Politics & Rights

Employers, employees, and consumers have a moral right to engage in commerce on a holiday.

In a recent Investor’s Business Daily editorial, Thomas Sowell discusses the political left’s war on achievement. As an example of the kind of achievement he sees as an affront to the left, he describes the accomplishments of “an upbeat young black man who was born without arms.” Sowell cites an…

After the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) drove the company that produced Buckyballs (small magnets sold to adults as toys) out of business, the agency sought to hold Craig Zucker—former CEO of the company—personally liable for the cost of the recall. Zucker fought back with his United We Ball PR…

Exposes major problems with libertarianism, compares it to radical capitalism, and shows why only the latter provides a viable defense of liberty.

Robert Garmong reviews The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, by David Stockman.

UPI reports one of the bizarre aspects of U.S. farm policy: Fifty billionaires on the Forbes list of the U.S. richest have received $11.3 million in federal farm subsidies [between 1995 and 2012], the Environmental Working Group [EWG] said Thursday. Recipients of the subsidies include Paul Allen (cofounder of Microsoft),…

My grandparents ate Crisco—a product notoriously high in “trans” (hydrogenated) fats—daily for years, and that practice may have contributed to their heart disease (they both suffered heart attacks). I personally seek to minimize the trans fats in my diet; I eat a tiny amount a few times per year at…

Here’s to all the U.S. veterans who have fought or are fighting to defend freedom and civilized society.

Last Tuesday, New Jersey voters "overwhelmingly approved" a state constitutional amendment raising the minimum wage and automatically increasing it in the future based on the consumer price index or the federal minimum wage rate, whichever is higher. Echoing a widespread sentiment, one proponent of the measure said, "New Jersey’s voters…

It’s as though Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro turned to the villains of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged for inspiration. “Maduro seized control of a nationwide chain of appliance stores Friday,” accused the store managers of “usury,” and vowed to unload the merchandise at cut-rate prices, the Associated Press reports. “Leave nothing…