract of words.
Sowell is the opposite. Every sentence contains at least one insight or
fascinating statistic, frequently ... MOREFrank Schell: Where Is Joan Baez When We Need Her?
It's the silent Gen Y that needs her most. Much of generation Y seems to sail in denial, like the skipper
of the doomed schooner Hesperus who would not heed dire tocsins
about the future and an impending hurricane. They seem oblivious
about what is happening to nothing more or less important than
their future. Those not in denial are in ... MOREGlobal Warming: Was It Just A Beautiful Dream After All?
by Harry Binswanger. Like most of you, I yearn for shorter winters, more shirt-sleeve weather, less lashing from frigid winds. As a confirmed New Yorker, I’m not willing to do what millions have done: move to the sunbelt. I want warmer weather here in the Big City. But I’ve grown old waiting for the promised global warming. I was 35 when ... MORESocial Justice: A Solution In Search Of A Problem
by John Steele Gordon. The left has always had a knack for the high-sounding phrase, such as New Deal, Great Society, etc. One that is increasingly in vogue these days is Social Justice. It sounds noble—everyone’s in favor of justice, right?—but when you look closely, it’s nothing more than the old redistribution of income in the name ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: When The Government Goes Bankrupt
What happens when the government goes bankrupt? This question is one that sounds like a hypothetical exercise in a law school classroom from just a few years ago, where it might have been met with some derision. But today, it is a realistic and terrifying inquiry that many who have financial relationships with governments in America ... MORE
ACLU Says Reid Gun Bill Could Threaten Civil Liberties
by Vince Coglianese. As Senate Democrats struggle to build support for new gun control legislation, the American Civil Liberties Union now says it’s among those who have “serious concerns” about the bill. Those concerns have the capacity to prove a major setback to Sen. Harry Reid’s current gun bill, which includes language from earlier bills introduced by ... MOREConor Friedersdorf: Drug War More Immoral Than Drug Use
The case for liberty as a moral imperative. In the Washington Post, Peter Wehner advises
the Republican Party to reassert itself as the anti-drug-legalization
party. "One of the main deterrents to drug use is because it is illegal.
If drugs become legal, their price will go down and use will go up," he
writes. "And marijuana is far more potent than in ... MORE Jonah Goldberg: Is Disability The New Welfare?
Greater numbers of Americans seek benefits. The government in Britain recently did something interesting. It asked everyone receiving an “incapacity benefit” — through a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms — to submit to a medical test to confirm they were too disabled to work. A third of recipients ... MORETerence P. Jeffrey: Stockton Was Murdered
It was an inside job. Were a rational person given the assignment to search this planet to find the best place for human beings to live and build wealth, he might well settle on San Joaquin County, Calif. That is where Americans built a city called Stockton — the municipality a federal bankruptcy judge just declared dead. How did Stockton die? ... MORE
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