Amy Payne: Ready For Another Increase In The Debt Limit?

Obama's debt ceiling raises have cost families $43,000.    Did you know that since President Obama came into office, the debt limit has been raised seven times? With those increases, Congress has added $43,000 in debt for every American household in just the last four years. And now the debt limit deadline is looming again. Treasury will    ... MORE

John Stossel: Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Technology

Technology keeps making the world better.     Invent something and the first thing that goes through some people's minds -- especially politicians' minds -- is what might go wrong. 3D printers now allow you to mold objects right in your living room, using patterns you find online. It's a revolutionary invention that will save time, reduce shipping     ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - Preferences And Prejudice

Ill-Informed Voters Pay Dividends To Democratic Party

by Larry Elder.              Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is worried. In a recent speech at Boise State, O'Connor said: "Less than one-third of eighth-graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence, and it's right there in the name. ... The more I read and the more I listen, the more apparent       ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: Is The FISA Court Constitutional?

A court where only one party can make an argument.     After President Richard Nixon left office in 1974, a bipartisan congressional investigation discovered many of his constitutional excesses. Foremost among them was the use of FBI and CIA agents to spy on Americans in violation of federal law and the Fourth Amendment to the       ... MORE

VIDEO: 3 Reasons Kids Should Watch South Park

Victor Davis Hanson: The Late, Great Middle Class

Don't try to sell the recovery notion to them.     The American middle class, like the American economy in general, is ailing. Labor-force participation has hit a 35-year low. Median household income is lower than it was five years ago. Only the top 5 percent of households have seen their incomes rise under President Obama. Commuters are paying      ... MORE

Time To Speak Up Against The NSA's Mass Spying

by Rainey Reitman.       This summer, some of our worst fears and suspicions about the NSA have been confirmed. We now have evidence that the NSA is actively undermining the basic security of the Internet. It is collecting millions and millions of phone records of individuals not suspected of any crime. It is surveilling journalists. The NSA’s  ... MORE

The Land Of The Free Is Now A Nation Of Sheep

by Bill Frezza.        No, this is not another diatribe about the futility of many gun control laws and the geographic correlation between the level of gun crime and the hurdles law-abiding citizens have to surmount to provide for their own defense. Nor is it a rant about the media exploitation of tragedies like the recent Navy Yard shooting.    ... MORE

Cops Kill 95-Year-Old For Refusing To Go To Hospital

by Jonathan Turley.        There is a disturbing report out of Chicago where police were called when 95-year-old world War II veteran John Wrana refused to go to a hospital for a urinary tract infection. Called by paramedics to assist in getting Wrana into an ambulance, the Park Forest police showed up in riot gear and proceeded to shoot Wrana   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Middle East Misperceptions

Jacob Sullum: Ignorance Is Ratification

Allowing mass collection of Americans' phone records.    In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent discovers that the plans for a highway project involving demolition of his house have been "on display" in the basement of a government building at "the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on     ... MORE

John Stossel - Innovation And Stagnation

Government vs the free market.     Invent something and the first thing that goes through some people's minds — especially politicians' minds — is what might go wrong. 3D printers now allow you to mold objects right in your living room, using patterns you find online. It's a revolutionary invention that will save time, reduce shipping    ... MORE

VIDEO: 5 Reasons ObamaCare Won't Save You

L. Brent Bozell: Only Propaganda Is 'Good Journalism'?

Why the waterfall of liberal bias keeps flowing.     Why are liberals in so much denial about liberal bias in the news? Why do they think they're bending over backward to be "objective" doing that which Republicans see as partisan activism? Daniel Froomkin of the Huffington Post — formerly of The Washington Post — suggests an answer.  ... MORE

Gene Healy: Be Afraid Of NSA Spying

We've only seen the tip of the iceberg on NSA abuse.    “Dear NSA/CSS family,” begins a Sept. 13, 2013, letter to employees and “extended family” of the nation’s largest spy agency from NSA director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the boss of the family (CSS stands for Central Security Service, an NSA subagency). In the missive, published   ... MORE

Senator Calls To Scrap Key Patriot Act Snooping Provision

by Stephen Dinan.      The Senate’s senior lawmaker said Tuesday that its time to end the Patriot Act power that the intelligence community has relied on to collect all Americans’ phone records, saying it isn’t making the country safer. “In my view, and I’ve discussed this with the White House, the Section 215 collection of Americans’ phone records  ... MORE

Rick Moran: One Family's ObamaCare Nightmare

Premiums jump from $333 to $965 a month.           There has been conflicting information from supporters and opponents of Obamacare over the last few months about just what is going to happen to premiums under the law. Generally speaking - very generally - most employer based policies will either stay the same or increase     ... MORE

VIDEO: ObamaCare May Be Hazardous To Your Health

Paul Roderick Gregory: The Problem Is Obesity, Not Hunger

Thoughts on the food stamps debate.       Throughout history, politicians have fabricated crises to justify their own solution to the crisis they themselves dreamed up. History is strewn with non-existent crises – the population bomb, global cooling, resource depletion,  freon destroying the ozone layer, and so on  – that threaten        ... MORE