The Daily Caller

The Daily Caller

Do people have free will?

| Matt Cockerill

Author Sam Harris says we don’t have free will. He’s right.

The case against happiness-based economics

| Max Borders

Why the idea of happiness-based economics is morally bankrupt and potentially dangerous.

About the new tone

| Ryan Young

Are we doomed to a permanently low level of political discourse?

America needs more virtue, not more laws

| Paul Skousen

What happened in Arizona doesn’t show that we have a surplus of freedom; it shows that we have a deficit of virtue.

Reid Buckley does not understand postmodernism

| Mytheos Holt

If we are going to confront the chaotic, irrational black hole that is Left wing post-modernism, we cannot afford to be lazy in dismissing the entire beast.

Some wary over Obama-Google relationship - The Hill

| interns

Watchdog wants probe of Google’s ‘unusually close’ ties to Obama

Obamacare's blatant abuse of human rights

| Matt Kibbe

It’s ironic that the administration justifies its health care law on human rights grounds, considering that the law itself violates human rights.

Fiorina ad attacks Boxer for fudging facts - TheDC

| Alexis Levinson

Republican Carly Fiorina’s senatorial campaign launched a new ad attacking Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer for exaggerating facts when she talks about the economy and healthcare

Dirty pirates shoot American man in head - Denver Post

| interns

A Colorado man was apparently killed by Mexican pirates while sightseeing on a boat.

House ethics panel struggles to set dates for hearings - The Hill

| Pat McMahon

Trials for Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters have yet to be put on the calendar, indicating that they will be held after November’s election

Balancing the ethics formula: a tool for guiding our choices

| Dr. Abdullah Telmesani

In their struggle to survive the recession, some companies seem to have had to take drastic decisions that are not typical to their corporate cultural norms

Why I'm a conservative libertarian optimist

| Charles Couger

It may be true that we’ve lost tremendous amounts of personal liberty and economic freedom over the last decade. But of these are small speed bumps on a road that has let us out of the shackles of slavery and despotism to the closest we’ve ever been to a true regime of liberty

The conservative ascent

| Richard M. Reinsch II

Barack Obama’s precipitous rise to the White House and his awesome expansion of federal power are frequently explained either as the products of failure or as crucial elements in progressivism’s undoing of American Constitutionalism

A liberal God?

| Doug Bandow

Protest the Obama administration’s big spending, pervasive centralizing, expansive regulating policies, and you must be an enemy of all that is good and true

Challenging the NAACP, condemning the Tea Party express, yet confronting the truth on contemporary racism

| Lenny McAllister

Jealous and the NAACP sound like they’re backing off, and the TPE got the boot from the Federation, but without some real talk on where we are as a nation, we merely balk from opportunities to improve ourselves

Tea Party billboard gaining the national spotlight - AP

| interns

Many Tea Party members among billboard’s critics

Liberals flunk Economics 101

| Ron Hart

Many Americans no longer know what this country stands for. Taught by liberal educators who omit facts that do not fit their narrative, Americans have become lazy thinkers.

Going Google stupid

| Rob Bennett

We are losing the ability to think deep thoughts. So says an article posted today at the Atlantic web site.

Slackers, take heart! - NY Daily News

| interns

Study suggests that perfectionists are more likely to die earlier

Humanitarianism is fueled by free and open communication

| Elliot Engstrom

It would seem that one of the best methods we have available to us of limiting wars and violence is in fact keeping as open as possible the methods of modern communication