Matt Welch: Why Big Government Is Offensive

The increasingly invasive activities of the state stinks.    I was hoping to make it through life without hearing television commentators repeatedly utter the word transvaginal. Yet that intimate territory is where the country headed in February, and it is where we will increasingly return as long as the government keeps assuming a greater role in our private ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Media Dishonesty And Race Hustlers

Inflaming passions to push a self-serving agenda.    When NBC's "Today" show played the audio of George Zimmerman's call to a Sanford, Fla., police dispatcher about Trayvon Martin, the editors made him appear to be a racist who says: "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black." What Zimmerman actually said was: "This guy looks like he's up to no good  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Technically, That's Illegal


Politicians keep Americans in a perpetual state of lawbreaking.

Debra Saunders: Obama, The Happy Drug Warrior

The president's war against the states. Why is the federal government under President Obama arguably tougher on medical marijuana operations than it was under George W. Bush? That's the question that antidrug-war groups have been asking themselves for months. In 2008, antiprohibitionists thought an Obama administration would not tread on medical-marijuana   ... MORE

Jonah Goldberg: Very Few Of The Above

Obama's energy policy is rather picky.    In his speech before the Newspapers Association of America/American Society of News Editors Wednesday, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney accused the president of changing positions to get reelected.  For instance, Romney charged that “as president,” Obama “delayed the development of our ... MORE

VIDEO: Top Cop Chooses Not To See Voter Fraud


Even after stranger given Attorney General Eric Holder's ballot.

John Fund: Why We Need Voter-ID Laws Now

The attorney general can't look away anymore. Attorney General Eric Holder is a staunch opponent of laws requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls to improve ballot security. He calls them “unnecessary” and has blocked their implementation in Texas and South Carolina, citing the fear they would discriminate against minorities. I wonder what    ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: Hope For The Dead

Human aspiration needs freedom to flourish. What does freedom have to do with rising from the dead? When America was in its infancy and struggling to find a culture and frustrated with governance from Great Britain, the word most frequently uttered in speeches and pamphlets and letters was not safety, taxes or peace; it was freedom. Two acts of ... MORE

Wendell Cox: California Declares War On Suburbia

State's climate-change goals provide the impetus. It's no secret that California's regulatory and tax climate is driving business investment to other states. California's high cost of living also is driving people away. Since 2000 more than 1.6 million people have fled, and my own research as well as that of others points to high housing prices as the principal factor. ... MORE
 

Daniel Mandel: What Is Judicial Activism?

Striking down an unconstitutional law is doing its duty. Last week, President Barack Obama warned the Supreme Court against the perils of judicial activism. Specifically, he warned against the Court ruling unconstitutional Obamacare. "Ultimately," said the President, "I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an     ... MORE

VIDEO: Williams & Sowell - Minimum Wage, Maximum Folly

Sheldon Richman: Is Serfdom An Executive Order Away?

The unchecked powers of the executive.  Sometimes a step back helps to provide perspective on a matter. President Obama provided such a step with his March 16 Executive Order—National Defense Resources Preparedness. In it we see in detail how completely the government may control our lives—euphemistically called the “industrial and    ... MORE

Ben Stein: Our Presidential Know Nothing

Besides the Constitution, what else doesn't he know? Here, in outline form, is why the pronouncements from President Barack Obama, warning the Supreme Court to not overturn Obamacare. are so chilling: 1. The President supposedly went to Harvard Law School, graduated from same, was Law Review President of the Harvard Law Review at  ... MORE

VIDEO: Does Government Spending Create Growth?