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The Heroin Task Force formed by Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and King County Executive Dow Constantine has endorsed opening safe-consumption sites for addicts, which would be a first in the U.S. But some say getting homeless addicts off the streets requires an even bolder move.

WASHINGTON – The Politik is predicting that on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, Donald J. Trump will win a landslide election, to become the 45th President of the United States.

It seems as if events are continuing to play right into Trumps hands. These events are only the tips of icebergs, the historical roots of which have been growing for some time. The forces that are shaping this election are almost biblical in nature. Everyday I am amazed how the world is boiling over and how our election is, in a sense, the vehicle through which the world soul is working. I can't remember any period like the one we are in now. Everything seems to be coming to a head at the same time with Hillary playing the villain...

*I wrote this a couple of years ago and just came across it while browsing through my computer's files. I don't know if I agree or disagree with this line of thought now, I just found it interesting as an exercise in philosphy. Please comment and critique. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- T. H. Green argued that... “if there are such things as rights at all, then, there must be a right to life and liberty, or, to put it more properly to free life." The right to free life. The right to not be born a slave? The right to have life, to...

A proposed law introduced in the California State legislature would allow public school children to use bathrooms designated for members of the opposite sex, if that students' "gender identity" differed from the students biological sex.

He couldn't get it done in one term. We all know he won't get it done with a second. So how long until the Left starts talking about an Obama third term in order to finish the job? And no, I'm not joking with this question.

  Part of me believes that the biggest reason for the Romney loss was because he could not get out the conservative vote, and all the FReepers who predicted this were right.   Having said that another part of me can't help but be mad at these people because they, in essence, helped to get Obama elected.    But will these non-pragmatic conservatives now do the work to start there own party because they correctly see the Republican party as not truly conservative?   I'd like to be able to understand why they sat it out. And can a conservative...

One of Britain's best known entrepreneurs – and a man who knows a thing or two about counterculture – Richard Branson is joining calls for an end to the War on Drugs