Touré: Marijuana Should Be Decriminalized
How much more tail-chasing do we require? New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to change New York’s laws to decriminalize marijuana. New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly have rushed to agree. Cuomo’s proposed change is a repudiation of Bloomberg’s stop-and-frisk program, which has arrested more than 400,000 ... MOREAlana Goodman: Good Riddance To Payroll Fairness Act
Thank you Republicans! The Senate voted down the Paycheck Fairness Act yesterday, a bill that was ostensibly aimed at closing the fabled 77-cent-on-the-dollar pay gap between men and women in the workplace (and in reality aimed at helping Democrats increase the gender vote gap between them and Republicans next November). The bill failed mainly along ... MOREJohn Stossel: Uncertainty Paralysis
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Playing the game without knowing the rules. President Obama would do us all a big favor if he'd ask himself this: "Would I start or expand a business without knowing what regulations or taxes government will impose next year?" If he'd just stop and ask that, he'd have a sense of what's wrong with the economy. He'd understand why a country that must create ... MOREWhere Is The Outrage Over Domestic Use Of Drones?
by Andrew Napolitano. For the past few weeks, I have been writing in this column about the government's use of drones and challenging their constitutionality on Fox News Channel where I work. I once asked on air what Thomas Jefferson would have done if--had drones existed at the time--King George III had sent drones to peer inside the bedroom ... MOREJury Nullification's Long History Of Righting Wrongs
by Frank Parlato. Below is something that somehow is not taught in public schools. It is history nonetheless and easy enough for any one who is interested to verify. Jury ended power of King In 1215, when the Barons of England compelled King John to sign the Magna Carta, trial by jury was established. The King now had to seek permission through 12 ... MORE
Nothing To Hide? Let Police 'Force Catheterize' You
We must protect society from suspected pot smokers. A 22-year-old college student has filed an $11 million federal lawsuit against police in central Utah, claiming they forced a catheter in him after he refused to consent to a search for marijuana. Stephan Cook filed the lawsuit against a Sanpete County Sheriff’s deputy; an Ephraim police officer ... MOREGovernment Seen To Threaten More Than Protect Rights
Latest Rasmussen poll reveals a perceptive public. More than half of Americans, 51 percent, believe that the federal government is more a threat to their rights than a protector of them, according to the latest Rasmussen poll. Only 34 percent of those polled in the May 29-30 telephone survey see the federal government more as a protector ... MOREJames S Robbins: The Coming American Counterrevolution
A divided nation faces down fundamental change. The partisan divide in the United States may be past the point of no return. It could well be a symptom of greater changes in the American polity that herald the advent of potentially revolutionary change. On Monday, the Pew Research Center issued its annual report on American values, which revealed ... MOREDavid Harsanyi: The Democrats' 'Fairness' Canard
Beating back the woman haters. Only one group of Americans can make this nation a fairer place: trial lawyers. After all, crushing injustice has enveloped the nation. New Yorkers make more money than Iowans. Female lawyers earn more than male fishermen. People who are 6 feet tall -- and I saw this in a semi-scientific study -- earn, on average, about ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: The Devil In Rudy Eugene
Society's readiness to believe in satanic substances. Casting about for a reason why Rudy Eugene gnawed off most of a homeless man's face in an unprovoked attack on Miami's MacArthur Causeway last month, his girlfriend suggested he may have been the victim of a voodoo curse. Or maybe he was drugged, she told The Miami ... MORE
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