A fed crackdown would backfire. This week the Colorado General Assembly put the finishing
touches on
legislation aimed at taxing and regulating the commercial
distribution of marijuana for recreational use. The process has
been haunted by the fear that the federal government will try to
quash this momentous experiment in pharmacological ... MOREJacob Sullum: The Cannabis Is Out Of The Bag
A fed crackdown would backfire. This week the Colorado General Assembly put the finishing
touches on
legislation aimed at taxing and regulating the commercial
distribution of marijuana for recreational use. The process has
been haunted by the fear that the federal government will try to
quash this momentous experiment in pharmacological ... MOREGun Crime Has Plunged, But Americans Think It Is Up
Emily Alpert on a Pew Research study. Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show. Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, according to a ... MOREMichael J. Hurd: Religion, Education And The State
Is religion 'free' to spend tax dollars? Northwest Rankin High School in Flowood, Mississippi is under fire for allegedly forcing its students to attend and listen to Christian lectures during three assemblies held in April alone. Worse yet, students were barred from leaving and teachers blocked the exits to prevent any of them from doing so. A lawsuit ... MOREObama Wants Millennials To Love Big Government
by Gene Healy. There's a specter haunting America's youth, President Obama warned in his commencement address to Ohio State University graduates Sunday -- the specter of "cynicism." In Obama's account, sinister (but unnamed) "voices" have been busily corrupting the once-idealistic Generation Y with a siren song of "creeping cynicism" toward ... MOREThomas Sowell: Bouncing Ball Politics
Danger ahead. If you are driving along and suddenly see a big red rubber ball come bouncing out into the street, you might want to put your foot on the brake pedal, because a small child may well come running out into the street after it. We all understand that an inexperienced young child who has his mind fixed on one thing may ignore other things that ... MOREJonah Goldberg: Obama's Narrow Vision Of A Civil Society
Obama doesn't want you to worry about tyranny. On Sunday, President Obama delivered the commencement address at Ohio State University. He once again gave voice to the essential element of his philosophy of government: Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn
of government as nothing more than some ... MOREVIDEO: Fox News - Internet Wiretap Proposal
Judge Andrew Napolitano on government's latest attempt to bypass 4th Amendment protections.
Rasmussen Poll: Nullification Goes Mainstream
by Mike Maharrey. Day after day, the media pounds out a relentless drumbeat against nullification. Pundits, commentators and so-called legal experts demonize it as
unconstitutional, villainize it as racist and trivialize it with slurs
like “wacky” and “kookie.” But while the political class continues to arrogantly ridicule Madison and Jefferson’s ... MOREJohn Stossel: Live Free Or Move
Voting with your feet. Forty-three million Americans moved from one state to another between 1995 and 2010 — about one-seventh of Americans. It's good that we can move! Moving provides one of the few limits on the megalomania of state bureaucrats. Americans have moved away from high-taxed, heavily regulated states to lower-taxed, ... MOREVIDEO: Will Conservatives Sellout Consumers?
Politicians plot to separate more people from their money.
Jackie Calmes: New Worries For Democrats On Health Law
Once ObamaCare is law, there will be hell to pay. As the administration struggles to put in place the final, complex piece of President Obama’s signature health care law, an endeavor on a scale not seen since Medicare’s
creation nearly a half-century ago, Democrats are worried that major
snags will be exploited by Republicans in ... MORE
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