In 1992, Jim Gray, a conservative judge in conservative Orange
County, California, held a press conference during which he
recommended that we rethink our drug laws. Back then, it took a
great deal of courage to suggest that the war on drugs was a failed
policy.

By now, talking smack about environmental
doomsayer and neo-Malthusian
Paul Ehrlich should fall solidly under the heading "dead horse, the
beating of." But Ehrilch is some sort of zombie pony: no matter how
many times he is proven wrong, he rises again as a commentator,
consulted and quoted by otherwise discriminating people. He was
wrong about global starvation, wrong about pesticide-induced riots,
wrong about race war, and wrong about nuclear annihilation.

In 1992, Jim Gray, a conservative judge in conservative Orange
County, California, held a press conference during which he
recommended that we rethink our drug laws. Back then, it took a
great deal of courage to suggest that the war on drugs was a failed
policy.

One goal of the "open carry"
movement, The New York Times notes, is to
encourage liberalization of concealed carry laws.
California, for instance, is one of nine states where concealed
carry permits are
issued at the discretion of local officials, which often means
that only the politically connected receive permission to
discreetly pack heat.

Yes, Ron Paul won the CPAC straw poll and delivered a good speech. Glenn Beck delivered a great speech too, but for my money it was a Judge Andrew Napolitano speech that was the best of CPAC 2010.
As I sat in the audience following Judge Andrew Napolitano’s speech during the Liberty Forum at CPAC 2010 I couldn’t help but wish he was delivering it in the main ballroom on the final afternoon leading in to Glenn Beck’s keynote. Then again, he may have been booed, but that wouldn’t have stopped him.