One maverick resident of Riviera Beach, FL discovered the price of obstructing the city government's waterfront redevelopment plan, which would uproot thousands of local residents and businesses to benefit a private development company: repeated harassment by city henchmen, arrest, eviction ...
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Anthropogenic global warming... yet another broken government promise. So says Dafydd ab Hugh at Big Lizards, who is struck by the fact that Russian ships at the North Pole have been "ploughing their way through deep ice for over a ...
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Writing on the State Policy Network Blog, Tarren Bragdon puts the "do we need to expand SCHIP debate" in perspective, for Maine, at least. He cites figures showing that only 2.6 of Maine residents under 18 are uninsured and not ...
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Doug Bandow had an article in the American Spectator Monday, harshly critical of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST): In short, the LOST is unsalvageable. It reflects the collectivist political environment within which it was first negotiated. Protecting navigational ...
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In a rich nation such as the United States, it can be easy to be green. Americans can often afford heeding the advice of Al Gore and reducing their "carbon footprint" with 40-watt fluorescent light bulbs that are almost 15 ...
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A Personal Reflection Free market advocates have long opposed price gouging laws on the grounds that such laws interfere with market forces and ultimately lead to shortages.  But I'm now rethinking this position. It is getting increasingly difficult to ignore ...
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Regulations Rob Black Americans by Stella Dulanya (bio) Americans are increasingly finding their liberty at risk.  The staggering degree to which government regulations pushed by politicians and unelected bureaucrats now harm the average citizen is not only egregious, but also ...
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  NAACP Rejects Life by Akindele Akinyemi (bio) It is disturbing to hear the NAACP rejected out-of-hand a pro-life resolution submitted for consideration at their recent annual conference in Detroit. One would think the NAACP would support life over death, ...
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A white person wary of black teens in baggy jeans is not necessarily a racist, says Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie in an article about continuing racism faced by blacks, especially black males, in New York state's Journal News by ...
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Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute was unlucky enough to appear -- briefly -- in Michael Moore's new movie, Sicko. As an American who was born and raised in Canada, she knows about the Canadian health care system, and ...
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