
The Food and Drug Administration, a federal regulatory agency perpetually in search of new products to regulate and new jurisdiction to conquer, last June received the gift it had coveted for decades...

In the 2008 general election, only about 57% of the country’s voting age population actually voted. In Georgia, even fewer citizens — 54.7% of the “VAP” — felt it sufficiently important to actually cast a ballot. Although...

Like the mythical phoenix that rises from the ashes, the USA PATRIOT Act just won’t go away. After signing the massive piece of legislation into law on October 26, 2001, President George W. ...

With the H1N1 “swine” flu season moving into full swing, and with AIDS/HIV and other deadly diseases continuing to plague millions of Americans, one might think that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), would have its hands full. Af...

President Obama has declared the H1N1 or “swine” flu a “national emergency.” Exactly what this will mean to the average citizen remains unclear, as shortages of the swine flu vaccine continue; but it is unlikely that simply declaring an “emergency” will relieve bottlenecks in distributio...

The folks at United Nations headquarters in New York City, and our “allies” at Number 10 Downing Street in London, must be rubbing their hands with glee. Gun control groups here and abroad likewise are at last quietly cheering. Why? Af...

In 2005, the United States Supreme Court struck a blow against the medicinal use of marijuana and against the notion that states can enact and enforce their own laws without being trumped by the federal government. In the Gonzalez v...

Back when the USA PATRIOT Act (short for the complete title of the massive bill — the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act”) was being debated by the Congress in the weeks following the terrorist attacks of Septe...

Two years ago in this column, I wrote that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was deploying “Behavior Detection Officers” (BDOs) at America’s airports to watch for “suspicious” behavior exhibited by people at those facilities. The prog...

The much-heralded and much-maligned 600-mile long border fence between the United States and Mexico, is morphing into a typical government boondoggle — way over budget, way behind schedule, and way short of its promised goals. ...

The federal government may not be able to balance a budget or define the goals of a foreign military operation, but it sure excels at finding ways to gather more and more private data on more and more citizens...

Several months ago, I caught an episode of Penn & Teller’s “Bull****” that showed people collecting money in parking lots from shoppers, by making them feel guilty that their vehicles were contributing to global warming. Peop...

A grandmother of triplets in Indiana recently discovered what it means to be on the receiving end of a bad law and an overzealous, uncaring prosecutor. Sally Harpold faces jail and a criminal record not for child abuse, extortion, or grand theft auto...

U.S. District Court Judge Paul Magnuson, of Minnesota, last Julyissued an order in the long-simmering “water wars” between Georgia, Alabama and Florida. Th...












