Thomas Sowell: Spilled Milk

The EPA's quest to protect citizens from milk spills (at great expense).
Despite the old saying, "Don't cry over spilled milk," the Environmental Protection Agency is doing just that.   We all understand why the Environmental Protection Agency was given the power to issue regulations to guard against oil spills, such as that of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska or the more recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico .... MORE

National I.D.? No, its worse. Much worse.

A system more about control than about security.

I have spent the last few years learning everything I possibly can about biometrics, RFID and the systems and policies our government is using to stealthily lock us into a national ID. Actually, it’s worse than a national ID, it’s international. The whole thing is complicated .... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - The Limits of Power

A subtle lesson about incentives that both the president and the people would do well to understand.

Steve Chapman: Should We Ban Walking While Wired?

Some people with power lack judgment about its proper limits. 

You've had the experience of walking along and negotiating around someone who is walking slowly, weaving or bumping into other pedestrians for an obvious reason: He or she is talking on a cell phone, listening to an iPod or texting on a Blackberry.  And you've had the natural, inevitable response to this annoyance:   MORE

How Do You Shut Down the Internet in a Whole Country?

To silence dissidents, the Egyptian government made a move Jan. 28 that has no precedent: It turned off the Internet nationwide. How did they do it — and could the same thing happen here? According to David Clark, an MIT computer scientist whose research focuses on Internet architecture and development, a government's ability to control the Internet depends ....  MORE

Rand Paul: End All Foreign Aid

 
Tea Party favorite and freshman Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) may have crossed a "third rail" of politics by suggesting that the federal government zero out all foreign aid — including even foreign aid to Israel, America's largest foreign aid recipient over the past 30 years.  MORE