Rand Paul moves the ball on a long-overdue project. In October 2010, one month before a historic wave of Tea Party Republicans swept into power, Washington’s conservative establishment banded together to spread an urgent message to any would-be budget cutters on or near Capitol Hill: Hands off the military, kids. The $80 million ... MOREMatt Welch: Toward A Libertarian Foreign Policy
Rand Paul moves the ball on a long-overdue project. In October 2010, one month before a historic wave of Tea Party Republicans swept into power, Washington’s conservative establishment banded together to spread an urgent message to any would-be budget cutters on or near Capitol Hill: Hands off the military, kids. The $80 million ... MOREA Case Against Government Bans On Feeding The Homeless
by Baylen Linnekin. During the late 1990s, when I worked as a researcher in the Judiciary Square area of downtown Washington, DC, my job required me to walk across The Mall twice each day to pick up documents at the Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Transportation. En route, I would invariably stop to talk with ... MORE
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Star Parker: Background Checks Won't Make Us Safer
Freedom isn't the problem, people are. In April of 2007, a mentally disturbed student showed up at the campus of his school, Virginia Tech, brandishing two semi-automatic pistols, and murdered 32 students, teachers and school employees and wounded 17 others. Then he took his own life. It was the one of deadliest mass shooting incidents in American . ... MORE
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Walter E Williams: Educational Rot
Schools of education are academic slums. American education is in a sorry state of affairs, and there's enough blame for all participants to have their fair share. They include students who are hostile and alien to the education process, uninterested parents, teachers and administrators who either are incompetent or have been beaten down by the system, ... MORERalph Benko: DHS To Aquire 1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo
Just what is the Obama regime up to? The Denver Post, on February 15th, ran an Associated Press article entitled Homeland Security aims to buy 1.6b rounds of ammo, to far too little notice. It confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security has issued an open purchase order for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. As elsewhere reported, ... MORERick Manning: McCain Goes Whacko Bird
A man whose time has gone. Senator John McCain went all whacko bird to the Huffington Post attacking fellow Republican Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. His fellow Republican Senators crime was to have had the audacity to actually stand up to power and force the Obama Administration to accept that the U.S. Constitution does not allow the random ... MORE
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Rick Moran: Gun Control Efforts Are Dying In Congress
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NY Times Op-Ed: An Ugly Truth In The War On Drugs
Time to advance, not degrade, human rights. This week, representatives from many nations will gather at the annual
meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna to
determine the appropriate course of the international response to
illicit drugs. Delegates will debate multiple resolutions while ignoring
a truth that goes to ... MORE
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John Fund: Minimum Wage Equals Maximum Confusion
Why it hurts the poor more than helps. President Obama made headlines in January when he called for raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9 and tying future increases to inflation. Politically, calling for a higher minimum wage is a winner. This week, New York’s state assembly voted to implement Obama’s plan locally. On the national level, ... MORENicole Russell: Rand's Band Of Brothers
The liberty diehards. Whatever his ideological leanings, surely Shakespeare would have raised an eyebrow at the political scene Wednesday, if only for the content it would have stirred in his creative mind. Though Rand Paul spearheaded an epic 13-hour filibuster, he didn’t fill that time alone. Fourteen other Senators total — including one ... MORE
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Rick Moran: Gabby Gifford's Husband Buys An AR-15
The nauseating hypocrisy of this guy is incredible. When caught red-handed by Breitbart, who tracked down a tip that Mark Kelly, former Rep. Gifford's husband purchased an "assault weapon," here's what the gun control advocate put on his Facebook page: I just had a background check a few days ago when I went to my local gun ... MORE
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Rand Paul: Rising In Defense Of The Constitution
Insisting on a meaningful Bill of Rights. On Wednesday, I rose to begin a filibuster on the nomination of John O. Brennan to be director of the CIA. I stood up with the intent of speaking until I was no longer able to speak. I vowed to speak as long as it took, until an alarm was sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that our rights to ... MORE
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Brian Phillips: The Fallacy Of The 'Living Wage'
It strips some of the ability to make a living. If the advocates of the “living wage” are truly convinced that arbitrary government dictates have no detrimental consequences
on jobs, why don’t they advocate a “prosperity wage”? Instead of
legislating a wage that allows families to “get by,” why don’t they
legislate a wage that allows families to prosper? In other ... MORERichard E. Ralston: The Hydra Of Government Medicine
Only the right principles can save us. We value physicians for their ability to optimize the length and quality of our lives. They value treating and preventing illness, relieving pain and curing disease. Yet the relationship between doctors and patients is increasingly under attack by a relentless government. A hydra-headed monster of multiple ... MOREDomestic Drones To Hunt Gun Carriers In America For DHS
by Cheryl K. Chumley. The Department of Homeland Security has an unmanned drone fleet with technology that can root out civilians who are carrying guns, government documents show. “I am very concerned that this technology will be used against law-abiding American firearms owners,” said Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment ... MORE
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Erik Rush: The Rise Of America's Gestapo
The enemies of the Constitution. On March 4, despite hundreds of Coloradans flooding the State Capitol in Denver and honking horns on the streets that encircle the building all day long, and the presence of 25 county sheriffs opposed to seven Democratic gun-control proposals, the measures all passed the Colorado House along party-line votes. ... MOREBrian Domitrovic: The Sequester That Saved The Economy
Remember stimulus spending? That’s the stuff that the government is supposed to come up with when the economy goes into recession. The idea is that since government expenditures are one part of overall economic output, when private activity wanes, aggregate output, or “GDP” can be maintained. It’s intriguing as a theory, perhaps, but in ... MORE
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