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   ... MORE

Alana 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 ... MORE

John Stossel: Uncertainty Paralysis

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  ... MORE

Where 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   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - How Effective Is Class Warfare?

Jury 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   ... MORE

VIDEO: Failed Recall Means The End Of Democracy


A union drama queen takes defeat rather hard. 

Government 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 ... MORE

James 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 ... MORE

David 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

VIDEO: William F Buckley Jr - Conservatively Speaking

Young & Crews: Washington's 10,000 Commandments

Regulations and red tape should be campaign issue.  Deficits, taxes, and spending are the defining issues of the 2012 campaign. Regulation deserves a seat at the table, too. The federal government spent $3.6 trillion in 2011. But according to the Small Business Administration (SBA), the annual cost of complying with federal regulations has exceeded $1 trillion  ... MORE

Larry Downes: Government Control Of Net Always Bad Idea

The misguided ambitions of local regulators. An important law that would protect California consumers from state-level regulation of VoIP and other IP-based services passed the California State Senate late last week on a bipartisan 30-6 vote. The bill, SB 1161, now moves to the State Assembly, which has scheduled hearings for June 11. SB 1161 is   ... MORE

VIDEO: End the War on George Washington's Favorite Crop


ReasonTV's contribution to Hemp History Week

Sorry Global Warming Alarmists, The Earth Is Cooling

by Peter Ferrara.    Climate change itself is already in the process of definitively rebutting climate alarmists who think human use of fossil fuels is causing ultimately catastrophic global warming.  That is because natural climate cycles have already turned from warming to cooling, global temperatures have already been declining for more than 10 years   ... MORE

Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Lunges Toward Global Government

His second term could take us over the cliff.   One of the biggest issues in the November election is whether we will continue or stop President Obama's move toward restricting U.S. sovereignty and rushing down the road to global governance. One would think that the obvious failure of the European Union and disdain for the euro would put  ... MORE

Thomas Kaplan: Plan To Limit Marijuana Arrests In NYC

A grain of sanity infiltrates the big apple. The New York Police Department, the mayor and the city’s top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on the number of people arrested ... MORE