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 ... 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 ... MOREJoe Biden's Political Posturing On Gun Control Measures
by J.D. Tuccille. We'll have to wait until
Tuesday to see the details of Vice President Joe Biden's
2016 presidential
campaign platform gun control recommendations, but already
we know that it's likely be heavy on pandering to the gun-averse
political base, and light on anything that might leave the
administration dangling in the breeze when it ... MORE
EBT Abuse: Government's Cash-For-Drunkards Program
by Michelle Malkin. From New York to New Mexico and across the dependent plains, welfare recipients are getting sauced on the public dime. Drunk, besotted, bombed. But while politicians pay lip service to cutting government waste, fraud and abuse, they're doing very little in practice to stop the EBT party excesses. Where's the compassion for taxpayers? ... MORESales Of Guns Soar In U.S. As Tougher Laws Threatened
Citizens react as government plots against them. As Washington focuses on what Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will propose next week to curb gun violence, gun and ammunition sales are spiking in the rest of the country as people rush to expand their arsenals in advance of any restrictions that might be imposed. People were crowded five deep ... MOREThe Need For Semi-Automatic "Assault" Weapons
By Katie Pavlich. By now, we’ve heard the argument about semi- automatic "assault" rifles: nobody needs one. We’ve heard the only reason why someone would obtain this kind of weapon is so they can kill people, which is far from the truth. We’ve also heard the argument from both the Left and the Right that a pistol is how someone protects their ... MOREGovernment Unable To Define 'Homeland Security'
David Kravets on government's blank check for tyranny. What is “homeland security?” The federal bureaucracy doesn’t know,
and that’s problematic for a government that has been fighting the
ill-defined “war on terror” following 9/11, according to a new report
from the Congressional Research Service. In short, “homeland security” is whatever the ... MORE
Nit Ghei: Higher Wages, Lower Employment
Misguided government makes matters worse. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday laid out a wide-ranging agenda for the year. The first-term Democrat wants gun control, casinos and higher pay for teachers. Perhaps his most economically perilous proposal is an insistence on raising the state’s minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $8.75. ... MORE
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