Most expired drugs remain potent for decades. Thinking about going through your medicine cabinet and throwing out all your expired prescriptions? That might not be necessary, according to a UCSF-led study. Researchers analyzed eight prescription drugs with 15 active ingredients that expired between 28 and 40 years ago and found ... MORESF Gate: Most Expired Drugs Work Fine
Most expired drugs remain potent for decades. Thinking about going through your medicine cabinet and throwing out all your expired prescriptions? That might not be necessary, according to a UCSF-led study. Researchers analyzed eight prescription drugs with 15 active ingredients that expired between 28 and 40 years ago and found ... MORERoss Kaminsky: Malala Versus Sandra
What a nation of plunderers we have become. Malala Yousafzai can't speak for herself, and it remains to be
seen whether she ever will again. For the crime of going to school
-- and blogging about it -- she was shot in the head by a Taliban
assassin while in her school bus. Yousafzai, now 14, knew the risk she was taking when at the age
of 11 and ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Observations from a keen eye. Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic. Economist Edward Lazear has cut through all of Barack Obama's claims about "creating jobs" with ... MOREAP: Marijuana Backers Courting Conservatives
What happened to the clamor for 'states' rights? It's not all hippies backing November's marijuana legalization votes in Colorado, Oregon and Washington. Appealing
to Western individualism and a mistrust of federal government,
activists have lined up some prominent conservatives, from one-time
presidential hopefuls Tom Tancredo ... MOREKevin D. Williamson: The Last Radicals
Homeschoolers occupy the curriculum. There is exactly one authentically radical social movement of any real significance in the United States, and it is not Occupy, the Tea Party, or the Ron Paul faction. It is homeschoolers, who, by the simple act of instructing their children at home, pose an intellectual, moral, and political challenge to the ... MOREVIDEO: How Cops Legally Steal Innocent People's Money
Civil forfeiture provides incentive for government abuse.
Matt Cover: Obama Bailout Claim Off By $24 Billion
Obama: "got back every dime." CBO: lost $24 billion. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that “we got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system." According to the Congressional Budget Office, however, the government will lose about $24 billion on the bailout. “We got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system, but ... MORERon Paul: Keeping Up Statistical Appearances
Could the real unemployment be 22 percent? Last week, supporters of the current administration rejoiced over job
numbers released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS). For the
first time since the administration came to power, the official
unemployment number fell below 8%. Keynesian cheerleaders all claimed
the ... MOREShikha Dalmia: ObamaCare's Rationing By Another Name
About the Independent Payment Advisory Board. The stunning post-debate reversal in Mitt Romney’s fortunes may
not last through the elections. But win or lose, he’ll do the
country a big favor if he continues to expose the Independent
Payment Advisory Board—the beloved center-piece of Obamacare—for
what it is: An effort to give an ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Dagny Taggart Goes To War
The battle for freedom. Dagny Taggart is not just the entrepreneurial heroine of Ayn Rand’s magnum opus novel, Atlas Shrugged. She is the inspiration of real women everywhere who are taking up her shield and fighting her battle for freedom using the weapons of entrepreneurship, education and free speech. The media continually talks about the ... MOREWalter E Williams: Poverty Nonsense
Bad decisions can be hazardous to your economic health. Here's a recent statement frequently suggested by leftist academics, think tank researchers and policymakers: "People were not just struggling because of their personal deficiencies. There were structural factors at play. People weren't poor because they made bad decisions. They were poor ... MOREZack Fulkerson: Privacy Under Attack
TSA and police drag 4th Amendment through the mud. The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America reads: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, ... MOREMike Riggs: How Asset Forfeiture Helps Police Departments
Provides funds to buy drugs and prostitutes for cops. Former Romulus Police Chief Michael St. Andre, his wife, and five Romulus detectives pled not guilty last week to using asset forfeiture funds aquired during narcotics and prostitution investigations to buy...narcotics and prostitutes. The Detroit Free Press
reported ... MOREWilliam Sullivan: Social Justice Is A Proven Failure
... and so is Obama. There is a reason that Obama's ideological policy efforts have failed America. It is because they, like his ideology, are not American. No, I am not suggesting that he wasn't born here or that he's not an American citizen. I am stating with absolute certainty that his core ideology is predicated upon anything but liberty. And since ... MORE
The Unstoppable March Toward National Bankruptcy
by Mark Henderson. The opening line of the Beatles’ iconic “Sergeant Pepper’s” album is echoing in my thought: “It was 20 years ago today…” Well, not quite to the day, but 20 years ago I published an article titled, “$4 Trillion and Counting.” In it, I despaired at the rapid increase in the national debt from its first-ever crossing of the $1 trillion ... MORE
Business Insider: Rand's Dystopian Masterpiece
SEE ATLAS SHRUGGED II TRAILER HERE In a Leningrad University classroom in the early 1920s, as the professor drones on about orthodox Marxist theory, a young woman with an intense gaze is writing furiously in her notebook. The woman is Alisa Rosenbaum, later to be famous as Ayn Rand, and her jottings do not concern the relationship between ... MOREAndrew B. Wilson: Sleepless In St. Louis
Entrepreneur/super-mom fears an Obama victory. No one would mistake my sister Dodie -- a super-mom (sometimes tiger mom) and entrepreneur -- for a hand-wringing pessimist. Intrepid and resourceful, she always rises to the moment -- like the "unsinkable" Molly Brown in the musical about the Titanic. But now (even after the smack-down ... MORE
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