War on Drugs
19 states that legalized marijuana use say it should disqualify people from owning guns
If you are a cannabis consumer who owns a gun, you are committing a federal felony right now, even if you live in one of the 40 states that have legalized marijuana for medical or recreational use. That perplexing situation…
Why the DOJ has stopped describing Maduro as the head of a literal drug cartel
On the same day that U.S. forces invaded Venezuela to capture Nicolás Maduro, the Justice Department published a federal indictment that supposedly justified the operation. Like the 2020 indictment that federal prosecutors…
Invading Venezuela for ‘law enforcement’ is an open-ended license for war
Venezuela is well rid of Nicolás Maduro, a corrupt, oppressive, and illegitimate leader who presided over that country's continuing decline after succeeding Hugo Chávez in 2013. And judging from what happened after the…
Marco Rubio Lays Out How Trump Admin Will Gauge Venezuelan Cooperation
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Secretary of State Marco Rubio told ABC News host George Stephanopoulos on Sunday that Venezuelan cooperation would be judged by the ruling party’s actions after the arrest of the country’s…
Thoughts on the Capture of Maduro and Trump’s Attack on Venezuela
Nicolas Maduro. (Rayner Pena/EPA/Newscom) Last night, US forces launched strikes on Venezuela and seized that country's dictator Nicolas Maduro, bringing him back to the US to face charges for drug smuggling. Maduro is…
Donald Trump says the U.S. will ‘run’ Venezuela after Maduro’s ouster
The U.S. military captured the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, during an operation carried out early this morning in the capital city of Caracas. At 1 a.m., residents of the city reported…
Trump did not have congressional approval to capture Maduro in Venezuela
The U.S. military strikes that targeted Venezuela on Saturday morning and the subsequent capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife may turn out to be popular or defensible, given Maduro's history of…
Cocaine smugglers who don’t get bombed often aren’t even charged by the DOJ
On September 2, President Donald Trump gleefully announced that he had ordered a "kinetic strike" on a speedboat "transporting illegal narcotics," killing 11 men he described as "positively identified…
If you give a bear a badge, will it respect your rights?
A few years ago in Connecticut, Mark and Carol Brault complained that state officials had strapped a camera to the neck of a black bear that was known to frequent their property. They alleged that the Connecticut Department…
If Change Is Inevitable in Venezuela, Will Cuba and Nicaragua Soon Follow?
For millions of Venezuelans, Cubans, and Nicaraguans living in South Florida, the question is no longer whether change will come to their homelands, but when—and at what cost. As United States pressure intensifies on…
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