Michael Schaus America. Home of the brave, and land of the “mostly” free. At least that’s the takeaway from the recent Index of Economic Freedom. For twenty years the Heritage Foundation has ranked the economic freedom of nations across the globe, and America has been slipping from the top. While much of the rest of […] Continue reading → 
Michael Snyder | American Dream Who in the world are we trying to kid? On July 4th, the United States will celebrate Independence Day once again. But who in the world are we trying to kid? Our founders intended to create a society where freedom and liberty would be maximized, but that is not what […] Continue reading → 
We declared our independence from Great Britain 238 years ago this week. It was a declaration long in coming, brought about by the overreaching rule of King George III and Britain’s insistence on taxation without representation. The taxation began in the 1760s, the Boston Massacre occurred in 1770, the Boston Tea Party in 1993 and […] Continue reading → 
After a brief holiday last week, I returned to some heavy reading courtesy of the federal government. Some of the materials that I read were gratifying, and one was terrifying. In one week, the Supreme Court told the police that if they want to examine the contents of our cellphones, whether at traffic stops or […] Continue reading → 
Ron Paul This week Americans will enjoy Independence Day with family cookouts and fireworks. Flags will be displayed in abundance. Sadly, however, what should be a celebration of the courage of those who risked so much to oppose tyranny will instead be turned into a celebration of government, not liberty. The mainstream media and opportunistic […] Continue reading → 
Somewhere between reason and feeling exists another basic component of our humanness known as conscience. So important is this faculty of human existence-an individual’s conviction about the rightness or wrongness of their actions-that James Madison believed conscience should have been a permanent part of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, even an unalienable right. […] Continue reading → 
The Free Thought Project A particularly disheartening video was uploaded to facebook late Tuesday night. It takes place in Rochester, NY on the 4/4X Hudson Regional Transit Service Bus. The video shows one Regional Transit Officer telling the woman to get off the bus because she hadn’t paid the fare. However, according to all the witnesses […] Continue reading → 
Jeff Jacoby, THE GREAT state of Minnesota, you’ll be glad to learn, is no longer interested in the size and color of your bug deflector. The legislature in St. Paul recently scrapped the 1953 law regulating that automotive accessory, one of almost 1,200 antiquated or bizarre laws that Governor Mark Dayton recommended repealing as part […] Continue reading → 
police state USA TULSA, OK — Two teens sharing a private moment in a school parking lot were chased away in a hail of gunfire by an armed campus cop. The disturbing incident took place when a boy and girl parked in the darkened lot of Eliot Elementary School at 1:30 a.m. on May 25th. […] Continue reading → 
Attorney: Police routinely engaging in “egregious constitutional violations”. An Indiana woman is suing the Floyd County Jail in New Albany after video emerged of police officers forcibly stripping her and locking her up, completely naked, in a cell full of pepper spray for seven hours. Worse still, the woman’s attorney believes that this is routine […] Continue reading → 
GOP The Daily Dose – by Rick Wells On Jan. 10, 1963, ten-term Democrat Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr., who represented Florida’s 5th District, read a list of 45 Communist goals into the Congressional Record. The list was derived from researcher and former FBI agent Cleon Skousen’s book “The Naked Communist.” Of course this isn’t new information, but […] Continue reading → 
Last week Americans were shocked and saddened by another mass killing, this one near a college campus in California. We all feel deep sympathy for the families of the victims. As usual, many people responded to this shooting by calling for new federal gun control laws, including the mental health screening of anyone attempting to […] Continue reading → 
Officer seized phone, deleted footage An Albuquerque man who was arrested for failing to stop at a stop sign and DWI last month refused to comply with an officer’s order to sit on the curb. The result – the officer attacked him with such force that he lost a testicle. UNM law student Jeremy Martin […] Continue reading → 
The Internet has emerged as the most empowering tool of individual freedom since the Gutenberg’s press, affording billions of people worldwide not only the tool of instant communication, but access to a wealth of liberating information, freedom from the chains of received consensus, and the opportunity to become their own media platform. This represents an […] Continue reading → 
B. Christopher Agee In a move even the left-leaning Daily Beast called “silly,” a Rutgers University protest earlier this month led to a former Secretary of State scrapping a planned speech on campus. This is just one example of the shortsighted activism among some college students that results in less exposure to alternate and valuable […] Continue reading → 
Joe NewbyExaminer.com Greg Stoneburner, a senior who just graduated from Central High School in Grand Junction, Colo., said he was told in no uncertain terms that he was no longer welcome at the school after raising a Gadsden flag on the school’s flagpole. Moreover, he told Examiner.com in an exclusive interview Friday, the principal withheld […] Continue reading →