Katie Kieffer: Get The Facts And Save Lives With Guns

Educate instead of indoctrinate.   Teach gun safety in classrooms and leave sex education to parents. Plan B won’t save young people from incurable STDs, but guns will protect women and children from being raped or murdered. The more young people know about guns, the safer our society will be. Rush Limbaugh said on his talk radio   ... MORE

Obama Is Off To Pimp More Spending And Regulation

by Kevin Glass. While Congress investigates the Obama Administration's actions during the Benghazi terrorist attack this week, President Obama will be leaving town to promote his "jobs" agenda in what the Associated Press dubs "a series of day trips." The White House says President Barack Obama's trip to Austin, Texas, on Thursday will kick off a series  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - ObamaCare Overload

Steve Chapman: Surveillance Cameras Are Not All That

A help in Boston, but are cameras really a good idea? Video surveillance cameras have been growing in popularity for years, but in recent weeks their advance has gotten a turbo boost. After helping to identify two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, they went from occasionally desirable to universally vital.  Mayor Rahm     ... MORE

Brian Vanyo: Unsustainable And Unconstitutional Spending

General welfare and political pandering.     According to deficit forecasts in President Barack Obama's latest budget, the national debt will surpass $20 trillion by 2016.  If this occurs (and it is almost certain to occur), then Obama will add more to the national debt during his presidency than all prior presidents combined, despite     ... MORE

VIDEO: There Is A Correct Way To Interpret Constitution

Benghazi Whistleblower Shocked That WH Blamed YouTube

by John Sexton.    In an appearance on Face the Nation this morning, Rep. Darrell Issa revealed several new pieces of information about the Obama administration's controversial description of the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, casting doubt that the White House mischaracterized its cause by mere accident. "The talking points ... MORE

Wayne Winegarden: Treating Alzheimer's With Regulations

Bureaucracy stands in the way of the best treatment.   The U.S. health care system is rife with rising costs and stagnating quality. All too often, the cure for these ailments calls for ever greater government intervention. Such cures misdiagnose the problem. The health care system’s problems are caused by too little patient control, not   ... MORE

The Boston Mindset: Cringe Like Sheep

A reality check from William A. Levinson.    Colonel Jeff Cooper's To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth describes exactly what is wrong with the United States today.  Cooper wrote of the society in which he grew up during the 1930s. Boys were taught to shoot and use their hands, and girls were taught to expect that in their men.       ... MORE

John Stossel: Train Wreck Ahead

The perils of a blind engineer.   Most Americans — even those who are legislators — know very little about the details of President Obama's Affordable Care Act, so-called Obamacare. Next year, when it goes into effect, we will learn the hard way. Many people lazily assume that the law will do roughly what it promises: give insurance to the uninsured   ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Culture And Success

Government Nannies And The New Caffeine Crackdown

by Baylen Linnekin.    The FDA announced earlier this week that the agency will investigate “any and all products with added caffeine.” FDA officials claim they were spurred to take action after the recent introduction of one product, Alert Energy Gum, a new caffeinated gum made by Wrigley. The agency argues that such a novel product   ... MORE

Benjamin Powell: Bangladesh Sweatshops Improve Lives

The reality is counterintuitive.     U.S. companies are rethinking whether to continue sourcing garments from Bangladesh in the wake of the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory that killed hundreds of workers on April 25.  If they do so, most Bangladeshi garment workers will be worse off than they are today.      ... MORE

VIDEO: Locked Up For Drinking Tea While Being Black


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Steven Greenhut: California's Homeless Bill Of Rights

The latest nitwittery from Golden State lawmakers.       The Homeless Bill of Rights, the name applied to a new bill that recently soared through the California Assembly’s Judiciary Committee on a 7-2 vote, is the latest in a long line of California legislation that has grabbed national attention for its sheer lunacy. At the current rate,     ... MORE

Americans Paying For Senseless Regulatory System

Government regulations hinder economic growth.  Why, in the down economy with millions of Americans unemployed, is it so difficult to hire contractors for the routine services the happy homeowner needs? Appliance repairmen in Virginia have permanent signs on their trucks asking for assistants. They turn down new customers like popular ... MORE

Jason Koebler: Tiny Device Will Detect Domestic Drones

Being alerted when robot planes buzz by.  Worried about drones spying on you? Soon, a device might be able to send you text and email alerts that let you know when a drone is nearby. A Washington, D.C.-based engineer is working on the "Drone Shield," a small, Wi-Fi-connected device that uses a microphone to detect a drone's "acoustic signatures"  ... MORE

Congress Wants To Exempt Itself From ObamaCare

by Bob Moffit.  No argument for Obamacare’s repeal can top the simple fact that Members of Congress do not want it to apply to them. Today’s Politico reports that the House and Senate congressional leadership—both Democrats and Republicans working in cahoots with Obama Administration officials—have been secretly negotiating for months trying to   ...  MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - Government & The Consumer

Andrew Napolitano: Obama's War On The 4th Amendment

Here they go again.    The Obama administration has asked its allies in Congress to introduce legislation that would permit the feds to continue their march through the Fourth Amendment when it comes to obtaining private information about all of us. The Fourth Amendment, which guarantees the right to be left alone, was written largely in     ... MORE

Louis Woodhill: The Folly Of Government Venture Capital

Another $171 million taxpayer dollars down the tubes. If you go to www.fiskerautomotive.com, you see a picture of a red Fisker Karma sedan and the words, “Welcome.  New Site coming soon.”  Ominously, if you click on the “Tomorrow” link at the top of the page, nothing happens.  In fact, none of the links on the page produce any    ... MORE