One more step by the Therapeutic State toward gun confiscation was taken by California Governor Jerry Brown this week, hiring more "special agents" to search for and confiscate weapons from innocents now deemed to be mentally ill. 

Liberal Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor has had a rough month. Polls show his credibility dropping, conservative opponents are beginning to stir, and now he has alienated Mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

The Koch Brothers' meeting in Palm Springs could presage the beginning of the change back to sensible policies and limited government that so many are hoping for.

Rep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.) is right: The only way to fix the "Obama phone" subsidy is to end it altogether. Then the other problems associated with the subsidy — corruption, crony capitalism, waste, and so on — become irrelevant.

The old food stamp program now called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is growing so quickly and costing so much that nibbling around the edges of it with bills such as those presented by Senator John Thune and Congressman Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.) will have negligible effect.

The Homeland Security Department's lack of forthrightness in explaining its supposed need for hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition was exposed at a hearing Thursday in Washington.

Calls to privatize government agencies like the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are likely to fall on deaf ears until the government runs out of money.

A closer look at a surprising poll showing a majority of small-business owners favoring raising the minimum wage reveals an organization with an agenda. 

A close look at the delays and disruptions the FAA says are being forced on it by sequester cuts reveals an agency that is bloated and inefficient and only too willing to go along with the Obama administration's complaints about those cuts.