The Democratic attempt to enact additional or more draconian gun-control legislation is dead. Liberals in and out of Congress — many of whom would prefer that only members of the military, the Department of Homeland Security, and the police ...
Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy
by Robert Sirico (Regnery Publishing, 2012), 213 pages.
Critics of the free market assert that it fails the underprivileged, leads to income inequality, exploits the poor, and is at ...
The number of Americans receiving food stamps is at an all-time high — and still climbing. One in seven Americans is now on food stamps.
Although the food-stamp program has been officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...
Medicare is government-funded health care for Americans aged 65 and over and/or those who are permanently disabled. Like Social Security, it is funded by payroll tax deductions from both employers and employees, but only partially. Unlike Social Security, which ...
Last month, the parliament in Turkey passed legislation ostensibly designed to curb alcohol consumption among Turkish youth.
Retailers may not sell alcohol between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. No alcohol may be sold within 100 meters of educational or religious ...
The ongoing scandal concerning the IRS’s targeting conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status shows just how close conservatives are to liberals and how far they are from libertarians.
It has come to light that the IRS singled out conservative ...
All eyes are on the Supreme Court as it gets ready to issue its decisions in the cases of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the challenge to California’s Proposition 8, and United States v. Windsor, the challenge to the federal Defense ...
Although gay sex and raw milk have nothing to do with each other, they have everything to do with individual liberty, private property, and a free society.
The governor or Montana recently signed into law a bill to strike unconstitutional ...
At first glance, the idea of dress codes seems foreign to a free society. Actually, however, the case is just the opposite.
That truth was manifest most recently at, of all places, a press conference held at the Capitol Hill ...
No, They Can’t: Why Government Fails — But Individuals Succeed by John Stossel (New York: Threshold Editions, 2012), 324 pages.
John Stossel is the well-known host of Stossel on Fox Business. A graduate of Princeton, he has won an ...