Washington State Prepares Gun Control Nullification Bill
by Mikael Thalen. As the call for more gun control continues, governors, lawmakers, sheriffs, and citizens across the country are taking a stand. After the tragic Sandy Hook
shooting, gun control advocates immediately jumped on the opportunity
to dust off old gun control legislation, specifically advocating for a
ban on "assault weapons." ... MOREJacob Sullum: Drug Dealing And Legal Stealing
Feds try to take motel because guest broke the law. At the Cosmopolitan, a luxury hotel and casino in Las Vegas, “just the right amount of wrong” is the naughty fun you get for $200 a night. At the $57-a-night Motel Caswell in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, just the right amount of wrong is what the federal government says it needs to ... MOREVIDEO: Choose Your Own Crime Stats
EYE-OPENER: Did you know the U.S. crime rate has steadily fallen since 1992?
Walter E Williams: Official Lies
Let's expose presidential prevarication. Earlier this year, President Barack Obama warned that Social Security checks will be delayed if Congress fails to increase the government's borrowing authority by raising the debt ceiling. However, there's an issue with this warning. According to the 2012 Social Security trustees report, assets in Social Security's ... MORELA Times Editorial: The DEA's Marijuana Mistake
Creating a ridiculous circle of denials. For a muscular agency that combats vicious drug criminals, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration acts like a terrified and obstinate toddler when it comes to basic science. For years, the DEA and the National Institute for Drug Abuse have made it all but impossible to develop a robust body of research on the medical ... MOREJim Cardoza: Handing Gangs The Gun Concession
Time for us to check our premises. The tragedy of the American drug war is not just that it has been a failure. It has been an act of national self-destruction. It is one thing that it failed to diminish the availability of street drugs. It is quite another that it has provided vicious gangs with a lucrative black market funding mechanism while locking up scores ... MORE
Government Targets Vicodin In War Against Painkillers
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 ... MOREVIDEO: Political Correctness And Common Sense
Excerpts from a speech by Charlton Heston at Brandeis University.
Larry Kudlow: Obama's Declaration Of Collectivism
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- ... MORELouis Woodhill: Time To Bury The GOP And Start Over
Death to clueless conservatism! In his January 18 article, “Go for the Throat!”, John Dickerson, Slate’s chief political correspondent, called on President Obama to “declare war” on the Republican Party. Calm down, John. There is no need for Obama to get (politically)
violent. At the national level, the Republican Party is near death
anyway. ... MORE
Hans Bader: Government Control Is Bad For Your Health
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 ... MOREA Fisher: 6 Unbelievably Dumb Congressional Hearings
Sex, violence and satan. In the wake of last December's school shooting, Sen. Jay Rockefeller
(D-West Virginia) has proposed
yet another congressional study on violent video games (he's
joined in his effort by
Nebraska Republican Sen. Mike Johanns). Such studies are
typically accompanied by hearings where members of the
World's Greatest ... MORE
Costly State Energy Policies To Raise California Power 33%
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. ... MOREFighting The Total Surveillance State In Our Schools
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.] ... MOREAnna Mulrine: Will Women Have To Register For Draft? Yes
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 ... MORELook Who's Mocking Fascist Fear-Mongering Now
by A. Barton Hinkle. One of the arguments we’re hearing in the current debate about gun control is what might be called the anti-anti-tyranny argument. Coming from liberals, it’s a little rich. Some gun-rights supporters say the Second Amendment’s purpose is not merely to protect the right to hunt or defend yourself, but to guard against ... MORE
THE HILL: Feinstein Launches Government Gun Grab
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
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