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Relevance: 13% Posted on: October 12, 2022
President Biden’s decision to pardon everyone federally convicted for a simple marijuana possession is not the true beginning of the end of the federal war on drug-taking people. In 2018, the federal government legalized certain products with cannabinoids derived from hemp. That’s something, even if the feds still ban buying…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: January 27, 2020
Suppose I disagree with you — say, on whether I have the right to bear arms. I favor, you oppose. (We’re just supposing here.) In the heat of online argument, I call you a scoundrel or other unkind things. I am intemperate but avoid libel or threats. Should I be…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: May 10, 2021
Journalist Tom Lemons may be jailed up to twenty years for investigating the Dawn Center, a shelter for victims of domestic violence in Hernando County, Florida. Lemons talked to former employees and to women who sought help there. He learned about theft of donations, filthy conditions, and a chronically lawless…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: July 4, 2017
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America (opening): When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: December 6, 2011
In 1984, twenty-seven years ago this very day, three FBI agents pushed their way into my North Little Rock, Arkansas, home and placed me under arrest. My crime? Violating the Military Selective Service Act — that is, absolutely, positively, publicly refusing to register for the military draft. (I’d have resisted…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: November 16, 2020
Georgia, oh GeorgiaNo, no, no, no, no peace I find . . . So opens James Brown’s famous song — also an iconic hit for Ray Charles.* As the rest of the country quiets down, post-election, that crooned-about lack of peace continues to echo in the Peach State as if…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: May 17, 2017
The people of Roseburg, Oregon, aren’t paying enough in taxes. That’s the upshot of Kirk Johnson’s recent New York Times article, “Where Anti-Tax Fervor Means ‘All Services Will Cease.’” “For generations in America,” readers are informed, “small cities . . . declared their optimism and civic purpose with grand libraries…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: January 11, 2019
Will President Trump declare a “national emergency”? Is he that desperate to get the funds needed to build a wall (or steel-slate fence or barrier of some sort) on the U.S. border with Mexico? It looks increasingly likely, but who knows . . . What I do know is how…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: March 29, 2016
Yesterday’s Washington Post clarified how the “gender pay gap” is calculated: This metric does not take into account the different types of jobs, varying levels of experience and education, or women who lose seniority and promotion opportunities when they leave the workforce temporarily to care for children, which they do…
Relevance: 13% Posted on: February 27, 2019
“We live in a republic,” I often hear, “not a democracy!” Sometimes it seems like we live in neither. Today is the first National Term Limits Day. Its proponents aim to style February 27th as an annual event. It’s a new thing. But term limits themselves are not new. For…