by Harriet Arkell. Chronic healthy eating violator apprehended by authorities. A six-year-old boy who went to school with a bag of Mini Cheddars in his packed lunch has been suspended for four days after teachers said it contravened its healthy eating policy. Riley Pearson, from Colnbrook, near Slough, was excluded from Colnbrook C of E ... MORESix Year Old Suspended For Mini Cheddars In Lunchbox
by Harriet Arkell. Chronic healthy eating violator apprehended by authorities. A six-year-old boy who went to school with a bag of Mini Cheddars in his packed lunch has been suspended for four days after teachers said it contravened its healthy eating policy. Riley Pearson, from Colnbrook, near Slough, was excluded from Colnbrook C of E ... MORESteve Chapman: Our Wasted Effort In Afghanistan
What the world's only superpower cannot fix. The United States government and the Taliban don't agree on much, but they have found one point of convergence: Both think someone needs to get a hose and put out the flames engulfing Hamid Karzai's pants. The Afghan president has often criticized the Americans for carrying out ... MOREHate Speech: A Pretense For The New Inquisition
by Craig Parshall. An effective tool to suppress free thought. Recently, 12 members of the House of Representatives signed on to H.R. 3878, a bill that would launch an investigation into any "role" that might be played by radio, television, and the Internet to supposedly "encourage" the commission of hate crimes. I have been ... MORECalifornia To Start Collecting Signatures To Legalize Pot
by Ashley Bailey. Supporters of legalizing marijuana in California have been given the
green light to start collecting signatures for a November ballot
measure. If passed, the Marijuana Control, Legalization and Revenue Act for California
would legalize recreational pot use for adults 21 and over. It would
also strengthen existing ... MOREObama Wrongly Denies He Has Power To Reclassify Pot
He should read the Controlled Substances Act. by Jacob Sullum. In an
interview with CNN's Jake Tapper that aired last night,
President Obama tried to dodge responsibility for eliminating the
contradiction between his
recent comments about marijuana and its classification as a
Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act: ... MOREJacob Kornblush: Blazio's New Ploy To Fleece Citizens
NYC speeding cameras gain revenue bonanza. The profitability of the police state. Nearly a thousand drivers have been ticketed by the city’s speed cameras since Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” traffic initiative took effect two weeks ago. The Department of Transportation tells NY1 it has already issued 900 speeding violations since ... MORE
Baylen Linnekin: This Farm Bill Stinks
A lousy new Farm Bill is about to become law. CattlePublic DomainLike a phoenix made of pork, the Farm Bill has risen from the ashes. And for opponents of farm subsidies and wasteful government spending, that’s bad news. The measure, which had languished for two years in Congress, passed in the House this week. The Senate is ... MOREIs Crazed Super Bowl Security a Taste of America To Come?
by J. D. Tuccille. Think of a TSA checkpoint that goes on, forever. In the run-up to Super Bowl XLVIII (just be
happy they don't use Egyptian numerals), the New York City Police
Department is deploying an "amazing
arsenal of security initiatives," including
200 "temporary" surveillance cameras to ensure that dirty deeds
remain undone at the big ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: A Sorry State Of The Union
What if the state of the union is a mess? What if the government spies on all of us all of the time and recognizes no limits to its spying? What if its appetite for acquiring personal knowledge about all Americans is insatiable? What if the government uses the microchips in our cellphones to follow us and listen to us as we move about? ... MOREUsing Pot Legalization To Strip Citizens Of Gun Rights
L.J. Devon on a new anti-gun brainstorm. Lawmakers from the state of Illinois have proposed new medical marijuana rules that coerce patients to surrender their Second Amendment right in the application process. The new medical marijuana "legalization" bill requires Illinois citizens to undergo a background check, be fingerprinted and ... MOREJacob Sullum: Pot Prohibitionists Can't Handle the Truth
Lying to kids doesn't send the right message. Prohibitionists were outraged by President Obama's recent observation that marijuana is safer than alcohol—not because it is not true but because it contradicts the central myth underlying public support for the war on drugs. According to that myth, certain psychoactive substances are ... MORE
Obama’s SOTU Brings Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged to Life
by George Rasley. President Obama’s State of the Union address skillfully glossed over just what a sorry state the Union is in these days. Obama’s address, full of deceit and the obfuscation of any facts at odds with his hard-left secular agenda, stands out in its repetition of the threat to act without Congress as perhaps the most anti-democratic ... MORE
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