Promoting fully informed juries. State Rep. Charles Gregory (R-Kennesaw) has filed a bill that would ensure jurors are informed of their rights, including that of jury nullification, a procedure Marietta attorney Tom Cauthorn believes is dangerous. Gregory describes jury nullification in a criminal trial as what happens when a jury effectively nullifies ... MOREJon Gillooly: Georgia Rep Files Bill On Jury Nullification
Promoting fully informed juries. State Rep. Charles Gregory (R-Kennesaw) has filed a bill that would ensure jurors are informed of their rights, including that of jury nullification, a procedure Marietta attorney Tom Cauthorn believes is dangerous. Gregory describes jury nullification in a criminal trial as what happens when a jury effectively nullifies ... MOREBetsi Fores: New Study Refutes Minimum Wage Benefits
Minimum wage creates more, not less, poverty. A new study concludes that increasing the minimum wage will lead to fewer jobs rather than less poverty. “The disconnect between the empirical evidence and the claims of wage
hike advocates continues to grow,” said Michael Saltsman, research
director at the Employment Policies Institute, which ... MORECop Tickets Man For Pointing Out He's In The Wrong
Funny video of a Barney Fife throwing his weight around. A Venice cop on video makes up a "crime" to ticket a biker for because he made him look like a fool by pointing out he was in the wrong. A crowd gathers and joins in the fun, everyone agreeing the cop is insane. As a result of the man "arguing" with him, the criminal in uniform insists on ... MORERand Paul's Nullification Proposal Emerges In Gun Debate
By Carl Wicklander. With a spate of shootings in recent months, there are calls for
tighter gun control and President Obama has political capital to spend. Getting much of what he wanted with the fiscal cliff, the president has proposed twenty-three executive orders, a practice he criticized while a U.S. Senator, to address gun policy in the event Congress does not ... MOREFOX: 83% Think Government Spending Is Out Of Control
Seventeen percent are in denial. More than eight in ten American voters (83 percent) think government spending is out of control, according to a Fox News poll released Friday. That’s up from 78 percent who said so in 2010 and 62 percent in 2009. Some 11 percent think spending is being managed carefully. The poll also finds almost all voters rate ... MOREYou Can't Trust Obama On Pot, Why Trust Him With Guns?
By Debra Sanders. My Sunday column
tells the story of Matthew Davies, 34, a medical marijuana dispensary
owner, who is facing a minimum of seven years in prison because he
believed that President Obama would direct his Justice Department not to
prosecute people who use or distribute medical marijuana in states
where it is legal. Sending ... MORE
Baylen Linnekin: The FDA's Pathetic Food Safety Proposal
Costly rules that won't make safer. Earlier this month the FDA released drafts of two highly
anticipated food-safety rules. The agency has billed the proposed
regulations as key tools for implementing the Food Safety
Modernization Act (FSMA), the biggest FDA food-safety update in
more than seven decades, which President Obama signed. ... MORE65% See Gun Rights As Protection Against Tyranny
from Rasmussen: Two-out-of-three Americans recognize that their constitutional right to own a gun was intended to ensure their freedom. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 65
percent of American Adults think the purpose of the Second Amendment is
to make sure that people are able to protect ... MORECalifornia, Unsaved, Speeds Toward A Wall Of Debt
by Steven Greenhut. A cursory glance at Governor Jerry Brown’s new budget could make you believe that California’s days
of fiscal gloom are over as he champions a balanced budget and
newfound “fiscal restraint.” California had been floating in debt. Then Brown persuaded
voters in November to increase sales and income taxes. ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Guns And The Government
Government is determined to do something. If you have listened to President Obama and Vice President Biden talk about guns in the past month, you have heard them express a decided commitment to use the powers of the federal government to maintain safety in the United States. You also have heard congressional voices from politicians in ... MOREJerry Bowyer: Republican Cave Worse Than Fiscal Cliff
GOP jellyfish offer no protection for liberty. The fiscal cliff debacle showed conclusively that the GOP establishment is a completely ineffective guardian of our liberties against President Obama and the Washington ruling class. Forget fantasies about reversing the growth of the state, let alone stopping such growth; Boehner’s boys can’t even ... MOREThey're Coming To Take Our Guns Away, Ha-haa!
by Chris Stafko. You may recall the 1966 cult-classic by Napoleon XIV titled, "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa." The lyrics of that song describe an individual who is out of his mind and who is being taken "to the funny farm" and to "the loony bin" so he can be attended to by "those nice young men in their clean white coats." The subject of the song ... MOREPatrick J. Michaels: Global Warming Apocalypse Cancelled
Inconvenient truth: no 21st century rise in temperature. My greener friends are increasingly troubled by the lack of a rise in recent global surface temperatures. Using monthly data measured as the departure from long-term averages, there’s been no significant warming trend since the fall of 1996. In other words, we are now in our 17th ... MOREHow A Cop Used A State Database To Steal Pain Pills
by Michael McFall. A former Vernal police detective now
faces criminal charges stemming from his alleged theft of a couple’s
pain pills, a month after the couple filed a complaint against him in
federal court. Ben Marland Murray, 38, was charged Friday in
8th District Court with unlawful use of the controlled substance
database and possession of a controlled ... MOREVictor Davis Hanson: The War Between The Amendments
Parity to an all-powerful, centralized government. The horrific Newtown, Conn., mass shooting has unleashed a frenzy to
pass new gun-control legislation. But the war over restricting firearms
is not just between liberals and conservatives; it also pits the first
two amendments to the U.S. Constitution against each other. Apparently, in the sequential ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: The Threat Posed By Gun Magazine Limits
Another measure that could endanger victims. A limit on magazine capacity is emerging as a leading contender
for the something that supposedly must be done in response to last
month's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,
Connecticut. A ban on "large-capacity ammunition feeding devices"
is one of the new gun ... MORE
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