Barack Obama is making the same disastrous mistake that George Bush did, and I am amazed that neither he nor his advisers are aware of it. Many people have commented that Obama has effectively given Pelosi and Reid free rein to insert as much prok as they wish into their spending bills while pontificating in [...]

The desire of the NEA to kill the DC Voucher program is well-covered, including by my co-contributor Doug here. Now it seems that Congress has snuck in a provision for the Teamsters, to restrict Mexican truckers: Buried in the $410 billion catch-all appropriations bill now before the U.S. Senate is a provision that would end [...]

In 2009 America, do we get back on top through hard work and preparation, or do we take the Barry Bonds “stimulus package” approach? The Uncler w/ Uncle Sam and Alyssa Milano from Alyssa Milano Hat Tip: The Big Picture

From CNN: “It’s time for this waste and inefficiency to end. It’s time for a government that only invests in what works,” Obama said. The president said the country must “turn the tide on an era of fiscal irresponsibility so that we can sustain our recovery, enhance accountability and avoid leaving our children a mountain [...]

That Mitt Romney came in first in the CPAC presidential straw poll isn’t all that surprising.  That Ron Paul tied with Sarah Palin for third place certainly is. Now, The American Conservative is asking whether South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford will run for president.  In a rather flattering-to-Sanford profile, Michael Brendan Dougherty outlines why the [...]

Many people have worried about the threat that China and India post to America by moving towards first-world economic powers. After all, they have, between the two of them, somewhere in the realm of 2.5B people, and if the same proportion of their students become engineers and scientists as we see here, they will be [...]

If book sales of “Atlas Shrugged” are any indicator, the Obama administration may have just given the freedom movement a much needed shot in the arm. From the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights: Sales of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” have almost tripled over the first seven weeks of this year compared with sales for [...]

I’ve always enjoyed Jon Stewart. While I don’t agree with him politically, and occasionally some of his more sophomoric bits don’t quite resonate with me, I find his show one of the few enjoyable “news-ish” shows on TV. In fact, after Dick Cheney shot a friend in the face, on of my first thoughts was [...]

The Bush Administration weighed restrictions on the First Amendment, according to a recently released memo: In perhaps the most surprising assertion, the Oct. 23, 2001, memo suggested the president could even suspend press freedoms if he concluded it was necessary to wage the war on terror. “First Amendment speech and press rights may also be [...]

There’s really only one reason why the still-ongoing talk of a libertarian alliance with liberal Democrats is pretty much nonsense: You don’t need a political synthesis, if you think you are holding all the cards. This is where Brink, Will, and other Liberaltarians are kidding themselves. Today there are few in the Democratic Party or [...]

Obama’s trying to raise taxes on those making over $250,000 a year, and the people in that group [well, enough for an anecdotal news story, anyway] say they won’t stand for it: President Barack Obama’s tax proposal – which promises to increase taxes for those families with incomes of $250,000 or more — has some [...]

Thank you, President Obama, for keeping your campaign pledge to end raids on medical marijuana dispensaries that are legal under state laws in California and elsewhere. Thank you for reversing an inhumane policy established by the Clinton administration and continued by the Bush administration. Given the experience you and other elected officials have had with [...]

A couple of weeks ago, Indianapolis City-County Councilman Ed Coleman jumped from the Republican Party to the Libertarian Party.  From the Chicago Tribune: Councilman Ed Coleman says he has become disillusioned by what he called the abuse of power by GOP leaders. Coleman was elected in 2007 to his first term as an at-large council member. He’ll be [...]

Sophie Scholl was a member of the Nazi youth resistance movement called the White Rose in the early 1940s. She was caught distributing anti-war leaflets, tried, and executed. But it seems that she considers her fight more important than her eventual fate: “The real damage is done by those millions who want to ’survive.’ The [...]

The Obama Administration is adopting some of the same legal theories that President Bush used to enhance the powers of the Presidency: A federal appeals court rejected the Obama administration’s attempt Friday to stop a judge in San Francisco from reviewing a challenge to the wiretapping program ordered by former President George W. Bush. Hours [...]

Here’s yet another great reason not to require firearms owners to register their weapons: A Memphis newspaper has posted a searchable database of Tennesseans with permits to carry concealed handguns, upsetting firearm owners and igniting a debate on whether such information should be publicly available. Gun owners say the database is an invasion of privacy [...]

Brad Delong wonders why we are against government “stimulus”, when “spending” produces good outcomes: I simply do not understand their arguments that government spending cannot boost the economy. As far as I can tell, they are simply burying their heads in the sand. At the start of 1996, the US unemployment rate was 5.6%. Then [...]

For those of you who believe that Libertarians focus too much on the War on (Some) Drugs, perhaps it’s time to pay attention to the escalating violence in Mexico which is spilling over into the U.S. PHOENIX (Reuters) – Hit men dressed in fake police tactical gear burst into a home in Phoenix, rake it [...]

The Washington Post takes the Democrats to task for playing political games with the District of Columbia’s school voucher program: REP. DAVID R. Obey (Wis.) and other congressional Democrats should spare us their phony concern about the children participating in the District’s school voucher program. If they cared for the future of these students, they [...]

David Frum thinks that Republicans, especially activist conservative Republicans, are in the throes of a very powerful myth: The myth is the myth of the Goldwater triumph of 1964. It goes approximately as follows: In 1964, after years of watered down politics, Republicans turned to a true conservative, Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. Yes, Goldwater lost [...]