Via Clayton Cramer, I see that Eugene Volokh is asking for examples of "Unreliable Assurances" in which it was confidently stated that A would not lead to B, examples where (1) the opponents of some p...

Martin Amis has a piece in the London Times about the horrors of violence in the Colombian streets, in which he pauses to hit at Ronald Reagan's attitude towards gun control, which doesn't have much re...

New York City Mayor Michael "Nanny" Bloomberg, he of the smooth hands and Nurse Ratched smirk, made international headlines with his selective war on smokers. Now, Bloomberg and the city's ruling cla...

One by one, the superstitions of liberalism are crumbling into the sea like the towers of lost Atlantis. Last month anthropologist Franz Boas, a patron saint of the liberal view of race, bit the deep ...

One major reason the Soviet Union finally collapsed around its own socks is that the ideological dogmas by which it was governed were eventually exposed as pure and simple lies. If the liberalism that ...

One year ago this weekend, at two in the morning of Saturday, December 15th, 2000, Jason Befort, Heather Muller, Bradley Heyka and Aaron Sander were shot to death in Wichita, Kansas. Muller was also ra...

Occasionally I hear someone who is otherwise very bright say that the world might be a better place if there were no weapons. It wouldn't. All was not sweetness and light before the invention of firea...

A tip of the hat to Attorney General John Ashcroft, who in a letter to the National Rifle Association makes clear that the Second Amendment is back in the Constitution this week. What's in the Constitu...

The last vestige of civilized Britain has fallen away — the unarmed British "Bobbie." For 170 years, British police functioned without guns. Since their founding by Sir Robert Peel in 1829, Bobbies wal...