War On Drugs Has Become War On The American People

by John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute. "On July 29, 2008, my family and I were terrorized by an errant Prince George's County SWAT team. This unit forced entry into my home without a proper warrant, executed our beloved black Labradors, Payton and Chase, and bound and interrogated my mother-in-law and me for hours as they ransacked our belongings…  ... MORE

VIDEO: Harry Browne - Economic Consequences

Randazzo & Stansel: The Upper-Class Entitlement

It's time to end the mortgage interest deduction. The federal income tax code is full of complicated deductions, credits, and loopholes, which together exempted $1.2 trillion from taxation in 2009. The single largest benefit, amounting to around 35 percent of the total, is the mortgage interest deduction. This longstanding incentive, which allows individual ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene

The ponderings of a genius. Like so many people, in so many countries, who started out to "spread the wealth," Barack Obama has ended up spreading poverty. Have you ever heard anyone as incoherent as the people staging protests across the country? Taxpayers ought to be protesting against having their money spent to educate people who end up unable to say   ... MORE

Emily Schultheise: Ron Paul Announces Economic Plan

Only a radical plan will avert economic disaster. This afternoon, Congressman Ron Paul released his “Plan to Restore America,” which would cut $1 trillion in spending during the first year of the Paul administration. The plan “eliminat[es] five cabinet departments (Energy, HUD, Commerce, Interior, and Education), abolish[es] the Transportation Security Administration and  ... MORE

VIDEO: Occupy LA - The Pro-Government Protesters?

Destroying Value Is What Government Does Best

by Sheldon Richman. In Cleveland and other American cities homes are being demolished because five years after the housing bust there is nothing better to do with them. Therein lies a lesson in Austrian business cycle theory. In a world of uncertainty, waste — the destruction of value — is inevitable. Human action, which aims to replace inferior       ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: Read My Tea Leaves

Obama spits in the face of state law.  In their October 7 press release announcing "coordinated enforcement actions" against medical marijuana dispensaries, California's four U.S. attorneys use the adjective commercial to describe their targets eight times and refer to profit nine times, not counting two mentions of money and one of moneymaking. You might surmise ... MORE

HOT AIR: Propaganda Created, Saved, and Supported.

Media trumpets specious "saved or created jobs" numbers. The Obama administration’s latest tactic for selling its jobs bill is to claim it will “support” 400,000 jobs (primarily in government). Ed Morrissey notes this metric is as unmeasurable as jobs “saved or created” by Obama’s failed stimulus law, which is a good springboard for underscoring a crucial ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - The Job Killers

CBS BOSTON: Police Feel Free To Enter Unlocked Cars

Who gave them the right? Thieves are finding easy targets on the North Shore: Cars that aren’t locked with valuable items inside. If your car door was unlocked, or an officer spotted your GPS, wallet, or something important in plain view, you might have found a warning on your windshield in Beverly this weekend. Police were willing to stir-up a little proactive controversy to ... MORE

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