Author: John Hawkins

A study more than thirty years in the making found that smoking marijuana permanently lowers intelligence, or IQ. Frequent pot smokers (even those who had given up marijuana) tended to have deficits in memory, concentration, and overall IQ. The reduction in IQ for those who smoked pot heavily prior to age 18 was most pronounced: […]

Republicans need to force colleges to issue reports, just like drug companies, attesting to the average cost, and the average salary, for every degree. It will cost you $160,000 to receive a degree in Spanish literature and will take you 88 years to pay that back. — Ann Coulter Revealing that Americans realize illegal immigration […]

Somewhere along the way, Feminism went from claiming, with some justification, that beauty should not be the defining virtue for women (just as it is not the defining virtue for men), to claiming instead that Literally every woman alive is in fact “beautiful,” with “beautiful” defined as “just the way you are, Baby.” This is […]

The focus of Obamacare’s opponents should be on repealing and replacing the overhaul, not on repairing it—and everything they do should be with an eye toward advancing that larger goal. — Jeffrey Andersen To argue that the Paris murders were unrelated to Islam would be silly. The terrorists shouted “God is great” on their way […]

Jay Z is a very shrewd businessman, but I wonder: Does it occur to him that he is arguably crossing the line from husband to pimp by exploiting his wife as a sex object? — Mike Huckabee Yet as the Associated Press reported just before Christmas, “it’s actually the liberal-minded who shelled out the most […]