Future dims for survival of cheap, reliable illumination. The free market operates by offering incentives to consumers to change their behavior. Cutting prices, advertising and developing new products redirect the public’s impulses in a natural, painless way. The government, on the other hand, has no passion or patience for this sort of thing. ... MORE
Ron Paul: "We Have Passed The Point Of No Return"
Skip to 5:45 of the video. In a little under three minutes, Ron Paul explains to a somewhat nonplussed CNBC anchor just how ridiculous the charade that is occurring in D.C. actually is. This succinct spin-free clip should be required viewing for each and every asset-manager, talking-head, propagandist, and mom-and-pop who are viewing the last-minute ... MORE
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Critics Slam Feinstein's "Assault Weapons" Ban & Registry
by Alex Newman. Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California has stirred up a hornets' nest with her latest proposal to ban so-called “assault weapons”
and standard capacity magazines while creating a federal registry of
gun owners, complete with pictures and fingerprints. Analysts say
supporting the measure would be “political suicide” for ... MORE
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Obama Orders Pay Raises For Congress And Fed Employees
Daniel Halper on Obama's latest executive order. President Barack Obama issued an executive order to end the pay
freeze on federal employees, in effect giving some federal workers a
raise. One federal worker now to receive a pay increase is Vice
President Joe Biden. According to disclosure forms, Biden made a cool $225,521 last year. ... MORE
VIDEO: The Truth Behind the 2013 NDAA- Part 1
The Feinstein/Lee Amendment
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Bad Forecast For California Taxpayers & Wealth Producers
by Steven Greenhut. California’s Democratic leaders are giddy about the future now that they have gained everything they wanted in the last election—voter-approved tax increases and a two-thirds supermajority in both houses of the Legislature, thus rendering Republicans little more than an annoying irrelevancy that can no longer block tax hikes. ... MORE
Assault Rifles, Ammo Flying Off Shelves After Newtown
Citizens race to beat the ban. Gun enthusiasts have been stocking up in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., elementary school massacre
– flocking to gun shows to get their hands on parts and weapons out of
fear that lawmakers will take a harder stance on gun control in the
coming year. The phones at gun shops across the country have been ringing off ... MORE
Heritage Foundation: The 10 Worst Regulations Of 2012
by Diane Katz and James Gattuso. During 2012, virtually every aspect of American life was subjected to
government meddling, ranging from how many calories you consume to how
efficient your dishwasher is. These rules affect us in a
variety of ways. Most increase the cost of living, others hinder job
creation, and many erode our freedom. ... MORE
Will Congress Stop Warrantless E-Mail Snooping?
by John Stanton. Senate backers of new protections against warrantless monitoring of private citizens’ emails said Wednesday that Congress has a good shot of passing digital privacy legislation next year — despite complaints that a bill passed last week didn't include the provisions. Although the Senate Judiciary Committee on Nov. 29 passed a package of video ... MORE
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ViDEO: The Free Market Is Not Allowed To Work
A talk by Dr. Walter E Williams.
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Sometimes A School Needs An Intervention
by A. Barton Hinkle. For many years, the public schools in Petersburg, Va., turned in
dismal academic performances. State officials did what they could
to galvanize improvement. In 2006, the district and the state
signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at boosting results. A
similar previous agreement had failed to move ... MORE
Emily Goff: 5 New Year's Resolutions For Congress In 2013
Resolving to do what's right. While many Americans resolve to make 2013 the year they really do
slim down, exercise more, and spend less, Congress could afford to
commit to a few such resolutions of its own. Call them budget resolutions—something Congress hasn’t had in a while. Here are five suggestions: 1. Cut spending. The federal government is ... MORE
Obama's Cap-And-Trade Scheme For Cars
by Rachael Slobodien. Ever since the Senate rejected President Obama’s cap-and-trade scheme in 2009, his administration has been hard at work to find other ways to implement a radical, environmentalist agenda. Obama made these intentions clear at a press conference in 2010 when he explained, “Cap and trade was just one way of skinning ... MORE
DC Traffic Cameras To Double Amid Record Revenues
Politicians exploit another cash cow. Traffic camera fines are poised to dip in the District, but one aspect of the controversial program is set to surge in 2013: the number of the devices that generate tickets for common traffic offenses like speeding and running stoplights. Over the course of 2013, the District government will add 134 traffic ... MORE
Tax Hikes & Fees Coming With ObamaCare Next Year
by Billy Hallowell. Starting in 2014, President Barack Obama’s health care law will expand coverage to some 30 million uninsured people. At the same time, insurers no longer will be allowed to turn away those in poor health, and virtually every American will be required to have health insurance — or pay a fine. Insurance will be available through ... MORE
John Stossel: Charity Begins With Wealth Creation
Wealth must be created before it is given. Charity -- helping people who have trouble helping themselves -- is a good thing two times over. It's good for the beneficiary and good for the donor, too. Stephen Post's fine book, "The Hidden Gifts of Helping," reveals that 76 percent of Americans say that helping others is what makes them most happy. Giving money ... MORE
Dave Gahary: Government Crosses New Privacy Line
Feds collect data on those not suspected of crimes. Documents obtained under Freedom of Information Act requests and interviews conducted with officials at numerous government agencies by The Wall Street Journal
uncovered the behind-closed-doors creation this year of “a government
dragnet, sweeping up millions of records about U.S. ... MORE
Naked Passenger Images Provide Laughs For TSA Officers
by Paul Joseph Watson. A former TSA screener turned blogger who is now causing embarrassment for the federal agency has revealed that TSA officers routinely laugh at and make fun of passengers’ nude body scanner images in back rooms. In a blog entitled Taking Sense Away,
the anonymous ex-TSA worker reveals how he, “Witnessed light ... MORE
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VIDEO: The Role of Profit
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The Three Not So 'Wise Men Of Washington, D.C.
These politicians are cooking the books. Washington politicians are scaremongering that if no deal is reached between President Obama and congressional Republicans, taxes will go up on all of us January 1, when Bush tax rates expire. Nonsense. Most people have their taxes withheld gradually during the year. The president has the ... MORE
Daren Jonescu: The Case Against Public Education
Salvaging a civilization. If public education is allowed to survive, all efforts to resuscitate the inert husk of modern civilization will fail. It is time to unravel the most wasteful and destructive entitlement program of all. Cancer cells do not divide into healthy cells. A corrupted, power-intoxicated political class will not willingly raise a freedom-loving, ... MORE
Half The Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
by Ronald Bailey. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded. Increased K-12 spending and lower pupil/teacher ratios boost public school student outcomes. Most of the DNA in the human genome is junk. Saccharin causes cancer and a high fiber diet prevents it. Stars cannot be bigger than 150 solar masses. In the past half-century, all of the foregoing facts ... MORE
Who Will Defend Capitalism If Not The Capitalists?
Cowardly CEOs throw capitalism over fiscal cliff. The fiscal cliff is exposing some brassy hypocrisy on Wall Street. Eager to score points with the White House, one CEO after another is throwing capitalism over the edge. Remarks by leading captains of industry over the past few weeks have sounded alarmingly anti-market. Some of these ... MORE
Nathan Lewis: 40 Years Of Floating Money
40 years of the average worker getting poorer. The reason we have floating currencies today is to enable economic management via currency manipulation. Central banks attempt to guide macroeconomic factors like unemployment, economic growth, interest rates, inflation and so forth by jiggering the currency. This idea is very old, ... MORE
People Are Buying Guns And Ammo For A Reason
by Neil Snyder. It's 2:00 a.m. You are at home in your bed sound asleep. Your wife is sleeping beside you, and your children are asleep in their rooms down the hall. The muffled sound of a window breaking interrupts your slumber. You're groggy and you wonder if it was just a dream, so you lie there quietly and listen. A few seconds later, you hear other ... MORE
VIDEO: Software Patents Last Too Long
Are copying and innovation implacable enemies.
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Dr. Randy Short: Obama Even More Fascistic Than Bush
U.S. being pushed toward a police state. President Barack Obama has been following the path of attacking civil liberties and pushing the U.S. towards totalitarianism, says Randy Short, a member of Dignity, Human Rights and Peace organization in Baltimore. “The cybersecurity bill that President Obama seems to want to pass without submitting ... MORE
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Walter E Williams: Middle East Democracy
We should mind our own business. Here's the first paragraph of my last year's column "Democracy Is Impossible": "After Moammar Gadhafi's downfall as Libya's tyrannical ruler, politicians and 'experts' in the U.S. and elsewhere, including French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, are saying that his death marked the end of 42 years of tyranny and the ... MORE
Brooks & Watkins: How The Welfare State Stole Christmas
The drive for guilt over happiness. “We Could End Homelessness With The Money Americans Spend On Christmas Decorations,” announces a headline from Think Progress blogger Adam Peck. So far as we can tell, Americans haven’t exactly been taking to the
streets demanding that people trade Christmas ornaments for welfare
programs, ... MORE
VIDEO: Santa Claus arrested by Capitol Police
Arrested for being nice. Passing out chalk to children will not be tolerated.
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Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Observations on life as it is. When I was growing up, an older member of the family used to say, "What you don't know would make a big book." Now that I am an older member of the family, I would say to anyone, "What you don't know would fill more books than the Encyclopedia Britannica." At least half of our society's troubles ... MORE
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Jeffrey T. Kuhner: Why The Left Hates Guns
Armed citizens a bulwark against state power. Liberals have declared war on gun rights. Following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School
in Newtown, Conn., gun-control zealots have seized on the murder of 20
children and 6 adults to push their longtime goal of rolling back the
Second Amendment. The bodies of the victims ... MORE
Speech Codes: Biggest Scandal On College Campuses Today
by Greg Lukianoff. Today’s conventional wisdom seems to be that university speech codes
banning “offensive” expression on campus are a distant relic of the
heyday of political correctness in the 1980s and 90s. But in truth,
speech codes—university policies prohibiting expression protected by the
First Amendment in society at large—are nearly ... MORE
Media Fabricates Test To Demonize Pot And Driving
by Michael Suede. Fox News Denver recently did a story on the effects of driving high on cannabis. In the process of doing the story, they had people drive a video game simulator to test the effects of impairment. However, Fox rigged the driving simulator to force crashes so they could bias the story against cannabis users. One of the test participants ... MORE
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law,
marijuana,
media bias,
medical marijuana,
pot,
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Obama Announces New Wave Of Proposed Regulations
by Dave Boyer. After taking criticism for missing an October deadline, the Obama administration Friday released its list of proposed government-wide regulations that it plans to consider in the next year. The administration put out its notice, called the unified regulatory agenda, online around 3 p.m. on the Friday before Christmas, after most ... MORE
Douglas French: Down And Out In California
Golden State is fast losing its luster. Gas in Vegas is a dollar cheaper a gallon than in the Golden State, or so a friend and recent LA transplant tells me. He went on to say the top tax rate in California is over 13%, while, of course, Nevada has no state income tax. Over dinner at Del Frisco’s, he explained how industries are being ruined by ... MORE
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mathematics,
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public employees,
spending,
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David Harsanyi: The Auto Bailout Failure Is Now Complete
Another big-time loser for taxpayers. You may recall that during the presidential election, the Treasury Department refused requests by General Motors to unload the government's stake in the giant automaker. Taxpayers had sunk $50 billion into a union bailout in 2009 and
were now proud owners of 26.5 percent of the struggling ... MORE
Steven Greenhut: California Lawmakers Target Gun Rights
An opportunity to tangle gun rights with red tape. It took only days before California’s lefty legislators reacted to the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy with a fusillade of bills designed to take California closer to Democratic leaders’ unstated but obvious goal: making it essentially illegal for citizens to own firearms in ... MORE
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Leonard Peikoff: Christmas Should Be More Commercial
Santa Claus is a thoroughly American invention. Christmas in America is an exuberant display of human ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of life. Yet all of these are castigated as “materialistic”; the real meaning of the holiday, we are told, is assorted Nativity tales and altruist injunctions (e.g., love thy neighbor) ... MORE
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capitalism,
children,
economics,
freedom,
morality,
production,
prosperity,
tradition
Joseph Shattan: Right Of Revolution?
Reflections on a senator and the 2nd Amendment. About 15 years ago, I served on the staff of a Senator who was an ardent opponent of gun control. Once I asked him why he was so adamantly opposed to any restrictions on gun sales, when even the police favored banning sales of certain kinds of assault weapons. The Senator dismissed these ... MORE
NRA Membership Has Increased Since Newtown Shootings
by Alexander Abad-Santos. You would think, after a 20-year-old with legal guns killed 20
first-graders in Newtown, Connecticut, that the National Rifle
Association wouldn't be doing too well — what with the initial outcry over its silence and the ensuing outcry over the gun lobby's brief statement late Tuesday. But you would be wrong. Fox News ... MORE
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Obama,
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schools,
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weapons
Obamas Cost America Far More Than Royals Cost Britain
Is it hate or envy toward the rich? US taxpayers spent a staggering $1.4 Billion (yes, with a B) on the Obamas according to author Robert Keith Gray in his new book Presidential Perks Gone Royal! Compare that to only $57.8 million the Brits shelled out for their royals and you have to ask what is going on with President Obama. Now word comes that he and ... MORE
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