Rand Paul “Interested” in 2016 Run for the White House
In an interview with ABC News ranging from marijuana laws to defense cuts, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) talked to Jonathan Karl about the...
DHS Inks $443 Million Deal to Buy More Drones
Department of Homeland Security seeks funds to purchase 14 new Predator drones. ...
Read moreSen. Leahy Drops Controversial Warrantless E-mail Surveillance Bill
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has announced that he will not be supporting the controversial Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act, which he wrote,...
Read moreRon Paul: Free People Have the Right to Secede
Are states free to secede from the union? While for many years this question was thought to be settled by the victory of...
Read moreHotels and Hassles
Few things can make you appreciate home like staying in a hotel. This includes not only low-budget, bare bones hotels but also sweepingly...
Read morePetraeus Fell for the Wrong Reason
David Petraeus has fallen — but not as he should have. Before being disgraced by an extramarital affair, the retired four-star general and...
Read moreMovie Review: The Pencil Has Spoken!
In the new and beautifully animated six-minute film I, Pencil, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has brought to life Leonard Read’s I, Pencil,...
Read moreUnion Threatens to Paralyze Walmart Stores on Black Friday
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union has threatened 1,000 protests against Walmart on Black Friday, while the giant retailer has filed...
Read moreEU Supports New Syrian Opposition Group
At the meeting of the European Union's Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on November 19, a group of 27 European foreign ministers issued...
Read moreVictory — and Defeat — in Battle Over Contraception Mandate
A pair of rulings covering Obama's contraception mandate demonstrates the conflict that is emerging between religious freedom and the President's audacious attempts at...
Read moreGeithner as Buzz Lightyear on National Debt: To Infinity, and Beyond
President Obama's Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has embraced the “Buzz Lightyear” debt strategy to overcome the fiscal crisis known as the “fiscal cliff”:...
Read moreHouse Committee Investigates EPA’s Secret E-mail Accounts
Citing “a pattern of behavior directed at subverting transparency,” the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is requesting information from Environmental Protection...
Read moreKilling the Goose: Twinkies Bankruptcy
Killing the goose that lays the golden egg is one of those old fairy tales for children which has a heavy message that...
Read moreRobert Welch Accurately Predicted Fall Off Fiscal Cliff in 1974
At a JBS Council Dinner in 1974, founder Robert Welch accurately predicted the U.S. approach to the fiscal cliff. ...
Read morePhilosophy and Culture in the Thought of Nietzsche
Given the recent reelection of President Obama and his fellow partisans, this just might not be a bad time to acquaint ourselves with...
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