Is Marijuana Legalization a Big Government Plot? "Should it be legal? Yes. Do we want it legal? No." This counterintuitive wisdom on marijuana legalization comes from "Charlie," a colorful, sixty-something marijuana entrepreneur working out of Boston's Shawmut. From behind a Pancho ...
The "new" New Deal recidivism reveals a sclerotic movement stuck in the past. The ubiquitous prefix "new" stamped on any old program reflects the movement's horror that its ancient pedigree might be discovered. What self-respecting "progressive" xeroxes the past to boldly ...
His campaign slogan boasts of "Change We Can Believe In." He tells voters that "Americans are hungry for a new kind of politics." Rolling Stone dubs him "A New Hope." Barack Obama is the identikit Democratic presidential candidate. He has Jack Kennedy's youthful charisma, ...
If "Gimme That Old Time Religion" isn"t Barack Obama's campaign song yet, it should be. After starting July by endorsing an Obamized version of George W. Bush's faith-based initiative, St. Barack then appeared praying atop Newsweek in a cover story entitled "What He Believes" ...
Last week, Wilson-appointee George authored the decision codifying homosexual marriage in California, finding for gays and lesbians (and perhaps unnamed others) a "fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship." Of the four jurists who overturned the will of 4.6 million ...
In the candidacy of Barack Obama, one sees the history of the American Left writ small. Obama is an heir to the paternalist dynasty of the populists, progressives, New Deal, and Great Society; the Hull House-style passivism that demands city hall, the state legislature, and bodies more distant ...
