The relentless effort of regulators to reduce options. If there’s agreement about anything in our hotly-politicized environment today it is that while we work to find sensible and principled solutions to real-world problems, we also need to do a better job coming to consensuses. But when it comes to addressing obesity, the most prominent public ... MOREJeff Stier: Obesity Police Launch A Needless War
The relentless effort of regulators to reduce options. If there’s agreement about anything in our hotly-politicized environment today it is that while we work to find sensible and principled solutions to real-world problems, we also need to do a better job coming to consensuses. But when it comes to addressing obesity, the most prominent public ... MOREPolice Chief Seeks To Nullify Unconstitutional Gun Control
by Alex Newman. While the Obama administration and some Democrat lawmakers plot ever more extreme assaults on the Second Amendment,
state and local officials across the country are working just as hard
to find ways to protect the gun rights of law-abiding citizens in their
jurisdictions. One local Pennsylvania police chief is helping to lead
the way, asking ... MOREThomas Sowell: Liberalism Vs. Blacks
Evidence can be a real inconvenience. There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing
concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words
match the actual consequences of their deeds? San Francisco is a classic example of a city unexcelled in its
liberalism. But the black population of San Francisco today is less ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Spending Cuts Are Mostly Fiction
Would you like to save $20,000 this year? Of course you would. Here’s how: Plan a month-long vacation to Disneyland, and budget $20,000 for the trip. Then don’t go. Presto! You just “cut” your family budget by 20 grand. This sounds absurd—because it is. Yet that is precisely
how Washington operates. A couple of weeks ago, ... MORE
Biden: White House Eying 19 Executive Actions On Guns
Obama prepares to deploy tyrannical measures. The White House has identified 19 executive actions for President Barack Obama to move unilaterally on gun control, Vice President Joe Biden told a group of House Democrats on Monday, the administration’s first definitive statements about its response to last month’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook ... MORERobert Anderson: Gun Control And Political Correctness
Gun rights are not about hunting. Silence rarely conveys knowledge, especially when it’s the result of intimidation. There are moments when it’s prudent to remain silent, but hardly when you’re in the midst of a gun ownership debate. The political class, and its anti-gun proponents, are today engaged in a massive legal assault on ... MOREGary Becker: Have We Lost The War On Drugs?
Monetary costs and human costs are too high. President Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs" in 1971. The expectation then was that drug trafficking in the United States could be greatly reduced in a short time through federal policing—and yet the war on drugs continues to this day. The cost has been large in terms of lives, money and the ... MOREMichael Barone: Is The Entitlement Era Winding Down?
Are we on the threshold of a new period in U.S. history. It’s often good fun and sometimes revealing to divide American history into distinct periods of uniform length. In working on my forthcoming book on American migrations, internal and immigrant, it occurred to me that you could do this using the American-sounding interval of 76 years, ... MOREVeronique de Rugy: Get States Off The Federal Dole
Stop the growth of government. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy and the havoc it wrought on New
York, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said
they would ask the federal government to cover at least 90
percent—and perhaps all—of the cleanup and recovery costs. New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) asked the same for the Garden State. ... MORE
Sheldon Richman: Against Government Debt
What Thomas Jefferson's favorite economist would say. The last time the debt-ceiling controversy arose, it occurred to
me that if the raising the "ceiling" is a mere formality—if in fact
the sky's the limit to government borrowing—it's no ceiling at all.
Hence, I dubbed this charade the "debt sky." Those who favor automatic increases in the "limit"—or no limit ... MOREKinsley Guy: Time To Re-Think Our War On Drugs
Rampant crime caused by drug war, not drugs. Now that Colorado and Washington have legalized recreational use of marijuana, it's time for Floridians to start talking seriously about doing the same. Legalization won't come overnight. A recent Quinnipiac University
poll found only 42 percent of Florida voters think recreational ... MOREObama Says Gun Control For Thee; A Virtual Army For Me!
Obama gives self Secret Service protection for life. President Obama signed a law today granting lifetime Secret Service protection to former presidents and their wives. As it stands now, the measure affects only two presidents -- Obama and predecessor George W. Bush. The bill approved by Congress reversed a 1994 law that had ended Secret ... MOREAugusta Chronicle: The Moral Face Of Capitalism
Preserving America. Conservatives are only starting to feel their way around the wilderness. Even in a horrible economy, and facing an administration beleaguered by scandals on the Mexican border, in Libya and in crony “green energy” failures that cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, the conservative message was rejected at the polls in ... MOREJoel F. Wade: Phony Vs. Earned Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is a result, not a vehicle. A study by Jean Twenge of San Diego State University, published in the current issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science, is getting a lot of news this week. Twenge found that college kids today are more likely to call themselves gifted and driven to succeed, while their test scores and hours ... MORE
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