Political reality shows us that the shootings in Charleston are not going to have any appreciable impact on the likelihood of any type of gun control law passing anywhere outside of the bluest of the blue states.
A word that has come in recent years to be used to refer chiefly to Muslim fanatics obviously applies to a man who murdered nine people because they’re black.
A Second Amendment victory in the District of Columbia,
A federal judge has ordered the people of California to foot the $100,000 bill for sexual reassignment surgery for someone serving a life sentence for murder.
In a twist fitting for an M Night Shyamalan movie, there is growing evidence that there was malfeasance by the co-pilot that resulted in a deliberate crash of Germanwings flight 9525.
There’s no excuse for the former NBC anchor’s lies. But there are reasons.
The families of many of the Sandy Hook victims are seeking to have the manufacturer of the AR-15 held legally responsible for what happened. While understandable, their lawsuit is misplaced and largely without legal merit.
A popular idea that does nothing useful while simultaneously violating the Constitution.
Big victories for advocates of marijuana legalization.
Just over one year ago, Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds was attacked by his son, revealing problems with our mental health system that have yet to be adequately addressed.
Mandatory quarantines are a massive violation of personal liberty. We ought to be careful in how, when, and why we impose them and who they are directed toward.
New York State’s gun law takes rights away from nearly 35,000 people without any due process whatsoever.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has made an incredibly weak argument in favor of his state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
Could John Hinckley, Jr. face murder charges 30 years after his attempted assassination of President Reagan?
The Texas GOP wants to “pray away the gay.”
The tragedy in Santa Barbara will. inevitably, revive the same old gun debate. But can it ever evolve beyond shouting?
Yesterday afternoon’s shooting spree at Fort Hood appears to be a related to post-traumatic stress.
Gun control has faded as a political issue as the memory of Newtown has faded, and that was entirely predictable.
Some 2000 veterans of World War II were lobotomized by the VA. That’s awful but not outrageous.
Don’t blame Dallas, or 60s era Texas conservatism, for what happened in Dallas 50 years ago,
Bradley Manning’s announcement that she wishes to begin living life as a woman poses some interesting legal questions.
A state of perpetual war is incompatible with good mental health and stable family relationships.
Jerry Brown’s second go-round as governor has been very, very good to the Golden State.
Dr. Keith Ablow lays out the case that President Obama is conducting psychological warfare on us.
The prospects for gun control appear to be dimming.
Are we heading toward an era where a diagnosis of mental illness becomes an instrument for state oppression?
Keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people while protecting individual liberty isn’t easy.
The Manchin/Toomey proposal on background checks isn’t perfect, but it isn’t horrible either.
Mother Jones’s recording of a secret McConnell campaign strategy meeting is much less than meets the eye.
Illegal aliens will henceforth be be called, well, something.
President Obama has unveiled a set of restrictions that wouldn’t have stopped the Sandy Hook Massacre. Some are nonetheless be good policy.
Despite the push it’s likely to receive, most of President Obama’s gun control proposals will barely even see the light of day in Congress.
The ultimate impact of the Newtown tragedy on the nation’s gun laws is likely to be very limited.
