Gene Beato: Government-Issued Comics For Propaganda

How government turned comic books into propaganda.  Comic books, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham argued in a 1953 Ladies Home Journal article that preceded his 1954 best-seller, Seduction of the Innocent, were instruction manuals for everything from shoplifting in department stores to tween lust-murder. If one were to set out how to teach children   ... MORE

Rasmussen Poll: 6% Rate News Media As Very Trustworthy

What are they thinking?        Most voters still get their news from television and consider the news reported by the media generally trustworthy. Fifty-six percent (56%) of Likely U.S. Voters say they get most of their news from TV, including 32% who get it from cable news networks and 24% who get it from traditional network news. A new        ... MORE

VIDEO: 13 Obama Tax Hikes on the Middle Class in 2013

What Does DOJ REALLY Think About Gun Control?

by Melancton Smith.   According to a DOJ memo obtained by the NRA, Washington really knows that assault weapons are infrequently used in crimes and that banning high capacity magazines really will not change anything. These are just drums beat by the administration to get the public in a frenzy over the “epidemic” of gun violence. So what do they    ... MORE

Why Blacks And Women Should Not Have Guns

by William A Levinson.     The Democratic Party believes that it owns the African-American vote, and it also looks to women for much of its support.  This support requires serious reconsideration.  The Colorado Democratic Party, as represented by State Rep. Joe Salazar, has said openly that women are too mentally unstable to handle firearms       ... MORE

J Sullum: Where Does A Cop With An 80-lb Dog Search?

Answer: Anywhere he wants.   Imagine that a police officer, after taking it upon himself to search someone's car, is asked to explain why he thought he would find contraband there. "A little birdie told me," he replies. Most judges would react with appropriate skepticism to such a claim. But substitute "a big dog" for "a little birdie," and you've ... MORE

America In Denial As Fiscal Tsunami Appoaches

by Gene Healy. It's hard to hear yourself think over all the caterwauling on Capitol Hill about the looming sequestration "crisis." For opponents of the spending cuts—at $85 billion, 2.3 percent of the $3.6 trillion federal budget—the rallying cry is half Lord Keynes, half St. Augustine: "Grant me chastity and continence—but not yet." But the time for a little  ... MORE

VIDEO: Do Homeowners Really Need An Assault Rifle?

Cop Recorded Punching Woman In Face Found Not Guilty

Judge declares he meant no harm.   Despite being caught on video violently punching a small woman in the face, police officer Jonathan Josey was found not guilty by Philadelphia Municipal Judge Patrick Dugan in a nonjury trial after telling the judge he didn't mean to punch the woman in the face, we was only trying to knock a beer out of her hand.    ... MORE

Jeffrey Lord: Abolish The Department Of Education

Do it for the children.    The Washington Post was alarmed. And House Republicans seem to be asleep. On Monday’s front page was the latest Obama horror story of what lay ahead for the fifty states if the sequester went into effect. Wrote the Post: The White House on Sunday detailed how the deep spending cuts set to begin this week would affect   ... MORE

VIDEO: Ruger on Freedom and Tyranny

IBD: EPA Ups Mandate For Nonexistent Fuels

Bureaucrats impose more pain at the pump.   In yet another green folly, the lawless Environmental Protection Agency continues to fine gasoline producers for not using cellulosic biofuels in quantities that don't exist, making only more pain at the pump. Last month, a federal court dealt a serious blow to the Environmental Protection Agency's renewable  ... MORE