Government & Liberty

At the Northwestern train station in downtown Chicago, commuters are met with a billboard that reads: “Odds of dying in a car crash: 6,200 - 1; dying from smoking: 3 - 1.

Tick, Tick, Tick, Mr. Motley A few months ago we noted that famed plaintiffs’ attorney Ron Motley had vowed in October 1999 to bring the former lead paint industry “to its knees” within three years or he would give them his 120-foot yacht.

The European Union took yet another step away from the rational regulation of genetically modified crop plants and foods in late June, when it became the 22nd party to formally ratify the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.

When I started farming 30 years ago, I never dreamed of how technological progress would revolutionize agriculture. We still can’t control the weather.

He’s Demanding a Lifetime Subscription to Penthouse A man who uses a wheelchair has sued a Florida strip club because an area where private lap dances are performed is up a flight of stairs and inaccessible to him.

Win Big! Lie in Front of a Train The New York Times reports a New York City woman was awarded $14.1 million by a state supreme court jury after she was hit by a subway train.

Ronald McDonald on Trial The tobacco industry warned for years that legal precedents set in lawsuits against it would lead to class action suits against other legal products. Critics scoffed, but the prediction is fast coming true.

Acne Medication Made Al Qaeda Wannabe Do It The family of the 15-year-old boy who crashed a single-engine plane into a Tampa high-rise, Al Qaeda style, has filed a $70 million lawsuit against the maker of an acne medication that had been prescribed

With two million new users being added each month, more than half of the nation now uses the Internet, and the much-decried “digital divide” is closing at a rapid rate, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

A Crushing Burden “The tort crisis,” writes Michael Freedman in the cover story of the May 13 issue of Forbes, “is really tomorrow’s news.

Six Months to Go and Counting In October 1999, notorious asbestos and tobacco plaintiffs’ attorney Ron Motley boasted to The Dallas Morning News that if he failed to bring the lead paint industry -- which he had just sued in Rhode Island -- “to its

On January 8, 2002, the United States Supreme Court reached a landmark decision in the ongoing “debate over definitions” that is the Americans with Disabilities Act. In Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc., v.

1 Europe Goes to Pot: Great Britain, EU Abandon Marijuana Prohibition UK officials branded marijuana prohibition an endangered species in 2001, announcing in October that police would no longer arrest individuals for marijuana possession, and that

"Don't you know there's a war on?" So ran one of the more popular admonitions of World War II. It meant, in effect, "What you're doing ain't exactly contributing to the effort, so you best mend your ways." The principle applies today.

As the anthrax scare has mushroomed, modern technology's solutions have emerged like a quick strike force. Medical treatment was instantly available with the antibiotic, Cipro.

My first brush with "bioterrorism" occurred in 1997, when I was working as a television producer half a block from the B'nai B'rith National Headquarters in Washington, DC.

What could easily have been utter chaos in the hours immediately following the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, DC in fact was nothing less than the finest hours of medical service by health care professionals, firemen,

Mary Kohler is a 71-year-old dynamo. There’s simply no better word for her. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a degree in paleontology, she has worked in advertising and public relations for the past 40 years.

The Grand Old Party was formed in opposition to slavery, and the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, was responsible for ending slavery in the United States.

Laws, made through the difficult, deliberative process of political compromise, inspired Otto von Bismarck's now-famous remark: "Laws are like sausages: It is better not to see them being made.

In a mid-February hearing before the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health of the House Resources Committee, witness after witness testified as to how their local communities have been adversely affected by environmental initiatives funded by

The angry affirmative-action dispute between the U.S.

Although 84 percent of the people responding to the National Constitutional Center’s recent Constitutional Knowledge Poll believe that our system of government depends on active and informed citizens, only 5 percent could correctly answer ten

After Governor Edgar nominated black conservative Lee H.