Clearing the smoke around legalization. Marijuana legalization is on the move as ballot measures to free the weed are spreading like a prairie fire across the American landscape. In November voters legalized marijuana for recreation in Alaska, Oregon and the District of Columbia. They join voters in Washington State and Colorado who legalized ... MORE
by Jacob Sullum. For years New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has
insisted that people who pay for sex and the
intermediaries who facilitate that exchange are responsible for
violence against women. Hence his February 26
column celebrating the arrests of men who were guilty of
nothing but negotiating terms with cops posing as ... MORE
by Dave Urbanski. In the space of five days the city of Memphis, Tennessee, has seen its
second fatal shooting by a homeowner against reported armed home
intruders. TheBlaze reported the
first instance which occurred Tuesday when a woman answered a knock at a
front door. When two men reportedly forced their way in — one of them ... MORE
by Marc Saggese. They go by a number of different names: DUI checkpoints, administrative roadblocks, mobile checkpoints, or as they are referred to by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, sobriety checkpoints. No matter the title, they all have the same effect: to allow the police to stop your vehicle for no articulable reason, ask ... MORE
Marijuana smokers and the right to carry guns. Two Colorado firearms instructors are planning a ballot initiative in
their state to help smash a huge violation of citizens' rights:
that marijuana smokers, according to the federal government, are
not allowed to own guns. The
1968 Gun Control Act declared in section 922(g)
that unlawful ... MORE
There's no candy coating the truth: Obamacare has had a very terrible, horrible, crappy, none-too-happy year. What it really means is that the victims of Obamacare — taxpayers, health care consumers, health care providers, employers and employees — have had a hellish, nightmarish 2014. Let's start with premiums. President Candy ... MORE
Sound familiar? Sometimes, real life can be stranger than parody. This can be particularly true when it comes to the beat we cover here at The Watch, civil liberties. With that in mind, I’ve gone out on a limb to make some predictions about what might happen on the civil liberties front in 2015. I realize that some of these prognostications may seem a ... MORE
by Patrick Howley. All of it was a lie. President Obama’s health care adviser Jonathan Gruber said that the Affordable Care Act would definitely not be affordable while he was writing the bill with the White House. As Gruber continues to withhold documents while he awaits a call-back for more testimony before the House Oversight and Government ... MORE
Government takes full advantage of 9-11. Rodney Martin, a former congressional staffer, says that former president George W. Bush and President Barack Obama have transformed the US into a police state following the 9/11 attacks. Martin made the remarks when asked about a report that showed a number of decisions made by American ... MORE
Cover for the liberal agenda. Back in the day, when hunting was the major source of food, hunters often used stalking horses as a means of sneaking up on their quarry. They would walk on the opposite side of the horse until they were close enough to place a good shot on whatever they were hunting. A stalking horse not only concealed them but ... MORE
Pearls of wisdom. Now that Barack Obama is ruling by decree, he seems more like a king than a president. Maybe it is time we change the way we address him. "Your Majesty" may be a little too much, but perhaps "Your Royal Glibness" might be appropriate. It tells us a lot about academia that the president of Smith College quickly ... MORE
2014 has been a year of anniversaries. It was the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War — a war which many at the time saw as madness, and predicted that it would be the harbinger of a Second World War a generation later. 2014 was also the 70th anniversary of the fateful landing at Normandy that marked the beginning of ... MORE
by Lenore Skenazy. Are your children safe at school? That depends on if you're worried about bullies or administrators. Here are 10 of the most infamous "zero tolerance" punishments handed down to kids—and even some adults—this year. 1. Student, 13, shares lunch, gets
detention A 13-year-old boy at Weaverville Elementary School in ... MORE
by Pedro Gonzales. Every committed revolutionary needs a plan. Karl Marx had one, and so did Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. Add to that group socialist senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont, who is considering running for president (as a Democrat) and has already announced a 12-point plan at the Huffington Post. He writes: As Vermont's ... MORE