It is said that almost everyone in the marijuana law reform movement has a seminal moment they can point to when their public activism started. My moment was in the fall, six years ago.
I’m a past president of our local Kiwanis Club. I’ve been a member for years; we meet for breakfast at 6:30am, every [...]

Texas schoolchildren should know how God and religion greatly influenced the country’s Founding Fathers more than 230 years ago, say some of the experts reviewing the state’s social studies curriculum.
It is a viewpoint that troubles others who worry that a controlling majority of conservatives on the State Board of Education may go too far in [...]

Jennifer Pelham* kicks off her black Marc Jacobs pumps, slips out of her trim Theory blazer, and collapses on the couch. The 29-year-old corporate attorney for one of Manhattan’s top law firms has just clocked another 12-hour day, and though it’s over, she’s having a hard time shaking off her frustrations. (A partner had eviscerated [...]

Why do virtually all members of Congress get reelected despite the public’s disapproval of the legislative body they serve in? One answer frequently heard in Washington, D.C. is that “people hate Congress but love their own congressman.”
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 23% of voters really accept this answer. Those 23% [...]

Americans were fed the story of Timothy McVeigh’s trial and execution as a simple, unquestionable narrative: he was guilty, he was evil, and he acted largely alone. Gore Vidal’s 1998 Vanity Fair essay on the erosion of the U.S. Bill of Rights caused McVeigh to begin a three-year correspondence with Vidal, prompting an examination of [...]

Nearly 30 years of tense relations between the U.S. and Iran came to a dramatic end this March when Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed that his country’s suspected nuclear program was in fact a covert operation to build “Ali Baba and the 40 Loops”—the largest, most thrilling roller coaster in the Middle East.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/irans_nuclear_operation_revealed
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In an attempt to cut the franchise’s losses and move forward in a positive direction, the Dallas Cowboys severed ties with controversial owner Jerry Jones Monday, ending their tumultuous 20-year relationship with the divisive figure.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/dallas_cowboys_release_jerry_jones
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With more than 1.8 million civilian employees, the Federal Government, excluding the Postal Service is the Nation’s largest employer.
About 9 out of 10 Federal employees work outside the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
Job growth generated by increased homeland security needs will be offset by projected declines in other Federal sectors; however, many job openings should arise [...]

Eliminating defensive medicine could save upwards of $200 billion in health-care costs annually, according to estimates by the American Medical Association and others. The cure is a reliable medical malpractice system that patients, doctors and the general public can trust.
But this is the one reform Washington will not seriously consider. That’s because the trial lawyers, [...]

Let’s talk about pain.
Dull, sharp, aching, gnawing, stinging, nagging, throbbing, pounding, shooting, stabbing, radiating, searing, tearing, pinching, suffocating, splitting, crushing, wrenching, I-can’t-stand-it-anymore agonizing pain.
The fact is pain is often undertreated in this country and many people suffer unnecessarily, say University of Texas at Austin researchers.
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The PATRIOT Act contained a number of tools that expanded the power of federal law enforcement officials. One of these, the “sneak and peak” warrant, allows investigators to break into the home or business of the warrant’s target and delay notification of the intrusion until 30 days after the warrant’s expiration. This capability was sold [...]

A grandmother in Indiana has been arrested for purchasing cold medicine. We can all sleep more safely now that this hardened criminal has been taught a lesson. The Terre Haute News reports:
When Sally Harpold bought cold medicine for her family back in March, she never dreamed that four months later she would end up in handcuffs.
Now, [...]

In the years preceding the 2008-2009 Depression both Peter Schiff and Ben Bernanke were making statements about the housing bubble and the status of the economy. Let’s compare them and see who was right and who was… very wrong.

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Government has been mismanaging medical care for more than 45 years; for every problem it has created it has responded by exponentially expanding the role of government.
Points to consider:
1.)  No one has a right to medical care.  If one assumes such a right, it endorses the notion that some individuals have a right to someone [...]

The group Downsize California Now is preparing a ballot initiative for a two-state solution that they hope to have on the ballot in 2010. According to their plans, 13 counties on the coast, ranging from Los Angeles to Marin, just north of San Francisco, would be split off and be named Coastal California, West California [...]