VIDEO: Cop Overrules Freedom Of The Press


A 30 year cop makes up the law as he goes to insulate police from media scrutiny.

Aaron Klein: Some Can Appreciate The President's Efforts

Obama gets thumbs up from the Communist Party. It may be early in the campaign season, but the Communist Party USA already has seen fit to endorse Barack Obama for the 2012 election. While noting he is disappointed with "some aspects" of the Obama administration's domestic and foreign policy, Sam Webb, chairman of the Communist Party USA, threw his support  ... MORE

Wendy McElroy: Security Theater Adds A New Act

Coming soon: The Interview. “Where are you going? What is the purpose of your trip? Where will you be staying? Who will you see there? How do you know them?” Anyone familiar with international travel will recognize such questions as a particularly unpleasant aspect of being “processed” by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Soon Americans ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Feeding The Monster

G. Murphy Donovan: The American Animal Farm

Political ideology that would make Orwell cringe. George Orwell wrote his famous Animal Farm allegory about the corrupting potential of socialism in 1943. The novel was not published for two years because the liberal Bloomsbury establishment did not want to offend the new Labour Party majority in London or Stalinist allies in Moscow. After WWII, Orwell ... MORE

Shikha Dalmia: Expanding the State By Executive Order

Obama's top four power grabs. Candidates never keep their promises once in office. But even by the unlovely standards of his political peers, President Obama has pulled a rather impressive switcheroo from the anti-Bush to Bush-plus. He ran on a platform to undo President George W. Bush’s legacy and restore government accountability, even signing the pledge from the ... MORE

VIDEO: Positive Rights vs Negative Rights

Walter E Williams: Cruel Laws

With friends like government, who needs enemies? What does it take to be able to own and operate a taxi and earn $30,000, $40,000 or more a year? You need to purchase a used car and liability insurance. Compared with other businesses, the startup cost to become a taxi owner/operator is modest; that's until you have to come up with money for a license. In May 2010 ... MORE

Iain Murray: Time To Promote Economic Climate Change

Steve Wynn is right!  Among the long string of bad economic news from the last few years, there is something to celebrate: The political consensus in Washington that government could keep on growing at no cost to the growing economy has finally broken down. The size and scope of government is now the defining issue of our time. It is a welcome debate. However, it has   ... MORE

Mark Steyn: 'Life On This Planet' Is About To Change

More change than hope ahead. That thoughtful observer of the passing parade, Nancy Pelosi, weighed in on the "debt ceiling" negotiations the other day: "What we're trying to do is save the world from the Republican budget. We're trying to save life on this planet as we know it today." It's always good to have things explained in terms we simpletons can understand.      ... MORE

VIDEO: Andrew Napolitano - The Story of Money


Judge Napolitano attacks the wisdom of central banking.

Matt Patterson: America - Time To Start Over

Pale and poor are the hands that hold the reigns of state in these times of peril. This must have been what it was like living the 1930's; politicians running around, fingers in their ears, unwilling or unable to confront a rising conflagration that they helped light. Back then, the threat came from a revivified and revanchist Germany. Western leaders stood by while ... MORE