A just-retired public school principal writes me after my special:

You nailed the problems and issues in today's public education... with the current teacher unions, textbook companies, and especially teacher TENURE... teacher "tenure" is all but stopping 21st Century educational reform all over the United States... continue reading »

I titled my show tonight, "What if Libertarians Were in Charge?"

I don't expect the world to become libertarian any time soon. But perhaps "free cities" will take hold and give people options to move to a more libertarian society.

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Cubans gear up for change. According to this week's New York Times, buying and selling homes in Cuba will be legal by the end of the year. It's about time.

In 1959, the Cuban government banned private property sales. The economy remained stagnant for five decades... continue reading »

The number of Internet users worldwide has now surpassed two billion and so many of us have integrated the web into our lives that it's hard to quantify how much it's worth to us. But The Fund for American Studies gave it a shot.

They asked people this question:.

How much would someone have to pay you to give up the Internet for the rest of your life?

Would a million dollars be enough? Twenty million? How about a billion dollars? ... continue reading »

Obama recently said he would investigate speculation in the oil market.. “We are going to make sure that no one is taking advantage of the American people for their own short-term gain,”

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders thinks he already knows why gas prices rose.

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On my FBN show this week, we cover entrepreneurs, like the ones who created Intel, Genentech, Apple, Cisco, Microsoft. They created vast wealth and, of course, cool things. Is it coincidence that all that creation happened in San Francisco and Seattle, the two metropolitan areas farthest from Washington DC? I doubt it. Sadly, those company now spend millions on lobbying—millions that would be better spent on inventing.

We’d be better off if we just had fewer rules... continue reading »

On The Factor tonight, O’Reilly will debate me about rising oil prices. Bill sees a conspiracy (though he denies that it's a "conspiracy theory.") He once said: “the oil companies are rigged. The markets are rigged. With supply and demand having little to do with what we pay at the gas pump.”

Nonsense. The markets aren’t even rigged by OPEC. OPEC produces 40% of the world’s crude oil, according to the Energy Information Administration. 40% hardly gives them monopoly power... continue reading »

No group has been more "helped" by the American government than American Indians. Yet no group in America does worse.

Almost a quarter of Native Americans live in poverty. 66 percent are born to single mothers. They have short life spans. Indian activists say the solution is -surprise- more money from the government. But Washington already spends about $13 billion on programs for Indians every year... continue reading »

The time to end the government powered ethanol subsidy has come… and gone… multiple times. It’s an expensive waste of money, and a GAO report confirms that if it is left unchanged, the  

… annual cost to the Treasury in forgone revenues could grow from $5.4 billion in 2010 to $6.75 billion in 2015... continue reading »

Yesterday Vice President Biden announced a new multi-billion dollar push for high-speed rail.  Before that he proudly gave a $118.5 million dollar grant to a battery company to spur the development of electric cars... continue reading »