VIDEO: John Stossel - Too Many Laws

Apple Shows It Is Time To Abolish Corporate Tax

by Evan Soltas.    Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple Inc., came to the U.S. Senate on May 21 to advocate an overhaul of the nation's corporate tax code. Tax profits at 20 percent, Cook said, and offer no loopholes, no deductions, no complexities. The recommendation might seem radical. It isn't. Apple might be a visionary in consumer    ... MORE

George Will: Obama Regime's War On Campus Speech

'Alice in Wonderland' coercion.   Barack Obama, vowing to elevate Washington to the level of his fastidiousness, came from Chicago, where the political machine inoculates itself from scandals by the proliferation of them: Many scandals mean merely cursory scrutiny of most. Now, notice the scant attention being given to an assault on civil   ... MORE

VIDEO: Obama Expands Militarization Of Police

IRS Scandal Shows Importance Of Privacy Protections

by Phil Kerpen.    IRS apologists are furiously trying to change the subject from the outrageous targeting of political opponents by the IRS to a policy debate over forced disclosure of contributions to groups that engage in political speech. The story is that a deluge of applications forced the IRS to cut corners and the targeting scandal was an  ... MORE

Policing For Profit Is A Civil Liberties Nightmare

by Stewart M. Powell.    Federal asset forfeiture is both an effective crime-fighting tool and a civil-liberties nightmare that has victimized many innocent citizens, a Hearst investigation has found. Fifteen federal agencies have the power to seize assets. Over the past dozen years, those agencies have taken more than $20 billion in cash,      ... MORE

Freedom Isn't Free


DOJ Wanted Indefinite Tracking Of Fox Reporter's Email

A chilling effect on a once free press.      U.S. prosecutors asked a judge to defer indefinitely notifying a Fox News reporter his email was being monitored in a national security probe, records indicate. Court documents unsealed this week show U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ron Machen argued in 2010 the normal practice of       ... MORE

Uncle Sam Wants You ... Under His Thumb

by Jim Yardley.      It's really difficult to keep track of the many ways that the Obama administration is chipping away at the freedoms and independence that were the foundations of our nation, bequeathed to us as a birthright. Let's just summarize the more egregious behavior of our Beloved Leader and his Apostles.  Fast and Furious: The        ... MORE

VIDEO: Lt. Col. Allen West - Liberal Compassion

Bill O'Reilly: Assessing Blame

Why Kerry looks at us in a daze.     So there I am coaching third base for my 9-year-old son's little league team. Man on second, one out. The batter hits a ground ball to third, and the fielder promptly boots it, so I send the runner in to home plate. He's ahead of the ball -- and then, suddenly, the KID STOPS RUNNING! He's tagged out. We lose by  ... MORE

Dr. Milton R. Wolf: Tyranny In Our Time

American must repudiate the political class.     Americans are beginning to recognize the disturbing similarities between President Obama and the fallen Richard Nixon, but the comparison that may matter more is between Mr. Obama and King George III. “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to  ... MORE

VIDEO: District Of Corruption (Movie Trailer)


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IRS Scandal Highlights The Dangers Of Big Government

Taxing power as a weapon.     It’s hard to believe, but the current tax scandal will eventually fade away just as all Washington, D.C. scandals run their course. It’s easier to believe that the IRS will remain a loathsome and abusive agency, subject perhaps to some reforms and personnel changes that ultimately will do nothing to change its character.   ... MORE

Dear Graduates: Tyranny Is Right Around The Corner

by Andrew Napolitano.     A few weeks ago, President Obama advised graduates at Ohio State University that they need not listen to voices warning about tyranny around the corner, because we have self-government in America. He argued that self-government is in and of itself an adequate safeguard against tyranny, because voters can be    ... MORE

Barry Friedman: Guns, Pot And States Rights

Regulation is not prohibition.   Kansas recently adopted a so-called "Second Amendment Protection Act." The law provides that Kansans can ignore any federal law that attempts to regulate guns in Kansas if the guns in question were made in Kansas and stay there. It would apply, for example, to a federal ban on assault weapons. Yet more      ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - Economics And Personal Liberty

Phyllis Chester: The Crisis Of Individualism

A death knell for free thought?   Suddenly, the price of speaking one’s mind has gotten very high. You may agree on every issue save one; dare to share your independent or dissident view—and you might shut down the conversation or lose all your friends. Since this kind of censorship and self-censorship has been going on for some    ... MORE

Washington Times: Another Crony For The Cabinet

The puppet show continues.    President Obama’s choice of Hyatt hotel heiress Penny Pritzker as secretary of commerce, to be taken up Thursday by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, puts Democrats on the panel between that famous rock and a hard place. Like the loyal soldiers they are, the panel’s 13     ... MORE

VIDEO: What Libertarians Mean By "The Free Market"