Barack Obama, The Cereal Killer

Administration seeks to protect citizens from their liberty. Food companies are being asked to cut down massively on advertising fatty snacks to children and teenagers. In an attempt to control America's growing childhood obesity epidemic, the long-awaited guidelines, released today by the Obama administration, put pressure on suppliers to rethink how they ... MORE

ViDEO: Andrew Napolitano - High Cost of Gov't Control

Don't Let The Debt Get In The Way Of The Party

by Mark Steyn. The other day Paul O'Neill said that ...     Oh, wait. I suppose I ought to explain who Paul O'Neill is. A decade ago, he was George W. Bush's first Treasury secretary. I have no very clear memory of him except that he toured Africa with Bono and they were photographed in matching tribal dress looking like Col. Gadhafi's Mini-Me twins at a Tripoli sleepover. Other than the dress-up fun, ... MORE

The Radicalness of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"

If you’ve seen the new "Atlas Shrugged" movie but haven’t yet read the book, you may be wondering what the novel itself has to offer. For most people, reading "Atlas Shrugged" is an unforgettable experience. The story is gripping, involving numerous mysteries and unexpected but logical plot twists. The characters are unique--what other book features a philosopher  ... MORE


VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Political Issues


Professor Sowell observes the modern day linkage of education and politics in America.

Steve Chapman: Taking Taxpayers For A Ride

It's often been said of Barack Obama that his policies are "data driven"—meaning that whatever his ideological inclinations, he pays attention to dispassionate analysis of real-world evidence. His approach was a refreshing contrast to George W. Bush and John McCain, with their ostentatious reliance on gut instinct. This administration gives due deference to nerds.  ... MORE

John Stossel: Government Creates Poverty

The U.S. government has "helped" no group more than it has "helped" the American Indians. It stuns me when President Obama appears before Indian groups and says things like, "Few have been ignored by Washington for as long as Native Americans." Ignored? Are you kidding me? They should be so lucky. The government has made most Indian tribes wards of the state. Government manages their land, provides their  ... MORE

Ronald Bailey: Cyberwar is Harder Than It Looks

The Internet's vulnerability to attack has been exaggerated. In wartime, combatants often attempt to disrupt their enemies' supply systems, generally by blowing them up. Modern life is made possible by a set of tightly interconnected systems supplying us with electricity, water, natural gas, automobile fuels, sewage treatment, food, finance, telecommunications, and emergency response. All of  ... MORE

VIDEO: Arbitrary Licensing Vs Individual Liberty

Quick: Someone Take Boehner To Atlas Shrugged

If you happen to be some congressional bureaucrat on the staff of the Speaker of the House and you are reading this, please kidnap your boss and take him to the nearest theatre playing Atlas Shrugged Part 1. Why, you ask? Because in the same week that unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats began their attempt to cost Boeing over a billion dollars and South Carolina a thousand jobs ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: The Trump Card

The boomlet for Donald Trump as a Republican nominee for President of the United States ought to be a wake-up call for Republican candidates and Republican Party leaders alike. Why has Trump surged ahead of other Republican candidates and potential candidates in the polls? It is not likely that his resurrection of the issue of Barack Obama's birth certificate has aroused all this support.  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Evolution To Liberty

Johan Goldberg: Political Cooling On Global Warming

"What the heck went wrong?" That, apparently, is the question roiling the environmental community as it realizes that the fight against climate change has fizzled. As Brad Plumer writes in the New Republic, everything was looking great in 2008 for a sweeping effort to make good on candidate Barack Obama's pledge to start turning back the rising oceans. The Democrats held Congress. ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Smugglers Are Heroes

Smugglers are heroes of sorts. The essence of what a smuggler offers is: "Government tyrants want to either prevent or interfere with peaceable voluntary exchange among individuals. I can reduce the impact of that interference." Let's look at smuggling, keeping in mind that not everything illegal is immoral and not everything legal is moral. Leading up to our War of Independence, the British, under the Navigation ... MORE

VIDEO: Obama Energy Policy Endangers Economy