Opinion

Bullet train becoming ‘Moonbeam Express'

In a brazen denial of the obvious, Gov. Jerry Brown now insists the proposed California high-speed rail can be built for much less than its own business plan stipulates, and wants to use anti-global-warming carbon taxes to underwrite the proposal, wh... Full story

Letters to the editor, Feb. 3, 2012

Stop signs, not roundabouts I would like to say the roundabouts are another waste of money. Just like the study done on Muriel and Rimrock a while back. It resulted in a few signs being put up, which speeders still ignore and people are still in har... Full story

Good night for Romney, Obama

Mitt Romney has clearly prevailed in his costly and bitter Republican presidential primary fight in Florida against Newt Gingrich, collecting the Sunshine State's full complement of 50 convention delegates. Despite Mr. Romney's sizable margin of vic... Full story

The problem with policing the world

By JOHN STOSSEL

With an election approaching and at least some Americans upset about irresponsible spending, the president has finally expressed a political interest in cutting something. He says the Pentagon will spend “only” $525 billion next year. Tha... Full story

Obama can't kick habit of government interventionism

Thinking it Through, by RICHARD REEB

President Obama evidently can’t look upon American commerce without finding cause to interfere with it or tax it, especially when entrepreneurs and capitalists successfully escape the federal government’s clutches. The president’s S... Full story

Ready for ‘Reasonable Profits Board'?

Those who cannot remember the 1970s are condemned to repeat them. Even if you're too young to remember the Disco Decade, you've doubtless seen pictures of cars lined up waiting to pump scarce gas at filling stations. We'd suffer that again if Rep. D... Full story

New surveillance tools threaten our privacy

By JACOB SULLUM

“If you win this case,” Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer told Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben during oral argument in U.S. v. Jones last fall, “there is nothing to prevent the police or the government from monitoring 24... Full story

Obama has greens squirming a bit

When President Barack Obama promised last week to open 75 percent of potential offshore gas and oil resources to drilling and praised the controversial fracking method for extracting untapped oil reserves on land, a collective shudder went through hi... Full story

‘Narrow' win for limits on police searches

The Fourth Amendment right to protection against "unreasonable searches and seizures" has won an important battle. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that police cannot attach a GPS tracking system to a vehicle without first getting a warrant fro... Full story

I want my planet back

Florida is the state that put the first man on the moon, NBC’s Brian Williams noted at the Republican presidential debate in Tampa. He asked the candidates, “At a time when you all want to shrink federal spending, should space exploration... Full story

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