Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse (Metropolitan Books, 2013), 386 pages.
The Vietnam War polarized Americans in the 20th century like no other event, dividing the people as no war had ...
The states of New Hampshire and Illinois recently legalized marijuana for medical use.
New Hampshire’s governor, Maggie Hassan, signed House Bill 573 into law on July 23. The bill allows patients to purchase up to two ounces of ...
Who but parents are responsible for deciding for their children the food they eat, the clothes they wear, the toys they play with, the church they attend, the company they keep, the music they listen to, and the programs ...
The federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since July 24, 2009. Although this is a long way from the first federal minimum wage of $0.25 an hour in the 1930s, it is not high enough according to ...
The Democratic attempt to enact additional or more draconian gun-control legislation is dead. Liberals in and out of Congress — many of whom would prefer that only members of the military, the Department of Homeland Security, and the police ...
Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy
by Robert Sirico (Regnery Publishing, 2012), 213 pages.
Critics of the free market assert that it fails the underprivileged, leads to income inequality, exploits the poor, and is at ...
The number of Americans receiving food stamps is at an all-time high — and still climbing. One in seven Americans is now on food stamps.
Although the food-stamp program has been officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...
Medicare is government-funded health care for Americans aged 65 and over and/or those who are permanently disabled. Like Social Security, it is funded by payroll tax deductions from both employers and employees, but only partially. Unlike Social Security, which ...
Last month, the parliament in Turkey passed legislation ostensibly designed to curb alcohol consumption among Turkish youth.
Retailers may not sell alcohol between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. No alcohol may be sold within 100 meters of educational or religious ...
The ongoing scandal concerning the IRS’s targeting conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status shows just how close conservatives are to liberals and how far they are from libertarians.
It has come to light that the IRS singled out conservative ...
