L.A. Times
Reporting from Mexico City — Could Mexican cities become Latin Amsterdams, flooded by drug users seeking penalty-free tokes and toots?
That is the fear, if somewhat overstated, of some Mexican officials, especially in northern border states that serve as a mecca for underage drinkers from the United States.
The anxiety stems from the Mexican legislature’s [...]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/bryan10.html
Anyone who attended those giant child-processing centers the state insists on calling “schools” will recognize the scene:
You walk into [...]

Liberty For All
Doctors told Steve Kubby that he had only six months to live. That was more than thirty years ago! What has Mr. Kubby done with the extra time physicians told him he didn’t have?  Well, besides becoming an icon in the medical marijuana movement and running for the LP presidential nomination in 2008, [...]

I came across a news article from Fox News today about a woman that died from heat exhaustion in an outdoor holding cell in Phoenix, Arizona. After undergoing an evaluation, a 48 year old female inmate was put into an outdoor holding cell in 108 degree heat, with no shade for four hours while she [...]

Four years after his conviction was quashed, six years after he was released from prison on licence and a full 31 years since he was first arrested for a brutal crime which it is now abundantly clear he did not commit, Paul Blackburn has barely even begun to impose some sort of order on his [...]

Life grows more interesting by the day for officials of the West Bend (Wis.) Community Memorial Library. After four months of grappling with an evolving challenge to young-adult materials deemed sexually explicit by area residents Ginny and Jim Maziarka, library trustees voted 9–0 June 2 to maintain the young-adult collection as is “without removing, relocating, [...]

(CNN) — We spend nearly as much on defense as the rest of the world combined. We spend more on health care than anybody else in the world. And we have a bigger national debt than anybody else in the world.
Some experts are warning that if we keep spending like drunken sailors, we may lose [...]

(CNN) — Surveillance video shows a Passaic, New Jersey, police officer beating a 49-year-old man standing idly on a street corner.
Surveillance tape from Lawrence’s Grill and Bar in Passaic on May 29 shows a police car pull up to Ronnie Holloway, who is standing still on the curb outside the restaurant. After a few moments [...]

I felt the need to repost this article that was sent to me by a friend.
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What is more Christian than discrimination? I wonder. It seems like every day I hear about someone being fired from their jobs, or losing a big promotion simply because their bosses discover that they do not believe in God. I [...]

This is an essay that I wrote for a scholarship I am attempting to win. The subject was, Describe a perfect world.
Author: Stephen Carter
Many people have their own vision of a perfect world, and many would believe that such a world in some way would greatly enhance their own lives, with less regard being made [...]