Anthony Gregory

A clear majority of Americans now want to see marijuana legalized. Fifty-six percent believe it should be treated like alcohol or tobacco. Only thirty-six percent defend the status quo. What's more, the trend has been moving towards the pro-legalization position, and continues to do so.

It is...

If President Obama has his way, the last U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan could be Americans born five years after 9/11. The administration has signed a pact to maintain a military presence there until 2024. After initially claiming the rumors of such a deal were false,...

California Governor Jerry Brown proposes a $91 billion budget with dramatic cuts to medical, child welfare, disabilities benefits, and the court system. He also wants higher sales taxes and income taxes on the wealthy to reduce $8.5 billion from the $16 billion deficit. If this tax...

Senator Marco Rubio has proposed letting young illegal immigrants stay in the United States legally. This is seen as an alternative to the Democrats' DREAM Act, although supporters of the latter welcome the Rubio plan as a way to reinvigorate the agenda of immigration reform.

Romney has...

Israel's former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says it is "definitely not" time to attack Iran. Former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan and former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin similarly caution against Netenyahu's impulse for military action. Sixty-three percent of Israelis oppose a unilateral strike on...

Once again, the vagaries of war have gotten some attention. The Los Angeles Times published photographs showing American soldiers posing alongside Afghan corpses. This comes only months after the bad publicity resulting from a video showing Marines urinating on Taliban corpses and in the midst...

Am I the only one who finds the melodrama over Ann Romney's social status to be preposterous? Let's put aside the gender politics -- even President Obama has chided his fellow Democrat, consultant Hilary Rosen, for remarking that this stay-at-home mom never worked a day, offensive to both...

Obama's Affordable Health Care Act is in the news again, as its individual mandate underwent oral arguments before the Supreme Court last week. In my own opinion, the mandate is indeed bad policy and unconstitutional, but I have my doubts the Court will agree. It has upheld virtually...

Stephen Colbert's presidential run was meant to be a joke, but his Super PAC has brought in some serious dough. In a report to the Federal Elections Commission last week, the PAC disclosed donations of more than one million dollars to date. The comedian was quoted in a...

The Supreme Court this week heard oral arguments in FCC v. Fox. In this important first amendment case, the Judges will determine whether to enact significant limitations to the Federal Communication Commission's power to censor the airwaves. The proximate issue concerns FCC's fines leveled at Fox for four-letter words spoken...

Today is Bill of Rights Day, the 220-year anniversary of this revered document's addition to the U.S. Constitution in 1791. The Anti-Federalists had demanded a Bill of Rights to ensure that the federal government created in 1789 would not morph into the type of tyranny that the American colonists...

Americans love to claim about anyone they don't like in the White House that his latest exercise of power was "unprecedented." Nearly every program, edict, war, executive order, and piece of legislation is attacked for supposedly breaking new ground. Usually, this characterization is misguided. It is often all too easy...

As we approach the ten-year anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, we are seeing lots of estimates on the costs of America's wars waged in the last decade. Yet most of them miss the big picture.

President Obama has pegged the cost of the Iraq war at about a...

No president has talked up gay rights more than Barack Obama. He gave a brief shout-out to gay voters in his November 5, 2008, presidential victory speech. In proclaiming this June to be Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender month, Obama championed "the task of making our country a...