While folks in the Northeast continue to freeze their way through this not very globally warmed winter, there is plenty of cheap fuel available in Texas to help warm them up. Unfortunately due to archaic federal protectionist regulations, there's no way to get the fuel to them. When we free-marketers talk about unintended consequences of government intervention in the marketplace, this is exactly the type of thing we have in mind.

As freezing weather drained stockpiles of propane to their lowest seasonal level in two decades on the U.S. East Coast this month, shivering New Englanders couldn’t tap abundant supplies sailing out of

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Texas electricity regulators and their allies in the power generation industry who have been advocating for a new $4 Billion electricity tax are being stymied by reality as more people realize that Texas doesn't have a power generation capacity problem. As the Dallas Morning News reports today, there is no power generation capacity crisis. This may come as a big shock to the central planners in Austin, but the free market works. When the balance of supply and demand shifts in favor of new capacity, the generators will build new plants...

There are many who claim voter fraud doesn't exist, that Voter ID laws are not necessary, and that promoting voter registration integrity is disenfranchising to minority voters. None of that is true, of course. But don't look for traditional media to do hard hitting investigative journalism to ferret out the truth. For that kind of job we need one James O'Keefe. It's getting harder and harder to be a voter fraud denier these days.

In order for a taxing authority to retain the public trust, if not the public's respect, the authority must be widely understood to be apolitical and to simply carry out the policy set forth in law. No one likes being taxed but everyone understands that Congress has the power to tax and that by collecting taxes and conducting occasional audits to ensure compliance with the law the IRS is just doing its job as directed by Congress. It's supposed to work this way year in and year out across administrations regardless of what political party is in power.

Unfortunately, the...

Via the Dallas Morning News there is a fight brewing between Texas and Ohio over the permanent home of the Boeing 707 that served as Air Force One at the time President Kennedy's assassination elevated Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson to the presidency. It's in Ohio now but many Texans, led by the LBJ Foundation, want it relocated to Texas. It seems like Texas has the stronger case. That plane, on which President Kennedy made his final flight and on which President Johnson took the oath of office, is most historically connected to Texas and it should be displayed...

States use occupational licensing to protect entrenched business interests and keep newcomers out. This could never happen in Texas, right? Right, guys.....?

Via the Heritage Foundation, a look a How MLK's Faith Influenced His Public Life.

Travis County anti-gun extremists have cost the county revenue by changing the lease terms for the gun show that has been hosted at the Travis County Exposition Center on a monthly basis for several years. The controversial new lease terms imposed by the county would have required the gun show to force private firearm sellers to conduct background checks that are not required under federal or state law. Just like any other type of private transaction, firearms transactions between private citizens do not require background checks. According to news reports, Saxet Gun Shows declined to capitulate to...

Michael Moore has rightfully declared that Obamacare is a disaster.

I didn't expect 2014 to be going so well this quickly!

When the government decides what products people should and should not buy, it's lights out.

The Washington Post is brazenly and shamefully politicizing the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre by using the one year anniversary of the shooting as pretext to run a story about "gun violence".  In their eagerness to make a renewed push for unconstitutional infringement of the 2nd Amendment they have asked people to send them stories they can use as examples. Apparently "gun violence" is rare enough that the Washington Post, with its army of reporters and layers and layers of fact checkers can't find these stories on their own; they have to rely on crowdsourcing.

What should be a time for...