Earlier today, when House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) allowed IRS scoundrel Lois
Lerner to stop testifying after she “took the Fifth,” I said that
Issa had made a mistake.
He should have made her stay...
I first found out about today’s terrorist attack in London via
Ross’ post.
My first thought is that this isn’t the first act of Islamic
terrorism in Britain and it won’t be the last.
It has been widely reported that the man...
For the University of Mobile’s Center for Leadership, I put the
current media-chilling narrative in
broader perspective.
But now it’s not just freedom of the press that
seems threatened by a government that some people fe...
Members of both parties expressed a strong interest in
protecting constitutional rights while prosecuting the war on
terror at a House
Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday.
The sparsely attended event touched on fundamental issues of
liberty and security...
A key development today in the evolving story of America’s
overseas targeted killing program. The White House has officially
acknowledged the killing of four of its own citizens with unmanned
aerial systems, popularly known as drones. The New Y...
With the hornets nest of conservative and libertarian anger
which Colorado Governor John “I’m a moderate” Hickenlooper stirred
up by supporting a raft of anti-gun legislation in this once-red
state, I thought there was little chance he w...
There’s a fine line between brave and stupid, and I’m always
grateful when the hilarious Steven Crowder gets close to crossing
it. (Whether he’s actually crossed it or not is probably up to the
viewer, though I imagine certain folks R...
One of the fundamental and most memorable lessons in economics,
regarding specialization and cooperation, is captured in Leonard
Read’s 1958 essay,
I, Pencil.
Milton Friedman also popularized the idea and the Competitve
Enterprise Institute made a...
Iranian soldiers are fighting alongside troops supporting Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah troops, according to a
State Department official.
The Washington Post is reporting:
An unknown number of Iranians are fighting inside Syria, the
off...
