by Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr | Nov 2, 2017 | The Forum
In the childhood fairy tale Snow White, the magic mirror from which the evil queen seeks reassurance of her beauty never lies, much to her ultimate fury. In a contemporary story – definitely not a fairy tale – an expert on opioid abuse is forcing the...
by Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr | Oct 2, 2017 | The Forum
Turn on the television any given night, and you’re likely to see late night host Jimmy Kimmel bloviating like a public healthcare expert, unemployed NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick pretending to be a professor of criminal justice, or perhaps even crooner...
by Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr | Aug 3, 2017 | The Forum
In William Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, the Roman leader declares — on the steps of the Roman Senate and just before being fatally knifed by his friend and colleague, Marcus Brutus — “Et tu, Brute?” The contemporary adaptation of that iconic scene...
by Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr | Jun 21, 2017 | The Forum
Of the 500 million pieces of mail processed and delivered by the United States Postal Service each day, many are solicitations from non-profit organizations. In fact, if you’re above a certain age and have been an active donor to non-profits in the past, there...
by Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr | Feb 9, 2017 | The Forum
On today’s college campus, there are two types of speech; that which is deemed acceptable by liberal administrators, faculty, and students — and everything else. It is this rigid standard of so-called “free speech” that conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos...
