100 college presidents came out last week in support of lowering the drinking age to 18. I agree with them. If you are old enough to vote and go to war and fight and perhaps die for your country - then you should be able to drink legally.
Imagine that you just fought in Iraq for [...]

I have been in Copenhagen, Denmark the past few days on a business trip. I spent much of yesterday in southern Sweden, just a short train ride away. Scandinavia is a unique niche in the world. It is interesting in these countries because they do so many things the opposite of the US - [...]

Western countries that have long been run by left-wingers have begun imposing various limits on free speech. As an American, this is a really frustrating thing to watch. Here is a new example in France:
PARIS (Reuters) - French former film star Brigitte Bardot went on trial on Tuesday for insulting Muslims, the fifth time she [...]

Via Hot Air:
D.C. police are going door-to-door Monday in one of the city’s crime-plagued neighborhoods, asking residents for permission to search their homes for guns and other illegal contraband.
The program, called the Safe Homes Initiative, will offer homeowners and renters limited amnesty for possessing any contraband found by police.
Ah, “programs”, don’t we need more liberal [...]

Maxime Verhagen, the Dutch Foreign Minister who was in Madrid to attend the Alliance of Civilisations, declares:
“… freedom of expression doesn’t mean the right to offend”
Good Lord, let’s not offend anyone with our free speech! That would be, well, criminal.
Seriously, between those trying to restrain free speech via more hate crime laws and [...]

Ah, socialism. When the left has steadily used government to create leftist institutions that spin out of control, you get … well, France.
A goal of the left is to create artificial new power centers in society that are supported by government - and vice versa. This way leftism goes on forever. For example, once laws [...]

I wrote here about the ridiculous case of a 17 year old black kid, Genarlow Wilson, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having oral sex with a 15 year old. For all the false grievances that black activists claimed about the Jena 6, six black kids who were briefly charged with attempted [...]

Sorry, this is a long post.
With the stampede to denounce Jena, LA as racist, I have been trying to understand what has really gone on there. That is hard to do when people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson get involved. The message is simple: Jena is racist and a symbol of all America. Sharpton [...]

This seems like an odd thing to try to revive civil rights protests around:
In an off-campus attack on a Friday night, one of the Jena Six – Robert Bailey – was attacked with beer bottles by a group of white men at a party.
The next Monday, white student Justin Barker taunted Mr. Bailey about [...]

Crime in some places in the US is so bad - so much worse than average places - that drastic steps are needed. Read this story in the New York Times today and try to imagine living in this housing project. Sure, if you asked me, housing projects should not exist in the first place. [...]

Washington, DC politicians like unarmed citizens:
WASHINGTON - District of Columbia officials said Monday they will ask the Supreme Court to preserve the city’s 30-year-old ban on private ownership of handguns that was struck down by a lower court earlier this year.
If it chooses to take the case, the high court could end its long [...]