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Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:00:08 +0000 – By John R. Lott, Jr.Author, Freedomnomics/Senior Research Scientist, University of Maryland Inevitably, the massacres in Germany and Alabama over the last two days have produced more calls for gun control. Already the attack in Alabama is being used to call for a new …

The line for gasoline was several blocks long as I sat behind the wheel of my father’s Chevrolet and cracked open “The Catcher in the Rye”. It was 1973. I finished the novel by the time I pulled up to the pump hours later, hoping there’d still be gas to …

President Obama’s immigration speech last Thursday had everything to do with cementing the Democratic Party’s hold on the Latino vote for 2016. And he is counting on the GOP to make it happen. His strategy depends upon a chorus of Republican voices calling for the rounding up of 11 million …