The First Amendment marks out three areas in which the federal
government is limited: no “prohibiting the free exercise” of
religion, no “abridging the freedom of speech or of press,” no
impeding the “right of the people peaceably to assemble, a...
Writing a column on the recent IRS abuses is a hazardous
undertaking. The scandal is expanding so quickly that it’s hard to
get a paragraph on paper without having to revise it with new,
shocking details. As I write this, an unctuous-looking former IRS...
The IRS scandal provides Republicans and conservatives with the
opportunity to repeal and replace Obamacare now. The House
Republican majority should refuse to fund the expansion of the IRS
necessary to manage Obamacare. Without that funding, and hiring
t...
Few Americans dread anything more than receiving a letter from
the IRS. But imagine a full field audit, with intrusive questions
about your activities and spending habits. From suspicious agents
convinced that you’ve violated the law. That’s essential...
The United States Senate will likely soon consider ratification
the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD), which fell six votes short of the 67 needed
last December. The CPRD’s stated purpose is “to promote, prote...
Kermit Gosnell is not an outlier and his “house of horrors” is
not an isolated case. The abortion industry’s problems run much
deeper than that.
There is no need to dwell on the grotesque murders of the many
living babies by Philadelphia abortionist...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — E.W. Jackson played every card in
the deck to win Virginia’s Republican lieutenant governor
nomination Saturday night in Richmond — a rousing
speech, a dedicated base, and charismatic appeal to undecided
conservative...
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...
UPDATE: This
video purports to be one of the perpetrators:
This horrendous story still developing.
BBC story here
CNN story
here
I can only imagine Theo Van Gogh (no longer with us), Ayaan
Hirsi Ali, and Geert Wilders saying “Well, what did you ex...