The Entitlement State Is Morally Bankrupt

by Yaron Brook and Don Watson. After Rick Perry called Social Security a Ponzi scheme, pundits everywhere smugly assured the world that Perry is crazy because, after all, the government can never really go bankrupt: it can always print money to pay its debts. Of course, that’s hardly a comfort to those who know what hyperinflation can do to an economy. In any case ... MORE

Ron Paul: Individual Mandates Make Matters Worse

More corporatism or socialism is not the answer. Today's messed up medical system is a result of 40 years of government interference in the process. Regulations, inflation, tax laws, federal mandates to provide care through corporate-run HMOs, interference in providing insurance, massive subsidies and licensing have all played a negative role in the delivery ... MORE

VIDEO: William F Buckley Jr - Drug Legalization

Walter E Williams: The Financial Mess In U.S. and Europe

Time to wean the people off government. What's the common thread between Europe's financial mess, particularly among the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain), and the financial mess in the U.S.? That question could be more easily answered if we asked instead: What's necessary to cure the financial mess in Europe and the U.S.? If European governments and ... MORE

Gallup: Negativity Towards Government At All-Time High

An immediate threat to freedoms of ordinary citizens. Americans’ views of their government’s job performance have reached a critical level of negativity. The Gallup poll found a record-high 81 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the United States is being governed. The poll showed majorities of both Republicans (92 percent) and Democrats ... MORE

John Stossel: Exciting Schools


Our kids deserve a free market in education. School spending has doubled over the past 30 years. Yet what do we get? More buildings and more assistant principals—but student learning? No improvement. If you graph the numbers, the spending line slopes steeply, while the lines for reading, math, and science scores are as flat as a dead man's EKG. Why no  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Campus Speech Codes


Political correctness vs open speech and academic inquiry.

Energy Independence For America Is Here!

New boom reshapes oil world, rocks North Dakota. A couple months ago, Jake Featheringill and his wife got robbed. It wasn't serious. No one was home at the time, and no one got hurt. But for Featheringill, it was just the latest in a string of bad luck. "We made a decision," he says. "We decided to pick up and move in about three days. Packed all our stuff ... MORE

Gary Horne: How About No Taxes At All?

The unlimited power to tax. Recent debates about who pays taxes and how much miss the point. Instead, people should be asking why the current system allows unlimited power to tax, restricted only by the "wisdom" of Congress. The taxing power of the federal government was debated prior to ratification of the Constitution. The Pennsylvania minority, who ... MORE

Jonah Goldberg: Tyranny Of The Typical

Society and government are not interchangeable terms. And now let us recall the "Fable of the Shoes." In his 1973 "LibertarianManifesto," the late Murray Rothbard argued that the biggest obstacle in the road out of serfdom was "status quo bias." In society, we're accustomed to rapid change. "New products, new life styles, new ideas are often embraced ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Growth Of Government