"How many shootings at schools or malls will it take before we understand that people who intend to kill are not deterred by gun laws? Last I checked, murder is against the law everywhere. No one intent on murder will be stopped by the prospect of committing a lesser crime like illegal possession of a firearm. The intellectuals and politicians who make pious declarations about controlling guns should explain how their gunless utopia is to be realized."

The liberal doctrine that gun control is crime control is just a myth. The National Academy of Science has reviewed dozens of studies and could find no proof that gun regulation clearly leads to reduced violent crimes. Years ago Washington D.C. passed its tough handgun ban and gun violence rose.

"If someone wishes to be prepared to defend himself, he should be free to do so. No one has the right to deprive others of the means of effective self-defense, like a handgun."

You've heard of fighting fire with fire, right? Well how about fighting drug addiction by giving drugs to addicts? Most would say that it sounds completely insane. A clinic in Vancouver, Canada has begun offering local drug addicts free heroine and needles as well as a nice place to kick back and shoot-up. The researchers believe that by giving the addicts free heroine, they won't have to steal and sell their bodies to get it. They're going to take heroine anyway, right? I wonder when we will open our first pedophilia clinic for those that are just going to be pedophiles anyway.

Is there a relationship between economic freedom and political freedom? If so, how much does one affect the other? Is individual freedom a political problem and material welfare an economic problem? Or are these two freedoms intertwined?

Milton Friedman said “Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it does this task so well. It gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

“The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the “rules of the game” and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on. What the market does is to reduce greatly the range of issues that must be decided through political means, and thereby to minimize the extent to which the government need participate directly in the game.”

An interesting article, Should we love Che Guevara?, from slate.com argues that if most people knew the true story of Che Guevara, they wouldn't be so quick to sport his face on their clothing.

According to Clinton and Obama, if obesity rates returned to what they were in the 1980's, Medicare would save one trillion dollars over 25 years. However, if we really want to save money, one study shows that obesity and smoking actually lower health care costs as a result of decreased life spans. Read the complete article.

So just remember, eating like a pig and smoking like a chimney = lower health care costs for all!

"Nickeled and Dimed" is a book written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Ms. Ehrenreich creates a new life as a working class citizen and chronicles her difficulty in making ends meet in a life that so many Americans live. She never seems to be able to move out of the working poor class.

In response to that book, Adam Shepard performed his own experiment. He left his comfortable home with $25 and the clothes on his back. After 10 months he had a truck, an apartment, and over $5000 in savings. Read more about it here.

He also wrote a book, Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream.

If it says anything for American optimism, his book is ranked #355 in sales on Amazon while Ms. Ehrenreich's book is #629.

UCA Professor Salaries

Have you ever wondered how much (or how little) your professor makes? Well now you can find out. After a great deal of research and mission impossible-esque espionage, UCA Conservatives brings you this top-secret information ... Actually, we just asked for it. UCA is a public institution and is required to make this information public.

UCA Salaries (PDF)

Forget about conservatives uniting to defeat Hillary Clinton. Her own followers are doing it.

The purpose of this blog is to offer a conservative voice to the University of Arkansas. We are a non-partisan group that believes that the majority of students at the University of Central Arkansas are conservative. We believe that many times the conservative voice at UCA is drowned out by small groups of liberal activists and a high number of liberal professors.