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When we talk about the federal war on drugs, most people conjure up visions of sinister South American drug cartels or violent urban street gangs. The emerging face of the drug war, however, is not a gangster or a junkie: It’s your friendly personal physician in a white coat. Faced with their ongoing failure to curtail the illegal drug trade, federal drug agencies have found an easier target in ordinary doctors whose only crime is prescribing perfectly legal pain medication. By applying federal statutes intended for drug dealers, federal prosecutors are waging a senseless and destructive war on doctors. The...

George Soros, the emigre-billionaire who's bankrolling the Democratic Party's bid to drive President Bush from office, is motivated not so much by ideology as he is by his hatred of religion. So says NewsMax contributing editor Richard Poe, who explained what makes Soros tick for Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly on Tuesday. "He learned from the atheist philosopher Karl Popper, who was his teacher in England, an atheist philosophy of a so-called open or free society," Poe told the "O'Reilly Factor." He described Soros as "not only an admitted atheist - actually he is a crusading atheist, a militant...

The wonderful thing about having Canada as a neighbor was always knowing that its Molson-drinking, "eh"-affixing, health-care-socializing denizens were a mostly harmless bunch. Not any longer if you're U.S. drug czar John Walters. Wally is exercised about BC Bud, a high-grade, high-potency, high-price marijuana that will get smokers giggling quicker than the more mundane stuff grown in Mexico or that hollow out behind Uncle Billy's shed in Eastern Kentucky. Walters apparently has it figured that if the old-fashioned stuff could make the characters in "Reefer Madness" act so insanely, this nuevo-reefer must be, well, as bad as crack. "Canada is...