Seven million Americans have been arrested since 1995 on marijuana charges and 41,000 of them are rotting in federal and State prisons---but the public is starting to rebel against “the preposterous war on pot,” two political scientists say. Thousands of other pot users and sellers are confined in local jails as well.
With the massacre at Ft. Hood, we once again see the consequences of gun control.
Remember what the gun controllers say: that once gun control is imposed, would-be murderers will obey the gun-control law by resorting to some other form of murder. At least the killers won’t use a gun, the gun-controllers exclaim, because gun possession is now against the law.
Lebanon's opposition has agreed to a proposed national unity government line-up, paving the way to end four months of political deadlock in the country.
A leading member of Iran's parliament has said that Tehran will turn down a deal that would compel it to hand over its low-enriched uranium for fuel for a nuclear reactor.
Investigators are searching for a motive behind the shooting at a US army base in Texas, in which 13 military staff were killed by an army psychiatrist.
At least 25 foreign and Afghan troops have been injured after an air raid mistakenly targeted them during a joint operation in the northwest of Afghanistan, local police say.
Supporters of Fatah, the Palestinian faction led by Mahmoud Abbas, have taken to the streets in the West Bank city of Ramallah in an attempt to force the Palestinian president to reconsider his decision not to seek re-election.
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