The View from Abroad

Drug Czar Supports More of the Same                                                         The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP), a nonprofit organization of scientists, health care practitioners, and academics based in Canada and Britain, released a report this week that found that when government cracks down on the drug trade the result is an increase in violence.  The [...]

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The View from Abroad

As Usual, Government Regulation as Political Payoff I heard the president’s speech at Cooper Union College today and thought it was quite bizarre that he would criticize Wall Street for bad behavior when Washington is currently running our national debt through the roof and the policies that emanated from there in the last ten years [...]

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Antelope Valley Tea Party 2010

In the Antelope Valley, on April 15th of 2010, there were two tea parties.  They were at different locations and had different organizers. It is hard to say if either of them were successful. The first was a demonstration in a parking lot at a busy intersection.  People held signs and waved banners.  Observers honked [...]

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The View from Abroad

Why the Constitution Matters in Military Affairs                                     Week after week it’s easy for me to blog with compelling arguments that most things Congress does is unconstitutional.  But, up until about two years ago with the advent of Ron Paul’s Freedom Revolution and last year’s birth of the Tea Partiers, most Americans would have said, so [...]

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The View from Abroad

Obamacare is Unconstitutional – Part 2 So, let’s see, towards the end of last year both houses of Congress passed a form of health care reform despite close to sixty percent of Americans being opposed to both bills.  A few weeks later, the usually liberal voters of Massachusetts in a true sign that the polls [...]

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