Americans re-elected this recession. When millions of voters went to the polls in November to narrowly re-elect Barack Obama, the economy was rapidly shrinking toward recessionary levels. In the last three months of 2012, the gross domestic product — the
measurement of everything America produces — fell to an annualized rate
of 0.1 percent, the ... MOREDonald Lambro: Economy Progresses Downward
Americans re-elected this recession. When millions of voters went to the polls in November to narrowly re-elect Barack Obama, the economy was rapidly shrinking toward recessionary levels. In the last three months of 2012, the gross domestic product — the
measurement of everything America produces — fell to an annualized rate
of 0.1 percent, the ... MORETibor Machan: On Rape And Pragmatism
Principles in the age of the pragmatist. Something not often noted in the discussion of rape across the globe is that in an age that prizes pragmatism
as opposed to firm principles of conduct, even rape can be excused
based on the expected benefit to the rapist versus injury to the victim. If one doesn't care about the basic principle of consent, ... MOREJohn Harvey: Trusting Your Own Government (Or Not)
The masters who pose as servants. Earlier this month, Geraldo Rivera asked a caller: "How could you not trust your own government?" Putting aside big and little episodes of untrustworthy government in the history of this country like the Trail of Tears, the internment of Americans of Japanese descent, Kent State, Waco, ... MOREWalker Baird: It Is Time To Reclassify Marijuana
Introducing common sense to American drug policy. Recent voting in Colorado and Washington exposes a striking discrepancy in the national legal status of marijuana. Under current federal law,
marijuana is classified as a Schedule I Controlled Substance, which
places it in the same category as heroin, peyote, LSD and Ecstasy. To be
qualified as a ... MOREJillian Kay Melchoir: The EPA Vs. Reality
Push toward cellulosic biofuel is out of control. The Environmental Protection Agency has been demanding the impossible of refiners and then penalizing them when they fail to comply. A new ruling from a federal appeals court stops this shakedown. For the past few years, the EPA has required refiners to purchase vast quantities of cellulosic biofuel, ... MOREDavid Harsanyi: Stagnation, The New Normal
The only growth is in Obama's popularity. So, U.S. consumer confidence unexpectedly plunged in January to its lowest level in more than a year. The U.S. economy unexpectedly posted a contraction in the fourth quarter of 2012 -- for the first time since the recession -- "defying" expectations that economic growth is in our future. If the ... MOREJohn Stossel: Obama Is Not King
A dangerous agenda putting the country at risk. Watching President Obama’s inaugural, I was confused. It looked like a new king was being crowned. Thousands cheered, like subjects worshipping nobility. At a time when America faces unsustainable debt and terrible economic troubles, why such pomp? Maybe it’s because so many people tell ... MOREBarry Farber: Females At The Flanks?
Tim Kelly: Who Will Protect Us From Our Protectors
The crisis is the government power grab. It didn’t take long for the megalomaniacs and opportunists in Washington to exploit the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, as a pretext for another attempt to annul the Second Amendment and expand their power. Never one to let a good crisis go to waste, President Obama signed a series of executive ... MORERob Kampia: Ending Marijuana Prohibition In 2013
Possible accomplishments this year. Unless people have been hiding under a rock this past couple months, they know that more than 55 percent of voters in Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana on November 6. As a result, many people have grand expectations of how we're going to get closer to ending marijuana prohibition in the ... MOREJacob Sullum: What's An Assault Weapon?
CNN, President Obama and many others don't know. Last week Sen. Dianne Feinstein
introduced a new, supposedly improved version of the federal
"assault weapon" ban that expired in 2004. But like that earlier
law, which the California Democrat also sponsored, Feinstein's
bill prohibits the manufacture and sale of guns based on
characteristics that ... MOREAP: GDP Shows Harsh Drop From Government Estimate
The continuing saga of hope and change. Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — decreased at an annual rate of 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 (that is, from the third quarter to the fourth quarter), according to the “advance” estimate ... MORE
Dustin Hurst: Bipartisan Opposition To Domestic Drones
Parties join forces to curtail surveillance society. Drones are wildly popular on the battlefield. Now they can claim victory elsewhere. The use of drones within U.S. borders—in car chases, to monitor wildfires, or for simple surveillance—is uniting political parties and people more often at odds. Their concern: the widespread use of drones ... MOREThomas Sowell: Whose Welfare?
Theories about culture trump welfare of humans. If there is ever a contest for the law with the most grossly misleading title, the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 should be a prime candidate, because the last thing this Act protects is the welfare of Indian children. The theory behind the Indian Child Welfare Act is that an American Indian ... MOREWilliam A. Levinson: Never Let A Dead Child Go To Waste
Let's act quick, before their heads clear. Barack Obama, Dianne Feinstein, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo, and their cohorts followed Rahm Emanuel's advice to "never let a good crisis go to waste" when they used the Sandy Hook shooting to renew their assault on the Bill of Rights. Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell added, in effect, that ... MOREA Former Drug Czar Advisor Compares Pot To Child Porn
by Matthew Feeney. If you thought former drug czar
advisor Paul Chabot couldn’t top his claim that alcohol prohibition
“actually
worked” you would be wrong. Chabot recently appeared on
HuffPost Live and compared marijuana to child pornography. From the
Huffington Post: When asked by HuffPost Washington Bureau Chief Ryan Grim ... MORE
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