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Paramount Copyright Claim on Klingon Language Challenged in Klingon Language
Paramount's arguments lack reason, or "meq Hutlh."
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SpaceX Foots the Bill for 2018 Mission to Mars
Elon Musk is working with NASA to hustle an unmanned mission to the Red Planet. But he's writing the checks.
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Why Released Felons Should Be Allowed to Vote
Ban harms those who want to reintegrate back into society.
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The Fourth Amendment and the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
The USA Freedom Act provides cover for unconstitutional searches of citizens.
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Trump's Big Foreign Policy Speech: 3 Good, 3 Bad Things from Libertarian Perspective
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Baltimore Cops Shoot 13-Year-Old on One Year Anniversary of Freddie Gray Riots
"Police officers don't take days off," the police commissioner said.
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Ted Cruz Will Announce Carly Fiorina As His Running Mate. He Knows His Campaign’s In Trouble.
The early VP pick is a last-ditch effort to stop Trump.
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House Passes Bill Requiring Search Warrants to Access Your Old Emails
Current federal law treats online communications stored after 180 days as abandoned.
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Revealed: Donald Trump Got His Immigration Policy From Ann Coulter
And catch Nick Gillespie appearing with Coulter & Dan Savage on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday, May 8.
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An Open Letter From the GOP to the State's Criminal Class
A. Barton Hinkle takes McAuliffe up on the challenge of earning the votes of ex-felons
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A Soda Tax As Found Money
Hillary Clinton joins Philadelphia's mayor in playing down the levy's paternalistic purpose.
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Donald Trump Sweeps the 5 'Acela Primaries,' But the Republican Party Will Continue to Fracture
One thing Trump is right about: party politics is a "corrupt enterprise."
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Hillary Clinton Wins Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware, Wants Bernie Sanders to Kiss the Ring
Clinton rewrites history, forgetting the how hard she battled Barack Obama to the bitter end in 2008.
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Forget Denmark, Venezuela is the Real Culmination of Bernie’s Socialist Dreams
For the Vermont senator who favors press censorship and sees bread lines as evidence of success, the Bolivarian regime would seem to embody his ideals.
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Philly's Rep. Chaka Fattah First Incumbent to Lose Primary in 2016 Cycle
It was worth registering Democrat just to be part of getting rid of him.
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Sow Rape Culture Hyperbole, Reap Transgender Bathroom Paranoia
People are bombarded with misleading statistics about rape, child abductions, and sex trafficking. Should we blame them for being afraid?
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The Importance of Fracking on Earth Day
Lower gas prices probably helped President Obama get re-elected too.
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Is it a "Lie" That More People Carrying Guns Can Lead to Less Crime?
The Nation relies on ad hominem attacks on one gun researcher, not facts.
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Hillary Clinton, Borrowing From Rubio, Discovers Welders
If you thought the exit of Marco Rubio meant we could forget about the welder issue, alas, no such luck.
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FBI's Creepy Intiative to Turn Imams Into Informants
The Shared Committees Responsibility program is surveillance masquerading as community service for Muslims.
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Ted Cruz and John Kasich Are Teaming Up to Try to Stop Donald Trump at a Contested Convention
Two late night press releases reveal the unusual state of the GOP primary race.
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Fight Against NC LGBT Discrimination Law Reveals Hypocrisy Over 'Dark Money'
Corporations influencing politics is awful for liberals, unless the influence benefits their political agenda.
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Game of Thrones Returns: As Civilization Collapses, Government Is No Help
Westeros doesn't lack heroes, it lacks competent governance.
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Bernie Sanders Blames Losses on Poor People Not Voting—But Poor People Weren't Voting for Him Anyway
Leftists don't own the poor even though they've done their best to keep them in poverty.
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Bernie Sanders Wants to Legalize Marijuana...and Maybe Ban Cigarettes?
The senator says there's "almost the question" of why cigarettes are "a legal product in this country."
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EPA's Latest Swerve on Racing
EPA says it won't regulate amateur car racing, legislators not so sure.
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Need a Breather Before May Sweeps? Here, Have a Baby Elephant
Nature documentary highlights the rough childhoods of pachyderms.
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Movie Reviews: Elvis & Nixon and Men & Chicken
Michael Shannon does the almost impossible, Mads Mikkelsen the near-unbelievable.
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Finding the Middle Ground in Debate Over GMO Regulation
Should government policy be to favor or oppose GMOs? No.
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At Milo Yiannopoulos Protest, Prof's Hassling of Journalists Backfires After She Calls Cops
Melissa Click (the sequel) at American University.
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How New Hampshire Plans to Spike Its Sex-Trafficking Stats
No evidence of a real sex-trafficking epidemic? No problem! The state has ways of creating sex traffickers...
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Want to Fight the Terrorist Enemy? Start With Allies Like Saudi Arabia
Squashing terrorism without confronting its Sunni state incubators is like fighting a fire without plugging the gas leak.
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Earth Day 2016: Paris Climate Agreement Signed
Too weak or a giant bureaucratic threat to democracy?
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California GOP Blathers About Freedom, But Mostly Backs 'Secrecy Lobby'
Politicians from the party of Reagan and Lincoln should instinctively know the dangers of giving government officials unaccountable power.
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How Democrats Win Debates by Corrupting English
Sloppy language, sloppy thoughts.
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That Time Al and Tipper Gore Teamed Up To Brand Prince a Public Menace
Prince's "Darling Nikki" was number one on the censorious PMRC's "Filthy Fifteen" list.
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Nobody Walks in L.A.
And that is just fine.
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4 Ways Harriet Tubman Totally Kicked Ass From a Libertarian POV
The "Moses" of the Underground Railroad exemplified belief in self-ownership, liberty, equality before the law, and more.
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'Buy American' Hurts Americans
"Every part of my product is made in the USA." What could be wrong with that? Lots of things...
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Why It's Too Late to Scrap the Iran Deal
It wasn’t perfect, but the alternatives are much worse.
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The Limits to President Obama's Authority on Immigration Executive Orders
Is the president enforcing laws not as Congress wrote them, but as he wishes them to have been written?
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The Permanent Security State
Presidents come and go, but the national security bureaucracy never leaves.
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Marco Rubio Says He'll Endorse Donald Trump, Now That It's 'Apparent' Hillary Clinton Will Be Dem Nominee
A sign of things to come for "Never Trump"?
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How the President Can End Pot Prohibition Without Congress
Contrary to Obama's claims, he has the power to end the madness. Will he?
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Prof Who Won't Recommend a Pro-Gun Student Is Everything That's Wrong with Academia
Liberal academics who say they want more diversity are often lying.
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In Search of the Elusive Cultural Libertarian
You might be a cultural libertarian if... well, that depends on whom you ask.
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Donald Trump’s Win in New York Means the GOP Primary Is About to Get Very, Very Weird
The Republican primary race we are witnessing now has little contemporary precedent. That is part of what makes this race so unsettling and unpredictable.
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Great News! Harriet Tubman Will Replace Andrew Jackson on the Front of the $20 Bill
Alexander Hamilton, meanwhile, will stay on the $10 note.
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Gay Person + Cake = News, Even If It’s a Hoax
A likely fake incident becomes yet another culture war contretemps.
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Free Markets Would Improve Hospital Service
Instead, hospitals are run like socialist bureaucracies.
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Why Are We Expecting the Next President To Fix the Economy?
We should be demanding only that they don't keep screwing it up.
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The Sandy Hook Gun Lawsuit Panned and Praised by Sanders Has a Trial Date
What facts can the plaintiffs discover to substantiate their broad reading of "negligent entrustment"?
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Another Lesson from the Iraq War
Liberals and conservatives are short-sighted even when claiming to have learned their lessons.
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Bernie Sanders and the 'Right to Sue' Gun Suppliers
Has he changed his mind, or is he trying to have it both ways?
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Today at SCOTUS: Warrantless Drunk Driving Tests and the Fourth Amendment
Supreme Court weighs constitutional rights against law enforcement powers.
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Donald Trump Wins New York Primary, Taking Small But Significant Step Toward Nomination
We may not know for a while how many of the Empire State's 95 delegates will be awarded to Trump.
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Hillary Clinton Wins New York Primary, Is This the End of Bernie Sanders?
Sanders came onto Clinton's turf riding a winning streak, but he may no longer have a path to the nomination.
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How To Share the Restroom with a Trans Person
Four easy steps to help you get on with the rest of your life.
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Female Student Said, 'I'm Fine and I Wasn't Raped.' University Investigated, Expelled Boyfriend Anyway.
Wrongfully suspended male athlete is suing the university and the Education Department.
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Trump's Plan for Making Financial Black Markets Great Again
The presidential wannabe's scheme will likely draw more illegal immigrants and fuel illegal evasion of capital controls.
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The Press Is More Anti-Trump Than It Is Pro Free Speech
How the media stick up for rally protesters whom they would vilify in any other situation.
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New York's Stingy Voting Rules Will Hurt Independents, Bernie Sanders, and Probably Donald Trump
Major parties going to absurd length to beat back unaffiliated voters with a stick
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Supreme Court Makes Important Mandatory Minimum Ruling Retroactive
Some in federal prison may see sentence reductions.
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Bernie Sanders' Campaign Lawyers Do Not Appreciate Your "Bernie is My Comrade" T-Shirt
Does the Sanders campaign respect the First Amendment rights to satire and parody?
