Roger L. Simon: Ron Paul Defends Romney & Capitalism
Texas congressman is a rare breed: politically honest. I admit I have been critical of Ron Paul in the past, and still am regarding foreign policy, but I admire his forthright honesty in defense of Mitt Romney today. That’s a rare thing for a politician, particularly in the thick of the fight, but Paul seems to be a man who means what he says, good, bad or ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Rationing Speech To Minimize Thought
Why liberals favor campaign season censorship. Liberals are nearly united against Citizens United. This means they are nearly united in favor of censorship. But that has not stopped the Supreme Court decision from being roundly denounced by everyone with progressive DNA – from the elderly solons at The New York Times to the youthful idealists of ... MORENY Times: Companies Fined For Not Using Unavailable Fuel
Goofy green government strikes again. When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law. But there was none to be had. Outside a handful of laboratories and workshops, the ingredient ... MORE Thomas Sowell: Kodak And The Post Office
Why government works so poorly. The news that Eastman Kodak is preparing to file for bankruptcy, after being the leading photographic company in the world for more than a hundred years, truly marks the end of an era. The skills required to use the cameras and chemicals required by the photography of the mid-19th century were far beyond those of ... MOREPedophiles To Be Given Disability Pay In Bankrupt Greece
Peeping Toms and pyromaniacs to also cash in. Greek disability groups expressed anger Monday at a government decision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories to include pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs. The National Confederation of Disabled People called the action "incomprehensible," and said pedophiles are now ... MOREVIDEO: America CAN Change Its Direction
In 1940, Charlie Chaplin unwittingly made a pitch for Ron Paul.
Bob Aldelmann: Each Chevy Volt Costs Taxpayers $250,000
Green policy = wasting the green from citizen wallets. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy just released a study showing that by the time all federal and state loans, grants, subsidies, and tax credits are figured in, each Chevy Volt costs taxpayers upwards of $250,000. James Hohman, the center’s assistant director of fiscal policy, counted a total of 18 ... MOREWalter E Williams: In Greed I Trust
Have a second look at greed. Last week's column started off asking: "What human motivation gets the most wonderful things done?" The answer is that human greed is what gets wonderful things done. I wasn't talking about fraud, theft, dishonesty, special privileges from government or other forms of despicable behavior. I was talking about people trying ... MORETony Newman: Juries May Declare Peace In The Drug War
Liberty's last stand may take place in the jury room. Should juries vote "not guilty" on low-level marijuana charges to send a message about our country's insane drug policies? Jury nullification is a constitutional doctrine under which jurors can acquit defendants who are technically guilty but don't deserve punishment. As law professor Paul Butler wrote recently ... MORETIME: Regulating the Net Tops Congress' New Year Agenda
This anti-piracy law is a pretense for tyranny. When Congress gaveled for the year in December, opponents of two Internet-censoring piracy bills cheered. Their efforts seemed to have blocked the legislation’s movement. But when Congress comes back later this month, it already has a first order of business: regulate the net. The House Judiciary ... MOREVIDEO: Milton Friedman - Questions For The Professor
On income disparity, minimum wage, school vouchers, health costs and more.
Viveca Novak: Military Donors Prefer Ron Paul
Military personnel support Paul on defense. GOP presidential candidate and Air Force veteran Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) continues to highlight his strong support from members of the armed forces as he hits the campaign trail following his third-place finish in Iowa. And the numbers continue to bear him out, according to research by the Center for ... MORESheldon Richman: Corporatism Vs. The Free Market
Don't blame the "mobility gap" on the free market. “Americans enjoy less economic mobility than their peers in Canada and much of Western Europe.” That’s how The New York Times began a page-one news story yesterday. It is a thoughtful story that offer a variety of explanations—some of them mitigating—for the so-called mobility gap. This subject merits ... MORECollin Levy: Institute of Justice Is Litigating For Liberty
A campaign to restore lost rights. The Republican presidential campaign is at full boil, and among the biggest players are so-called super PACs, political-action committees that can raise and spend as much money as they like. Mitt Romney's version helped ruin Newt Gingrich in Iowa, for example. For that right to free speech (not the ads), you can thank ... MOREPaul Butler: Jurors Need To Know That They Can Say No
Saving individual liberty in the jury room. IF you are ever on a jury in a marijuana case, I recommend that you vote “not guilty” — even if you think the defendant actually smoked pot, or sold it to another consenting adult. As a juror, you have this power under the Bill of Rights; if you exercise it, you become part of a proud tradition of American jurors who ... MORETom Elia: 277,500 Federal Jobs Added Just Since 2006!
Government's malignant growth revealed. It is hard to fathom the enormity of the federal government. With an annual budget of almost $4 trillion, annual deficits of well over $1 trillion, outstanding debt of over $15 trillion, and unfunded future liabilities of well over $50 trillion, Washington has become by far the largest, most expensive organization ... MOREPeter Ferrara: Bloomberg Covers For Government Folly
Media propagandists advance the Democratic Party line. On December 21, Bloomberg News breathlessly reported, "The leading Republican candidates for president have embraced an explanation of the financial crisis that has been rejected by the chairman of the Federal Reserve, many economists and even three of the four ... MOREDaniel Hannan: Crony Capitalism Is Failing
Let's try the REAL thing. The past four years have seen governments throughout the West turn to a ghoulish corporatism, in which selected private companies are bailed out with public money. Understandably, people from across the political spectrum have reacted angrily. The Tea Partiers and the Occupiers are both protesting against the same thing, viz the rescue ... MORETHE BLAZE: Gun Rights Save Another Life
Teen mom gives intruder shotgun send-off. Eighteen-year-old Sarah McKinley and her 3-month-old son were unharmed when two intruders tried to break into their home outside of Oklahoma City on New Year’s Eve. Her husband had died from lung cancer on Christmas Day, and when she realized intruders were attempting to break into her home she had nothing ... MOREBlom and Benko: Return To Gold Standard Is Popular
Gold standard debate could change presidential election. Scott Rasmussen, in October, polled 1,000 voters on gold and found it popular, especially if characterized as a way to constrain big government and big banks. In November, American Principles in Action commissioned the Polling Company to drill deeper into the implications for the early contests ... MOREDavid Harsanyi: Santorum Is A Big Government Republican
An earmark enthusiast throughout his career. Rick Santorum, like most Republican candidates, fashions himself the one true conservative running in 2012. If the thought of big, intrusive liberal government offends you, he might just be your man. And if you favor a big, intrusive Republican government, he's unquestionably your candidate. People are taking ... MOREDon Surber: Obama Backers Getting Rich On Green Causes
Al Gore likes the Fisker. Over the holidays, the New York Times reported: “Fisker Automotive is recalling all 239 of its 2012 Karma luxury plug-in hybrid cars because of a fire hazard.” Not mentioned in the report was the fact that the Obama administration had given this tiny car company a Solyndra-sized loan of $529 million. Banks loans the money with ... MOREJames Taylor: Finding Big Foot, Finding Global Warming
Global warming is causing mutant sharks. “I DO think there’s a ‘squatch in these woods ….” What the heck has happened to science on television? Animal Planet has a show called “Finding Bigfoot,” with a guy looking like he just cleaned out all the pork rinds at the Piggly Wiggly telling us he believes “there’s a “squatch” in these woods….” “Sasquatches DO ... MOREMatt Welch: The Bright Side Of Paul's Third Place Finish
7 reasons why Paul supporters should remain optimistic. For Ron Paul's most ardent supporters, last night's third-place finish in the Iowa caucus was an undeniable disappointment. The dream of boomeranging from an Iowa victory to a New Hampshire resurgence to an anything-is-possible Super Tuesday has now gone to re-write. Being exposed as a state .... MOREObama Puts New Crony Capitalism Mechanism In Place
Bureaucrats to lord new powers over industry. In a defiant display of executive power, President Obama on Wednesday will buck GOP opposition and name Richard Cordray as the nation’s chief consumer watchdog, even though the Senate contends the move is inappropriate, senior administration officials told the Associated Press. ... MORE
MSNBC.COM: 40,000 New Laws Go Into Effect in 2012
Politicians can never give enough orders. About 40,000 state laws taking effect at the start of the new year will change rules about getting abortions in New Hampshire, learning about gays and lesbians in California, getting jobs in Alabama and even driving golf carts in Georgia. Several federal rules change with the new year, too, including a Social Security ... MOREVIDEO: How The War on Drugs Threatens El Paso
US policy is a war on reason. Former El Paso city council member Beto O'Rourke spoke at the Cato Institute's conference, "Ending the Global War on Drugs" on November 15, 2011.
Chuck Neubauer: Gun Makers Baffled By ATF Criteria
Arbitrary and capricious rulings from government. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is in charge of determining whether a gun model is legal, but the agency won’t say much about its criteria. Despite overseeing an industry that includes machine guns and other deadly weapons, ATF regulations for the manufacture of weapons ... MOREGary Jason: Unlimited Domestic Energy...Right Now
America will be a net petroleum product exporter. A rush of recent reports indicate that the explosion of non-conventional fossil fuel production continues to transform the world. (Non-conventional fossil fuel production is the production of oil and natural gas by hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling.) In fact, 2011, will mark a major turning point ... MOREVIDEO: Ron Paul Ad - Believe
GOP party leaders and the media WANT you to think Ron Paul is not electable.
World News Daily: The Most Ignored Stories Of 2011
Inconvenient truths. While the establishment news media brought plenty of bad economic news in 2011, the real story hasn’t been adequately told. The true rate of unemployment and inflation and the real state of the U.S. economy, which is far worse than reported, tops WND’s annual list of the 10 most “spiked” or underreported stories of the last year. At the end of ... MOREObama Signs Historic Assault on American Liberty
BHO celebrates New Year by seizing citizen liberties. President Barack Obama rang in the New Year by signing the NDAA law with its provision allowing him to indefinitely detain citizens. It was a symbolic moment, to say the least. With Americans distracted with drinking and celebrating, Obama signed one of the greatest rollbacks of civil liberties in the history of ... MORE
Walter E Williams: I Love Greed
What human motivation gets the most wonderful things done? It's really a silly question, because the answer is so simple. It turns out that it's human greed that gets the most wonderful things done. When I say greed, I am not talking about fraud, theft, dishonesty, lobbying for special privileges from government or other forms of despicable behavior. I'm talking ... MORE
Katie Kieffer: The Real Ron Paul Stands Up
May I have your attention please? Will the real Ron Paul please stand up? I repeat, will the real Ron Paul please stand up? I keep hearing the same three rumors about Paul: He blames America for 9/11, he’s anti-Israel and he’s pro-Iran. So, who is the real Ron Paul? Does he blame America for 9/11? No, he’s very patriotic. Bob Schieffer recently interviewed ... MORERobert Knight: Justice Dept Seeks To Undermine Elections
Why Voter ID terrifies Democrats. The most consequential election in our lifetime is still 10 months away, but it’s clear from the Obama administration’s order halting South Carolina’s new photo ID law that the Democrats already have brought a gun to a knife fight. How else to describe this naked assault on the right of a state to create minimal ... MOREEdward H. Crane: Why Ron Paul Matters
The one who stands for constitutionally limited government. The controversy surrounding decades-old newsletters to which GOP presidential aspirant Ron Paul lent his name is regrettable. First, it is regrettable because the sometimes bigoted, intolerant content of those newsletters is inconsistent with the views of the congressman as understood by those of us who ... MOREVIDEO: Constitutional Authority for Dept Of Education
Another Jan Helfeld interview exposing liberal hypocrisy.
Jeffrey A. Singer: How EMTALA Crushes States' Rights
Why Medicaid is no longer a voluntary program. It is widely believed that Medicaid is a voluntary program. While this may have once been true, it is no longer the case. Today, states confront the dilemma of having to choose between joining Medicaid or being forced to sacrifice any health care “safety net” for their indigent populations. This is all because ... MOREGreg Beato: The Case For Walmart
NY politicians should drop their misguided war. In late November, New York City fired another preemptive strike against the gathering threat of $4 prescription drug co-pays, organic baby food, and eco-friendly laundry detergent. It came in the form of a report entitled Food for Thought: A Case Study of Walmart’s Impact on Harlem’s Healthy Food Retail ... MORE
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