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The Goal Is Freedom: Lysander Spooner on the National Debt

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew says if Congress doesn’t raise the debt ceiling — or, as I call it, the debt sky, because apparently the sky is the limit — the government won’t be able to pay all its bills...

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Noam Chomsky: ‘We are seeing a decline in American power’

Noam Chomsky is one of America’s most celebrated and controversial academics. In addition to dramatically transforming the fields of modern linguistics and philosophy, he has authored nearly one...

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Don’t Look For Grown-ups

Just before the shutdown ended and the debt ceiling lifted, the pundits were demanding that the “grown-ups in the room” finally put a stop to the childish goings-on in Washington. That would be nice —...

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33 Stats That Prove That Something Desperately Needs To Be Done About The...

The U.S. national debt is 36 times larger than it was just 40 years ago. That is not a misprint. That is actually the truth. We are literally destroying the future of America, but most Americans don’t...

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Another Big Green power player moves up in Obama’s Washington

President Obama recently nominated Rhea Sun Suh to be the Department of the Interior’s assistant secretary for fish and wildlife and parks, a move that has brought shudders to ranchers, miners, timber...

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Penn Jillette on “Director’s Cut,” NSA, two parties, the Pope

Penn Jillette — illusionist, bestselling author, outspoken libertarian and atheist — has a new project on his hands, and some new roles: screenwriter, director, and movie star. His revolutionary new...

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Census Bureau allegedly manipulated employment numbers before 2012 election

An article appearing in the New York Post this week accuses the Census Bureau of manipulating the employment numbers in the months leading up to the 2012 election in order to help Pres. Obama win....

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Oregon Farmer Sues Over State’s Raw Milk Advertisement Ban

An Oregon farmer filed suit against the Oregon Department of Agriculture Tuesday, in hopes to remove state law that bans the advertisement of raw milk to the public. According to the lawsuit’s...

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There Already Is A Government Health Care System In America And It Is The...

What would happen if the entire health care system in the United States was run by the federal government?  Would such a system be better or worse than what we have today?  To get an answer to these...

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Government Is The Problem

Last spring Barack Obama told the graduating class of Ohio State University, Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate,...

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TGIF: Will 2016 be a Good Year for the Corporate State?

If you share my belief that the major obstacle to the free society is the national-security/corporate state, 2016 is shaping up to be a year of apprehension. The Wall Streeters, who are among the...

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Government of the Rich, by the Rich and for the Rich: It’s Time for ‘Militant...

We now live in a two-tiered system of governance. There are two sets of laws: one set for the government and its corporate allies, and another set for you and me. The laws which apply to the majority...

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Weaponized Government

Instapundit correctly notes that the current IRS scandal has tremendous implications for the NSA and other misbehaving government agencies: At a tax symposium at Pepperdine Law School last week, former...

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A Strong Breed of Men

As most Americans are now painfully aware, our Constitution was not a perfect document, for there were certain powers granted to the government that should never have been granted. But if interpreted...

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Government infiltrating websites to ‘deny, disrupt, degrade, deceive’

According to some of the newest Edward Snowden leaks as reported on by Glenn Greenwald on Monday, government spies are infiltrating websites in an effort to persuade public opinion and discredit...

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29-Year-Old Welfare Parasite Would Not Accept An $80,000 A Year Job Driving A...

What should be done with a 29-year-old welfare parasite that believes that in addition to practicing with his rock band, his main job in life is to “make sure the sun’s up and the girls are out”?  Most...

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A List Of 97 Taxes Americans Pay Every Year

If you are like most Americans, paying taxes is one of your pet peeves. The deadline to file your federal taxes is coming up, and this year Americans will spend more than 7 billion hours preparing...

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