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Cato debunks the myth that 90 percent of guns seized from Mexican drug cartels come from the US illegally.

Time Warner is cutting people off without notice for using too much bandwidth. They should announce an upper limit on bandwidth and give a warning before they do that.

Astronomers capture most distant object ever - a gamma ray burst almost as old as the universe.

North Korea re-starts processing nuclear fuel. Why haven't we blown up all of North Korea's nuclear plants?

Story about mercury cleanup shows how our society is actually devolving under the pretense of evolving.

Mises scholar says universities are microcosms of socialism and necessarily indoctrinate college students into a socialist mindset and exposes the real motives behind the left's push for more government control of universities.

After decades of success because of its adoption of economic freedom, China is reverting to government driven stimulus and inflationary monetary policy, much like the US. It's good to know the communists are as stupid as our government for once.

Cato joins every sane person in the world in calling for an end to the death tax.

I'm tired of people blasting the US for calling waterboarding torture when it was used on Americans in the past but not now that we're using it against an enemy that flies planes into buildings and beheads its captives. When our enemies use an effective technique on Americans, it's the government's responsibility to do everything in its power to stop them, even if that means calling the technique torture even though it isn't true. We didn't use the technique in the past because it would have violated the Geneva Convention. But now that we're fighting an enemy that doesn't wear uniforms and doesn't even pretend to acknowledge the Geneva Convention, we aren't limited by the Geneva Convention either. Waterboarding is not torture. It never was torture. It was just to our advantage to call it torture to protect Americans in the past. The smart thing now is to show that it isn't torture, which has been done with many demostrations including Steve Harrigan and Christopher Hitchens, both of whom immediately got up and were no worse for wear, and use the technique on captured terrorists who likely have high value intelligence that will save American lives.

The Obama administration is floundering over the issue of harsh interrogations past and potentially future. There's conflict between the ideologues who want to make America weak and those who want to do the right thing for Americans.

IRS pirate problem.

Obama appointed the CEO of MADD mothers, a freedom hating prohibitionist, to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Is anybody surprised that over half of Senators have their kids in private school? The children of the other half must have already graduated from private school.

The way to develop renewable energy faster is to dramatically reduce the size and scope of government and adopt the FairTax, freeing up trillions of dollars a year to go into new investments like alternative energy.

Reason blasts the Obama/Kennedy paid government volunteer program. They want to make it out that government work is somehow more noble than working in the private sector. Hardly.

In this great essay, Victor Davis Hansen says our nonsensical world will probably get worse before it gets better.