California Bill Would LImit Firings of Medical Pot Users

Californians who use medical marijuana outside of work would be protected from job dismissal due to pot use under a bill that been introduced by State Sen. Mark Leno, (D-San Francisco). he bill, SB129, would make it illegal for an employer to consider either a worker's status as a registered patient or a positive drug test when making hiring and firing decisions.   MORE

Man Versus The State

Economist Walter E Williams reflects on his long career battling big government and advocating for the moral superiority of liberty.

On May 29, 1963, Private Walter E. Williams of the U.S. Army's 30th Infantry Division wrote a letter to President John F. Kennedy denouncing the pervasive racism of the American government ...  MORE

VIDEO: Ayn Rand - The Pursuit of Happiness

Ayn Rand elaborates on Thomas Jefferson's famous phrase.

Overlords and The Internet

After Egypt, will U.S. get 'Internet Kill Swith'?
With reports of Egypt's government completing shutting down the Internet  in the country, talk about an "Internet kill switch" bill in the U.S. has reemerged. Could it happen here?  The bill in question is the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010, a cyber-security measure introduced in June by Sen. Joseph Lieberman.  MORE

CATO Institue: The Case for Gridlock

No action is better than bad action.
In the wake of the 2010 elections, President Obama declared that voters did not give a mandate to gridlock. His statement reflects over a century of Progressive hostility to the inefficient and slow system of government created by the American Framers.  MORE

Economics: The Triumphant Return of Friedrich Hayek

NEWS FLASH: Government spending does not stimulate economic growth
Last year the consensus opinion was that we are all Keynesians now. Virtually everyone in the commentariat believed that John Maynard Keynes’s solution for the Great Depression—heavy government spending to resuscitate the economy—   MORE