Decriminalizing hard drugs — not legalizing them but simply declining to prosecute users and retail-level sellers — has produced a decline in the amount of drug use and a fantastic easing of financial, ethical, and legal pressures on the Portuguese… Continue Reading
If, like me, you are more than a little offended by the spectacle of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the author of some of the most virulent anti-Jewish speeches since Adolf Hitler, being permitted to address a United Nations conference on racism, then… Continue Reading
Because she is pro-choice and represents an Administration that has a pro-choice President, the Vatican is not recognizing the appointment of the United States of America’s chosen ambassador to the Holy See, Caroline Kennedy. Now, any sovereign nation is free… Continue Reading
A Spanish court issued indictments today for six Americans, some of whose names will sound familiar to all of you: Douglas Feith, John Yoo, Jay Bybee, William J. Haynes II, David Addington, and Alberto Gonzales. These six men are accused… Continue Reading
Hollywood glamorizes and romanticizes pirates. Johnny Depp and Kiera Knightley looking sexy in outlandish costumes, “Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum me hearties,” and all that. It goes all the way back to one of my favorite early Hollywood movies,… Continue Reading
Torture is in the news again, as the Red Cross joins the ranks of international organizations condemning the United States for using torture to interrogate terrorism prisoners, this time focusing on medical doctors who participated in the process to make… Continue Reading
Now, Newt Gingrich has to get the nod for coolest line of the week, when he urged President Obama to attempt to prevent the North Koreans from launching their ill-concealed ICBM test very early this morning with our SDI program… Continue Reading
Give credit where it’s due, liberals. With right-wing kool-aid drinkers in a tizzy over Barack Obama’s formal bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, I congratulate right-wing website Little Green Footballs for having the courage to state to its audience… Continue Reading
Before you get all paranoid about the prospect of a global reserve currency, which is an idea recently proposed by China and seconded by Russia, take a step back and ask yourself this: what was the gold standard, if not… Continue Reading
Apparently, there are plans in the works to send U.S. military troops into northern Mexico to help fight the ascendant narcotics organizations there. It seems to be the case that these large criminal enterprises are, in some regions of northern… Continue Reading