Archive for August, 2010
The left believe lies and propagate misconceptions, too
Thursday, August 26th, 2010I was not impressed by this blag post by Timothy Egan, even though several of my friends were (according to Facebook). I mean, all of his points were good and worth making, but the immense hypocrisy of the blag post and liberal Democrats in general makes me skeptical that any ...
Another perspective on small business in the era of Big Government
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010I liked this blag post by Philip Greenspun about how his small business suffers, both in absolute terms and relative to the competition, in the face of more government, more regulations, and more lobbyists. One reason I liked it might be because it fits in with our original goal in ...
Great insight from John Taylor Gatto
Monday, August 23rd, 2010LewRockwell.com reprinted the preface to The Underground History of American Public Education by John Taylor Gatto, and it had some quote-worthy passages: I want to open up concealed aspects of modern schooling such as the deterioration it forces in the morality of parenting. You have no say at all in choosing ...
It’s not your fucking business
Friday, August 20th, 2010Roger Clemens has been indicted for "obstruction of Congress" because he lied to them in 2008 when he told them, "Let me be clear. I have never taken steroids or hGH." The Imperial Federal Government has decided it can take people's lives, liberty, and property for putting certain substances into ...
Victims
Saturday, August 14th, 2010In Atlanta last Wednesday and Thursday, 30,000 people crowded the streets on foot and in their cars to hand in their applications for a voucher for free Section 8 housing to the East Point Housing Authority. More than a thousand people [as I mentioned, it was actually 30,000 in the ...
What the government tells you to eat may be killing you
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010I really liked this post by Radley Balko. Nothing needs to be added to it: Over at City Journal, Steven Malanga looks at the recent history of federal dietary guidelines and finds they may well be killing us. As a recent review of the latest research in Scientific American pointed out, ever ...
H.R. 5741: Universal National Service Act
Friday, August 6th, 2010Perhaps you have seen the text of this House bill introduced by Chuck Rangel: the Universal National Service Act. Yes, a draft: military (or some other form of) slavery. Here is the summary sentence of the bill: To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and ...
Driver error, not Toyota defects
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010To the surprise of absolutely no one who was paying attention, the data recorders in the Toyota vehicles that supposedly accelerated out of control indicate that the drivers were responsible, not the accelerators, brake pedals, or electronics. I remember the Regular Guys radio show in Atlanta predicting, when these faulty ...