One of the nice-sounding and disaster-creating policies of the past few years is the insistence that “harm reduction” is superior to enforcing laws against illegal drug use. Who doesn’t wish that addicts could be helped to lead safer, healthier, and less crime-ridden lives and hurried along the path to recovery? I certainly don’t want to […]
IT’S FOUR years since the dystopian nightmare of the covid lockdown befell the United Kingdom. The grossly disproportionate measure of putting the entire population under house arrest to prevent encounters with a respiratory infection appears no more rational now than it did then. In re-examining how the government arrived at this draconian decision, it is […]
IN AN insensitively timed opinion piece in the London Standard, Martha Gill declared that London’s crime figures are nothing to worry about. Killings are tragic, she admitted, but the capital city has a slightly lower rate of stabbings than in Birmingham. This casuistry appeared in the same edition which reported on the police hunt following a brutal knife […]
UNDER Scotland’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act, citizens may be prosecuted for speech in the privacy of their own home. The Act came into effect on April 1. Given how egregiously it violates the principles of free expression and limited government, it seems especially apt that it came into effect on April Fool’s Day, […]
As private sales of electric vehicles plummet and the Tesla share price continues to slide, the future looks bleak for this type of transport. EV: In Memoriam IT IS with only the slightest tinge of sadness that I have to report the death of the electric vehicle. EV, as it was known to its few […]
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An NCAA alternative known as the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has announced that trans women may not compete against biological women in all sports. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, the governing body for mostly small colleges, announced a policy Monday that all but bans transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports. The […]
Who are you going to believe – President Joe Biden or your lying eyes? That’s the choice as Biden runs for re-election. The Biden campaign is determined to tell tall tales. One favorite is that the economy is humming right along and consumers are reaping the results. This is news to most of us who […]
There aren’t many areas where I agree with the Biden administration but the CHIPS Act is one that I genuinely hope will work. The ACT passed both the House and Senate with bipartisan support and was signed into law in 2022. The idea was to award grants to chipmakers willing to build new facilities here […]
Republicans aren’t serious about crime, but according to the Washington Post’s Opinion Editor Alexi McCammond the Democrats are now implementing the real solutions to America’s crime problem. Yeah, right. Crime has become a hot political issue in the years since Democrats caved to the ridiculous demands of the George Floyd rioters, and in classic liberal […]
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