Second Amendment Rights The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear …
Want a Shortage of Something? Put the Government in Charge of Its Production
The late, inordinately great man and economist Milton Friedman once rightly observed “If you put the federal government in charge of the …
Dana Perino: How My Husband Ended Up in Jail After Walking Our Dog
COMMENTARY BY Dana Perino@DanaPerino Dana Perino served for seven years in the administration of President George W. Bush and became …
Internet of Things means Chinese electronics are threat to National Security
Internet outage caused by cheap, unsecured Chinese crap that was weaponized On Friday, Oct. 21, a massive attack against Dyn, …
Yes, North Korea CAN attack US, and here’s how they’ll do it
With U.S. naval forces engaging in joint training exercises with South Korea off the Korean peninsula, North Korea has stepped …
Get ’em while they’re legal: gun sales double ahead of Election Day
Fear of a Hillary Clinton presidency has pushed gun sales into “uncharted territory” ahead of Election Day, forcing gun stores around …
#5 – Topher asks why private property is controlled by the state. (And whizzes up his phone)
Topher brings you Protecting My Private… Property, video #5 from the Lifestyle Regulation Madness series, where he asks why private …
“Ethanol is the wrong solution” – What do you think?
By Marita Noon University of Michigan’s Energy Institute research professor John DeCicco, Ph.D., believes that rising carbon dioxide emissions are …
The Government is Eviscerating Private Property Rights. Again
The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution reads, in part, as follows: “No person shall…be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without …
Voting? Seven other things for which the government requires ID
As federal courts wrestle with voter ID laws in several states just months before a national election, there is considerably …
Lockout The Fun! – Lifestyle Regulation Madness from Topher Field Down Under
Our favorite Ozzie, Topher Field is back with videos #3 and #4 in his rail against the system. In video #3 he …
How to Talk About Gun Rights With Gun Control Advocates
Guns are a tricky topic. Very rarely do you find voters ambivalent about gun violence, gun safety, etc. Someone is …
Love Liberty? Curious about the State of the Nation? Cato just wrecked your plans for the day
The Cato Institute is a libertarian-leaning think tank that has just performed a Herculean public service by putting together this …
Is it really easier to get a “Gun Than a Book”?
President Barack Obama said it is easier in some neighborhoods to get a gun than a book. Is that true? …
A Cartoon that Tells You Everything You Need to Know about International Bureaucracies
by Dan Mitchell. Okay, I’ll admit the title of this post is an exaggeration. There are lots of things you should …
Knife Rights: The Unseen Side of the Second Amendment and the Right to Bear Arms
While congressional Democrats and Republicans go head-to-head over gun control, proponents of a smaller, often overlooked facet of the Second …
CIA’s OPSEC Guidelines For Pokémon Go
US Government operational security guidance for intelligence officers and friends playing Pokémon GO UNCLASSIFIED pic.twitter.com/yAASF3XR46 — Thomas Rid (@RidT) July …
Crazy rules “Down Under” – Can you match them?
One ‘Fine’ Day is video #1 of the ‘Lifestyle Regulation Madness’ series from our Australian social commentator, Topher Field. …
Hahaha! Anti-gun reporter trashed by gun owners. Watch this recoil experiment!
Last week, New York Daily News reporter Gersh Kuntzman fired an AR-15 at a shooting range and claimed that it caused, among other things, …
Another Shooting Tragedy in a Gun-Free Zone
by Dan Mitchell It’s happened again. A nut went to a gun-free zone and engaged in a mass killing. In this example, the …
Why economic liberty floats all boats and why the opposite is true!
The Fight against Socialism and other Forms of Statism by Dan Mitchell Socialism is a very bad concept. It deserves mockery rather than respect. But …
Kids get ticket for lemonade stand. Are regs ruining America?
Ticketing Children for Selling Lemonade Highlights Overcriminalization Problem Some Louisianan children recently opened a lemonade stand and were ticketed for operating a …
Duh! The private sector does a better job than the TSA
The TSA Edition of the Private Sector Does a Better Job by Dan Mitchell The Transportation Security Administration has become infamous over …
We Don’t Need a National Zoning Board
The Obama economy has been tough on America’s working families. Just recently Pew Research Center reported that in the last 15 years “the …
Was Reaganomics a Success?
We learn from history, right? But sometimes that’s mythologized, or warped. So here’s Dan Mitchell‘s analysis. Among Republicans and conservatives, …
E-cigarettes helped me quit smoking, saved my life
By Robert Romano E-cigarettes are a relatively inexpensive smoke cessation product — and they probably saved my life. Thanks to …
Other people’s money and why the government is hopeless about spending
Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, and Other People’s Money by Dan Mitchell From an economic perspective, too much government spending is harmful to economic …
More Guns Does Not Mean More Murders
The Squirrel says: Amazingly, this research came out of Harvard. According to proponents of gun control, more guns in …
Florida fights back against civil asset forfeiture
Civil asset forfeiture is as regular readers know, a policy that law enforcement often abuses to seize a person’s property, such …