State of Pain

EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is a follow-up to The Drug War Claims Another Victim America’s prohibition regime of certain sorts of drugs has never been called for by a medical consensus. It has never been based on application of the principles of addiction...

Poisoning the Melting Pot

This past weekend brought us yet more reminders of the stark realities of radical Islam. In St. Cloud, Minnesota, eight people were stabbed by a Somali man who made references to Allah. In New York, a bomb exploded in a dumpster in Chelsea, injuring 29 people. Another...

Ignoring The Inconvenient

An American woman set a record at this year’s Olympic games. She became the first woman and the first summer Olympian to medal in six consecutive Olympics. Only one other athlete in the entire history of the Games has matched this feat (an Italian man who...

Sins of Omission

Is the New York Times biased? Is Fox News biased? If your answer is not “Obviously!” on both accounts, odds are pretty good you’re biased. Then again, who isn’t? Show me someone without bias, and I’ll show you someone who is utterly...

Subsidizing The Planet

The attached graphic crossed my browser screen today. As you can see, it’s an OMG BIG PHARMA IS EVIL graphic from the Bernie Sanders camp. It asserts that a particular drug is four times more expensive in America than it is in three nations that have socialized...