Joe Biden continues to be a terrible father. For all his senile doddering, the real problem with him isn’t his age, it’s that he lacks virtue. He has been willing to sacrifice anyone to obtain and keep power and the…
WASHINGTON — Over the years, I’ve written a lot about drug offenders sentenced to decades in federal prison, even life without parole, for first-time nonviolent offenses. Many were black men with few resources and limited prospects. None of them had…
Multnomah County, Oregon, District Attorney Mike Schmidt received landslide support from voters in 2020 for his “reform-minded” promises to reduce incarceration and address racial disparities in policing and law enforcement. After Schmidt earned 77 percent of the vote in one…
As of Tuesday, President Joe Biden’s administration will reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III substance. The rescheduling does not legalize weed, but the Department of Justice hasn’t shown much interest in enforcing its prohibition on marijuana sale and possession since…
After having spent a significant portion of my life at the intersection of I-70 and I-75 (where, until recently, marijuana was not legal but still used), I chose to go to college in rural Michigan (where marijuana has been both…
Drug abuse isn’t just an individual plague. The consequences of drug use extend far beyond the individual user, though decriminalization advocates often don’t acknowledge this reality. As with no-fault divorce, orienting public policy purely around the desires of adults has…
California’s progressive Democrats like to present themselves as boundary-breaking advocates of, well, progress as they advocate policies that reject the desiccated notions of the past. This rarely turns out well, as they generally push for more government regulations, spending, and…
Seattle is in King County, Washington, where Joe Biden got 75 percent of the vote in the 2020 election. King County had more than 1,000 drug overdoses involving fentanyl in 2023. These two facts are almost certainly related, but which…
SACRAMENTO — A front-page Washington Post investigation provides, as reporter Kyle Swenson promotes it in an X post, “an inside look at a well-funded effort on the political right to target, vilify, and defund a key piece of the social safety net, the ‘housing…
