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Eric Holder Says Gun Owners Should “Cower” in Shame Like Smokers

The Attorney General’s exact words: What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that’s not cool, that it’s not acceptable,...

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Finding affordable dentist like pulling teeth?

It must be for some. And one man, 63-year-old Jose Santiago Delao of Texas, was willing to provide dental services on the cheap, despite not having a license. Eventually he landed on the authorities’...

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Apparently Turn-About Is Not Fair Play to Bloomberg?

New York City’s Mayor-Turned-Nanny-Wannabee, Michael Bloomberg got a taste of his own medicine when he was denied a second slice of pizza at a local restaurant. Says the “report,” from The Daily...

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Too little, but not too late: Eric Holder begins to roll back the drug war

More than forty years after the U. S. government launched the modern drug war, its highest-ranking prosecutor has tacitly admitted that it is a legal and moral failure: In a major shift in criminal...

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The Unintended – But Expected – Consequences of Obamacare

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – aka Obamacare – was expected by economists to cause economic changes.  (Here is the act in a handy 906-page .pdf file.)  Some predicted lower...

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Watching Illegal TV in Turkey

Last month, I wrote in the Libertarian Standard about Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling and the end of the Golden Age of Television — and about Serling’s preference for government interference over...

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2014: the year of the sweet leaf

Tomorrow, the country’s first legal retail shops to sell recreational marijuana will open for business in Colorado. This comes 14 short months since the state’s voters approved the legalized...

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America’s First Legal Marijuana Purchase Happened a Long Time Ago

TMZ calls 32-year-old Coloradan Sean Azzariti “the first man to make a legal weed purchase in the United States…  ever.” But of course that’s wrong — and not just because people have been buying it...

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Ted Cruz mad at Obama for not throwing more pot users in cages

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Alberta Texas), a “Tea Party” Republican and ostensibly a champion of states’ rights, is unhappy with President Obama’s decision to not round up marijuana users in Washington and...

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Of Morality and Failed Business Strategies…

Some time ago, back in 2013 in fact, Richard Branson published a piece on LinkedIn, under the heading of “Big Idea 2013: This Year the Drug War Ends” wherein he positied, among other things, that if...

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