Doing so only leads to lost liberty. What laws are we morally obligated to obey? Help with the answer can be found in "Economic Liberty and the Constitution," a 66-page pamphlet by Jacob G. Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. Hornberger offers a hypothetical whereby Congress enacts a compulsory church attendance ... MOREWalter E Williams: No Obligation To Obey Immoral Laws
Doing so only leads to lost liberty. What laws are we morally obligated to obey? Help with the answer can be found in "Economic Liberty and the Constitution," a 66-page pamphlet by Jacob G. Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. Hornberger offers a hypothetical whereby Congress enacts a compulsory church attendance ... MOREVIDEO: The High Cost of the War on Drugs
Just how much do American taxpayers spend to subsidize street gangs?
Sterling Burnett: EPA's Toxic Regulations
An ongoing assault on the economy. Affordable energy is critical for a prosperous economy. Yet, despite the fact that the U.S. is still in the middle of a pronounced economic slump, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is in the process of proposing or finalizing a number of air-quality regulations that would limit energy choices and increase energy prices, thus seriously retarding ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Airport Security vs. The Constitution
Government critics deserve their day in court. You wouldn't think Aaron Tobey and Donald Rumsfeld have much in common. Tobey is the guy who stripped down to his shorts at the Richmond, Virginia airport last December. Rumsfeld is the former Defense Secretary under George W. Bush. Tobey, who was protesting the invasive airport screening practices that have outraged ... MOREThe Superiority Of School Vouchers Demonstrated
by Gary Jason. The failure of the American K-12 public school system has been obvious for decades. Some of us fossils can recall the public uproar that accompanied the release of the report "A Nation at Risk" back in 1987, documenting the mediocre at best, disastrously bad at worst performance of the nation's public schools. The public school special interest groups ... MOREMike Riggs: Gary Johnson Bets Big On New Hampshire
Can a nice guy finish first in the Live Free or Die State? Republican Gary Johnson hopes so. “I’m putting my chips on the table in New Hampshire,” the former two-term governor of New Mexico said today at a National Press Club luncheon. Despite being a no-show in Ames, Iowa, Johnson has rented an office and hired four “young ideologues” as staffers in New Hampshire. ... MOREMark Steyn: The Imperial Presidency
Obama's strikingly Latin American message. Rick Perry, governor of Texas, has only been in the presidential race for 20 minutes, but he’s already delivered one of the best lines in the campaign: “I’ll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.” This will be grand news to Schylar Capo, eleven years old, of Virginia, who made the ... MORE
VIDEO: Quantitative Easing Explained
The Federal Reserve considers another round of quantitative easing.
Phillip Smith: Perry And Romney Are Proud Drug Warriors
while Ron Paul and Gary Johnson are drug war foes. Two of the leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination sought to win votes by talking tough on drugs this week, with Texas Gov. Rick Perry calling for unmanned drones to overfly the US-Mexico border and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney saying the war on drugs must ... MOREVIDEO: What Ever Happened To The Constitution?
Disregard for Constitutional principles has led to coming chaos.
Damon W. Root: ObamaCare and Strict Scrutiny
The long slow death of conservative judicial restraint. In his recent opinion upholding the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s mandate that all Americans purchase health insurance, conservative 6th Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton adopted what used to be a very common conservative legal position: judicial deference. The battle over ... MOREThomas Sowell: For Whom The Bell Tolls
The sour fruits of political correctness. The orgies of violent attacks on strangers in the streets — in both England and the United States — are not necessarily just passing episodes. They should be wake-up calls, warning of the continuing degeneration of Western society. As British doctor and author Theodore Dalrymple said, long before these riots broke out, “The good ... MORE
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