6 Months of Legal Pot In Colorado: More Money, Less Crime
by Laura Pegram. Bad news for drug warriors. With the passage of Amendment 64 in November 2012, Colorado made history and became one of the first two states to approve legal regulation of the cultivation, manufacture and sale of marijuana for adults 21 and over. Colorado has become a proving ground to demonstrate the positive impacts ... MORE
Cal Thomas: America's DNA: 'The Federalist Papers'
Reclaiming the promise of America. There are many ways to lose freedom -- conquering armies, surrendering without a fight. Unfortunately, we are currently surrendering our freedom, not to a foreign power, but to our own government. The growth, reach, and cost of big government is happening before our eyes and eroding ... MORERobert Taylor: 5 Loners & Introverts Who Changed History
Mencken-Rand-Tesla-Mises-Solzhenitsyn. In a time dominated by flashes of celebrity, screaming talking heads on
TV, and cities that don’t sleep, introverts and loners have few places
to fit in. But as Laurie Helgoe argues in Psychology Today, those that are slightly uncomfortable with a noisy culture often have the biggest impact on society. ... MORENick Gillespie: The Shittiest President Since World War II
The survey says: The
folks at Quinniapiac College have just released a new poll that
must surely be making the rounds of the White House bunker. After
talking to about 1,500 registered voters nationwide, Quinniapic
finds that one-third of Americans rate Barack Obama as the worst
president since 1945. Another 28 percent say George W. ... MOREThomas Sowell: America's Birthday
What are we celebrating? Birthdays are supposed to be times for celebration and gift-giving. But America's upcoming birthday on the Fourth of July is a time when the gift most needed is an urgent warning about the dangers of losing the things that have made this country America — and have long made "America" a ringing word of ... MOREThousands Of Americans Subject To Warrantless Searches
by Kristian Foden-Vencil. The U.S. Intelligence community has informed Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden that it has searched the information of thousands of Americans as part of its foreign surveillance efforts. The searches happen when the government targets a foreigner and Americans get swept up. Wyden says that means e-mails, phone calls ... MOREJ.D. Tucille: Americans Feel Less Free—And They're Right!
Government is the problem. Over the past eight years, the share of Americans
who feel satisfied with the amount of freedom in their lives has
plummeted from 91 percent to 79 percent, according to a Gallup
survey. That may explain earlier polling that found widespread
perception that the
government itself is the largest problem facing ... MOREJohn Stossel - "Crapitalism!"
The game of political power. There's capitalism, and then there's "crapitalism" — crony capitalism. Capitalism is great because it lets entrepreneurs raise money so they can scale up and get their products and services to more people. If there is free competition, innovators with the best ideas raise the most money, and the best and cheapest ... MORELaw Review: Loss Of Assets Shines Light On Civil Forfeiture
by Chris Mondics. Police have incentive to legally steal. At once tidy and stalwart, but pockmarked, too, with its share of boarded-up homes, Elizabeth Young's neighborhood in the Cobbs Creek section of West Philadelphia is the epitome of urban grit. No one would mistake this tough patch of the city for a hotbed of real estate action. ... MOREWalter E Williams: Economic Freedom
Another thing Obama fails to understand. A couple of years ago, President Barack Obama, speaking on the economy, told an audience in Osawatomie, Kansas: "'The market will take care of everything,' they tell us. ... But here's the problem: It doesn't work. It has never worked. ... I mean, understand, it's not as if we haven't tried this theory." ... MOREWhat Americans Need to Know About the History of Spying
Spying has always been used to crush dissent. Americans are told that we live in a “post-9/11 reality” that requires mass surveillance. But the NSA was already conducting mass surveillance prior to 9/11 … including surveillance on the 9/11 hijackers. And top security experts – including the highest-level government officials and the ... MORESteve Watson: Police State USA 2014 - Oregon Celebrates Independence Day… With ‘No Refusal’ Blood Checkpoints
And you thought police protect individual liberty? During Independence Day weekend, a time to celebrate US freedom and
unalienable rights, Americans in Oregon will be subjected to a “blitz”
of ‘no-refusal’ blood-draw checkpoints, as part of a disturbing trend
that now extends nationwide. Local news station KVAL reports that ... MORE
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