Walter E Williams: Its Hard To Be A Racist

Years ago it was easy to be a racist. All you had to be was a white person using some of the racial epithets that are routinely used in song and everyday speech by many of today's blacks. Or you had to chant "two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate" when a black student showed up for admission to your high school or college. Of course, there was that  ... MORE

AP: Feds To Design Health Insurance For The Masses

Central planners to dictate one-size-fits-all medical insurance. The federal government is taking on a crucial new role in the nation's health care, designing a basic benefits package for millions of privately insured Americans. A framework for the Obama administration was released Friday. The report by independent experts from the Institute of Medicine lays out guidelines ... MORE

VIDEO: Obama Presidency by the Numbers


President Obama has been a failure by every measure.

REUTERS: Secret Panel Can Put Americans On Death List

Death by government. American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions, according to officials. There is no public record of the operations or decisions of the panel, which is a subset of the White House's National Security Council, several current and  ... MORE

AP: Feds To Shut Down Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

Gov't decides too much liberty going on in California. Federal authorities in California vowed to shut down dozens of pot growing and sales operations in a major crackdown, saying the worst offenders are using the cover of medical marijuana to act as storefront drug dealers. The aggressive crackdown comes a little more than two months after the Obama  ... MORE

John Ashby: Marching For Shackles And Chains

Willing slaves protest against liberty. History is littered with popular uprisings which overthrow one dictatorship only to turn around and embrace another. From the French Revolution near the turn of the 18th century to what many fear to be happening in the Arab world today, revolutionaries generally know whom they are against, but they fail to define what they are ... MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - Self-Interest & Self-Ownership


Nine minutes of utter brilliance from the Phil Donahue Show.

John Stossel: Government Makes Us Poor

A formula for prosperity.  Here's my fantasy: Libertarians are elected to the presidency and to majorities in Congress. What would happen next? Well, if libertarians were "in charge," you'd have more freedom and prosperity. Freedom frightens some people. They say if no one is in charge there would be chaos. That is intuitive, but think about a skating ... MORE

Aaron Goldstein: 9 Reasons To Nominate Herman Cain

#3. He has never held elected office. Let us assume that the field bidding to be the Republican standard bearer in 2012 will not expand. Let us assume also that neither New Jersey Governor Chris Christie nor Sarah Palin will throw their hat into the ring. Let us further assume that neither Mike Huckabee nor Paul Ryan is having second thoughts. In which case, Mitt ... MORE

Justice Scalia: Americans 'Should Learn To Love Gridlock'

by David G. Savage. Many Americans think badly of the government because of “gridlock” in Washington. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is not one of them. Americans “should learn to love gridlock,” he told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. “The framers (of the Constitution) would say, yes, ‘That’s exactly the way we set it up. We wanted power contradicting ... MORE

VIDEO: Law Enforcement's Authority To Steal


Civil forfeiture laws prove the forces of tyranny are alive and well.

Government Punishes Producers With More Expense

Business gets the bill for extended UIB. WASHINGTON (AP) — States that borrowed billions from the federal government to keep unemployment benefits flowing through the recession now have to start paying those loans back, and they're hitting businesses with new assessments and higher taxes to make that happen. In all, 27 states owe the federal government nearly ... MORE