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Thomas Sowell: The Inequality Bogeyman

Stop calling envy "social justice". During a recent lunch in a restaurant, someone complimented my wife on the perfume she was wearing. But I was wholly unaware that she was wearing perfume, even though we had been in a car together for about half an hour, driving to the restaurant. My sense of smell is very poor. But there is ... MORE

VIDEO: School Choice - A Multiple Choice Test For Families

96% Of Dems Who Support Minimum Wage Don't Pay Interns

by Matt Vespa. Liberals are really pushing raising the minimum wage for 2014. Thirty states have put forward bills to increase it, and Democrats have made this issue part of their political strategy for this year. Yet, a new study from the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) has exposed the proponents of raising the minimum wage of their "hypocrisy." ... MORE

Christopher Elliott: TSA Gives Fliers A Bad Feeling

Are they starting to sense the government is not us? If airport security is so good, why do passengers feel so bad? That's a valid question, considering how the Transportation Security Administration seems to be spinning its performance lately. The agency wants you to believe the dark days of body scans and pat-downs, of liquids, ... MORE

The EPA's Agenda: Undermine Capitalism & America

by Alan Caruba. The Environmental Protection Agency has been in a full assault on the U.S. economy since the 1980s when the global warming hoax was initiated. It has been assisted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. To put it in other terms, our own government has engaged in lying to Americans, and the result ... MORE

Nick Gillespie: Will Rand Paul Mainstream Libertarianism?

On his way to the White House. The Sunday morning talk shows are abuzz with disussion about a long and interesting article about Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in The New York Times written by Sam Tanenhaus and Jim Rutenberg. I'm not particularly familiar with Rutenberg's work, but Tanenhaus is a really sharp historian of ideology in American ... MORE

VIDEO: Nick Gillespie - Spending And Debt

Ohio Police Department Deploys Fake Drug Checkpoints

Government finds creative new uses for lying. Police in the Cleveland suburb of Mayfield Heights know they’re not allowed to use checkpoints to search drivers and their cars for drugs. So they’re trying the next best thing: fake drug checkpoints. Police in the city of 19,000 recently posted large yellow signs along Interstate 271 that ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Politics Of Hate And Envy

Part of the progressive agenda is to create hate and envy. One component of that agenda is to attack the large differences between a corporation's chief executive officer's earnings and those of its average worker. CNNMoney published salary comparisons in "Fortune 50 CEO pay vs. our salaries". Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf's annual salary ... MORE

VIDEO: Free Americans Exercising Their Rights

How Americans Can Kill ObamaCare: Legalize Pot

by Glenn Harlan Reynolds. In his excellent book, Two Cheers For Anarchism, Professor James Scott writes: One need not have an actual conspiracy to achieve the practical effects of a conspiracy. More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called 'Irish Democracy,' the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal, ... MORE

The Mythical Invasion Of The Super Bowl Hookers

by Maggie McNeil. Major events such as World’s Fairs and the Olympics always provide an excuse for governments to “clean things up” in the host cities before the guests arrive. Police sweep people the leaders consider undesirable, embarrassing or just plain unsightly out of public view (and into jails or exile for the duration). The victims ... MORE

Secret Government Is The Chief Threat To Liberty

by Ronald Bailey. Last Friday, President Obama made a much anticipated speech at the Department of Justice outlining his proposed reforms of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program, with a particular focus on the NSA’s clandestine collection of the records of essentially every American’s telephone calls. Yesterday, ... MORE

6 Shocking Studies That Prove Science Is Totally Broken

by Andrew Marinus, Alan Boyle and Jon Pearl. Even if you're not all that into science, it's still a big part of the news that reaches you on a day-to-day basis -- you'll see interesting headlines about how studies show marijuana cures loneliness or how other studies say pot ruins your memory, and you kind of just assume they're true. If scientists ... MORE