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Chart of the week: World-wide weed

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Mike Young — 3 Comments

I mentioned earlier last week that in Colorado, you can still get in trouble for using marijuana. That got me thinking – what is the penalty (if any) for using weed in other places?

Tagged with: America, Cannabis, Countries, Global, Illegal, Legalization, Legalize, Marijuana, Other, States, US, Weed, Where, World
Posted in Social Policy

America – Missing! The World Without the United States

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Mike Young — 8 Comments

At midnight tonight, a passenger plane bound from Hong Kong to San Fransisco will disappear. A husband calling his wife from overseas will be disconnected. Traffic on border-crossings along the Rio Grand will dry up. Futures information from the New…

What Conservatives Can Learn from 1960s Counterculture

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Mike Young — 2 Comments

A lot of us have heard of the seismic political upheaval of the 1960s. We’ve seen it in pop culture references, watched movies about it – heck, a lot of our teachers have gushed about how “great” it was to…

Tagged with: 1960s, America, Conservatives, Counterculture, GOP, Liberals, Protests, The Modern Conservative, Young People, Youth
Posted in The Modern Conservative

Why the US Should NOT be a Democracy

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Mike Young — 10 Comments

Yeah, you read the headline right. The United States should not be a democracy. We actually never have been one, either. You might not know this, but you live in a constitutional republic, which is nothing like a democracy at…

Tagged with: America, Democracy, Government, Republic, The Modern Conservative, United States
Posted in The Modern Conservative

The Narrowing of the American Mind?

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Mike Young — 1 Comment

I get my news from a number of sources. Sometimes I even read the BBC’s front page for balance’s sake. This week I stumbled on an article by Mark Mardell, the BBC’s North American correspondent. It’s an article which gives…

Tagged with: America, BBC, Democracy, Europe, Mark Mardell, Politics
Posted in The Modern Conservative