Avoid revolution, just say no. On the heels of a poll that showed 29 percent of registered voters believe an “armed revolution” may be needed in America to restore liberties, a second poll indicates Americans already have figured out a solution – reject federal laws that are unconstitutional. The previous poll by Fairleigh Dickinson ... MORE
by Evan Feinberg. Young Americans looking for work could receive another crushing blow this week as the U.S. Senate will decide Thursday whether to confirm Thomas Perez as the next secretary of labor. Perez has been touted as President Obama's point man for a national minimum wage increase that will disproportionately harm Millennials. ... MORE
Cal Thomas on taxing Internet sales. In 1998 when President Clinton signed the bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibited state and local taxation of Internet access and Internet-only services, the purpose was to promote the commercial potential of the Internet, especially for start-ups and small businesses. Congress extended ... MORE
In doing so, they turn smart people into morons. If there is ever a contest for words that substitute for
thought, “diversity” should be recognized as the undisputed world
champion. You don’t need a speck of evidence, or a single step of logic,
when you rhapsodize about the supposed benefits of diversity. The
very idea of testing this ... MORE
Daniel J. Mitchell on the Internet Sales Tax. I’m either a total optimist or a glutton for punishment. I recently explained the benefits of “tax havens” for the unfriendly readers of the New York Times. Now I’m defending a different form of tax competition for CNN, another news outlet that leans left. In this case, the topic is whether states can reach ... MORE
A fed crackdown would backfire. This week the Colorado General Assembly put the finishing
touches on
legislation aimed at taxing and regulating the commercial
distribution of marijuana for recreational use. The process has
been haunted by the fear that the federal government will try to
quash this momentous experiment in pharmacological ... MORE
Emily Alpert on a Pew Research study. Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show. Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, according to a ... MORE
Is religion 'free' to spend tax dollars? Northwest Rankin High School in Flowood, Mississippi is under fire for allegedly forcing its students to attend and listen to Christian lectures during three assemblies held in April alone. Worse yet, students were barred from leaving and teachers blocked the exits to prevent any of them from doing so. A lawsuit ... MORE
by Gene Healy. There's a specter haunting America's youth, President Obama warned in his commencement address to Ohio State University graduates Sunday -- the specter of "cynicism." In Obama's account, sinister (but unnamed) "voices" have been busily corrupting the once-idealistic Generation Y with a siren song of "creeping cynicism" toward ... MORE
Danger ahead. If you are driving along and suddenly see a big red rubber ball come bouncing out into the street, you might want to put your foot on the brake pedal, because a small child may well come running out into the street after it. We all understand that an inexperienced young child who has his mind fixed on one thing may ignore other things that ... MORE
Obama doesn't want you to worry about tyranny. On Sunday, President Obama delivered the commencement address at Ohio State University. He once again gave voice to the essential element of his philosophy of government: Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn
of government as nothing more than some ... MORE
by Mike Maharrey. Day after day, the media pounds out a relentless drumbeat against nullification. Pundits, commentators and so-called legal experts demonize it as
unconstitutional, villainize it as racist and trivialize it with slurs
like “wacky” and “kookie.” But while the political class continues to arrogantly ridicule Madison and Jefferson’s ... MORE
Voting with your feet. Forty-three million Americans moved from one state to another between 1995 and 2010 — about one-seventh of Americans. It's good that we can move! Moving provides one of the few limits on the megalomania of state bureaucrats. Americans have moved away from high-taxed, heavily regulated states to lower-taxed, ... MORE
Once ObamaCare is law, there will be hell to pay. As the administration struggles to put in place the final, complex piece of President Obama’s signature health care law, an endeavor on a scale not seen since Medicare’s
creation nearly a half-century ago, Democrats are worried that major
snags will be exploited by Republicans in ... MORE
by Nicole Flatow. In several West Coast cities, federal officials are initiating a new round of crackdowns against dispensaries that are seemingly complying with state medical marijuana law. In Seattle, 11 dispensaries received shutdown warnings. In San Francisco, almost half of the city’s small number of state-licensed dispensaries received ... MORE