I'm trying out a subscription to Audible.com so I can listen to books on my iPod while I take my daily walks. The last time I listened to an audiobook it was actually a book on tape -- my college roommate and I listened to "The Fellowship of the Ring" on the ride back from […]
This video is just outrageous. Apparently Dearborn, Mich., is a lot like Saudi Arabia. Generally, you can’t sue cops personally for things they do in the performance of their duties. It’s called qualified immunity, but it is qualified. The defense of qualified immunity protects "government officials . . . from liability for civil damages insofar […]
Most blog readers (left and right) are probably familiar with undercover journalist/provocateur James O'Keefe. He's the guy who captured video of ACORN employees all too eager to help a pimp and a prostitute set up a house of ill repute -- such ill repute that it also involved sex-trafficking of underage girls. The story was […]
A modicum of common sense would’ve told you that you can’t save money by offering health care to more people. But President Obama and Democrats in Congress fed the Congressional Budget Office a load of manure and got back their desired lie – we’ll extend the solvency of Medicare, provide insurance to 34 million more […]
Having just mailed off my check for my federal income taxes, this quote of the day from the Economist doesn’t sit well with me. Politicians use the tax code to encourage things they like, such as driving hybrid cars, and to discourage things they don’t like, such as work.
Last year, when one iteration of the health care bill introduced us to “comparative effectiveness panels” that would decide on what sorts of medical treatments would get paid for under the new health care regime, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin referred to them as “death panels.” That earned her a “Pants on Fire” and “lie […]
I keep getting the feeling that the 2010 Census has a secondary purpose of propping up the U.S. Postal Service. First, they send a letter telling you that next week you’ll get the census form. Then you get the census form. The next week they send you a reminder post card to return the census, […]
I know it’s unsporting to pick on high school students, but if you’re going to write a letter to the editor of the local paper, [second letter] you better be able to take it. Today we have Adrienne Dickinson suggesting that the Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United case will result in the return […]
Friday’s Wall Street Journal recounted an interesting tactic used by Columbia University in order to get an area declared “blighted” so that it could create a research and academic facility. Columbia can’t use the Kelo justification because the university will not bring in more tax money than the existing businesses and private property, so they’ve […]
Sen. Tom Carper, a Democrat, demonstrates two of the big problems with Congress in this little clip. The first problem is that the US Code might as well be written in code. Is it any wonder that whenever the government decides to muck about in just about anything that the cost of that activity goes […]