More pain for patients helps fight drug war. The DEA for nearly a decade has pushed for tighter restrictions on Vicodin, the nation's most widely prescribed drug. The chronic abuse of such painkillers, and devastating toll associated with this abuse, has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. The agency could get its wish ... MORE
Not what the Founders had in mind. One of the least remarked upon aspects of President Obama’s inaugural
speech was his attempt to co-opt the Founding Fathers’ Declaration of
Independence to bolster his liberal-left agenda. Sure, the president quoted one of the most important sentences in
world history: “We hold these truths to be self- ... MORE
Economic freedom declines again under Obama. Economic freedom has declined under the Obama administration, and America’s rank has repeatedly fallen on the Index of Economic Freedom and other rankings issued by think-tanks and research foundations. (The Heritage Foundation just released
the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom.) In their ... MORE
Golden State residents to lose more gold. California has been a leader in Renewable Energy
production, in part due to federal and state level policies that
provide incentives for producers of renewable power. However, a new report found that California’s Energy policies will raise state power rates and associated costs by nearly 33 percent. ... MORE
by John Whitehead. “I would say there is a school-to-prison pipeline, but there is also a prison-to-school pipeline. [The use of security hardware (cameras, metal detectors and retina detectors) and the practice of treating students as suspects are strategies of the criminal justice system, and they have been flowing into the schools.] ... MORE
A great achievement for women's rights. That may be a difficult question from a societal standpoint, but the answer is straightforward, according to a legal analysis. On Thursday, the Pentagon will lift its ban on women in combat. Now that the Pentagon is lifting its ban on women in combat, does this mean that women could potentially be drafted ... MORE
To begin by banning 150 types of rifles and handguns. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) will introduce a bill banning assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips on Thursday. Feinstein’s bill will expand the criteria for classifying military-style assault weapons from a 1994 law, which lapsed a decade later. Her new measure will ban the sale of about ... MORE
by Veronique de Rugy. This is not from NRO, the Cato Institute, or Reason: Spending on entitlement programs was about $500 billion per year in 1972 in today’s dollars. If it had increased at the same rate as the gross domestic product, it would now be about $1.4 trillion. Instead, it is now about $2.9 trillion per year. What this means is that there has ... MORE
A need to switch the national conversation. Whatever your views on whether or not there should be controls on guns, the anti-gun control movement needs discussion, because it is extreme. For instance, Monday morning on CNN, the news at 10a.m. ET opened with the issue of gun control and was of course unrelievedly slanted to the anti-gun ... MORE
Thanks, California! Thanks for your monstrous spending and absurd regulatory overreach! America needs you. We need Connecticut and Illinois, too! We need you the way we needed the Soviet Union, as models of failure, to warn us what happens if we believe those who say, "Government can." Moving to California was once the dream for many Americans. ... MORE