"An armed society is a polite society" - R A Heinlein. The Pew Research Center reported last week
that the murder rate was cut nearly in half from 7 per 100,000 in 1993
to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2013. Over the same period, overall gun deaths
(including accidents and suicides) have fallen by one-third from 15.2 to
10.6 per 100,000. In spite of this, Pew ... MOREPew Research: Homicide Rates Have Been Cut In Half Over The Past 20 Years (While New Gun Ownership Soared)
"An armed society is a polite society" - R A Heinlein. The Pew Research Center reported last week
that the murder rate was cut nearly in half from 7 per 100,000 in 1993
to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2013. Over the same period, overall gun deaths
(including accidents and suicides) have fallen by one-third from 15.2 to
10.6 per 100,000. In spite of this, Pew ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: The Parties Turn It Up To 11
GOP moving rightward, while Dems move leftward. "Look, I imagine that there's theoretically a chance that [we] all went from being radical extremist crazies to Washington sellouts in 12 hours," South Carolina Republican Rep. Mick Mulvaney said the other day. "But maybe a more likely narrative is that we really think that this is a good ... MORESouth Park Shows How To Defeat Social-Justice Warriors
by Stephen L. Miller. A soul-crushing society, led by a click-happy media and finger-wagging president, that has demanded our country and culture change everything from its football-team names to its campus speech policies, has gone largely unchecked for the past seven or so years. Today, the shirt a scientist wears is more important than his ... MOREPrescribing Patients The Drugs They Want Is Not Murder
by Jacob Sullum. Last Friday a California jury convicted
Hsiu-Ying Tseng, a Rowland Heights physician, of second-degree murder
in connection with the deaths of three patients who overdosed on drugs
she prescribed. Local prosecutors say this is the first time a doctor
has been convicted of murder in the United States based on allegations
of ... MOREGeorge Will: Supreme Court Picks Will Be Critical
Slowing the rate of tyranny. A supremely important presidential issue is being generally neglected because Democrats have nothing interesting to say about it and Republicans differ among themselves about it. Four Supreme Court justices are into the fourth quarters of their potential centuries — Stephen Breyer (77), Antonin Scalia (79), ... MOREU.N. Unveils New Scheme To Rip Off America
by Leo Hohmann. An international redistribution of wealth plan. At the upcoming United Nations Climate Summit in Paris, participating nations have prepared a treaty that would create an “International Tribunal of Climate Justice” giving Third World countries the power to haul the U.S. into a global court with enforcement powers. Congress would be ... MOREAfter Budget Deal, A Sense Of Futility Grows In Congress
by Nick Timiraos. Cowards kicking the can. Congress ended an 11th-hour showdown when the Senate passed a bill Friday that raises the debt ceiling for the last time during Barack Obama’s presidency. Many policy makers wish it could be the last such standoff in a long-running drama over the nation’s borrowing limit. The
brinkmanship has grown so ... MORE
A Prosecutor's Guide To Not Prosecuting A Killer Cop
'Public servants' protect each other. Lt. Mark Tiller did not violate the law when he fired two shots into a
moving vehicle in July, killing Zachary Hammond as the unarmed
19-year-old attempted to flee, a state prosecutor announced Tuesday. Tiller, a Seneca, South Carolina, officer, has maintained that he
fired his gun because he feared for his ... MOREEminent Domain: A Million Homes Taken Since Kelo
by Mark A. Calabria, CATO. It has been just over a decade since the Supreme Court decided in Kelo v. New London that local governments can take private property by eminent domain under a very broad reading of “public use”. Cato held an event earlier this year to examine the legal impact of Kelo, featuring remarks from George Mason Law ... MOREWhat If Hillary Clinton Is Too Big To Jail?
by Anita Kumar and Greg Gordon. Hillary Clinton appears to have overcome an investigation of her role in the 2012 deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, but she still faces a months-long FBI inquiry into the handling of sensitive information while she was secretary of state. The FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, which opened its review ... MOREHow To Steal $75,000 From The Poor In One Day’s Work
by Jeffrey A. Tucker. A tax-collecting scheme disguised as justice. The new liberality concerning marijuana possession in the United States is long overdue, but let’s not exaggerate how much progress we’ve made. Users might not be ending up in jail as frequently as they did 10 years ago. But cops, judges, and courts still exercise arbitrary power to ruin ... MORECharles P. Pierce: The Senate's New 'Give The NSA All Your Private Information' Bill Would Make George Orwell Blush
Scare tactics push big government agenda forward. While nobody was watching, the Senate a couple of days ago passed
something called the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), which
passed at least partly because if you say "Cyber warfare,
boogedy-boogedy!" around nervous legislators these days, they'll pass a
bill agreeing to ... MOREHow Climate Change Activism Harms Third World Countries
by Shikha Dalmia. To avert a tragedy, they'll cause one. You wouldn't know it from the happy spin emanating from the Oval Office, but a Third World revolt in Bonn, Germany, this week almost derailed the Paris climate change negotiations in November. Although peace has been restored for now, it only happened by papering over this ... MOREBoehner Hands Ryan A Defeat On The Way Out The Door
by David Harsanyi. Grass-roots conservatives have many unrealistic expectations and political objectives. And then sometimes they have a good point. The new budget deal arranged by John Boehner and Democrats— approving
$50 billion of additional spending in 2016 and $30 billion in 2017—will
be split between domestic discretionary ... MORE
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