AOL News is reporting an AP story with the telling opening sentence, “Thirty years after it began as just another quirky movement in Berkeley, Calif., the push to ban smoking in restaurants, bars and other public places has reached a national milestone.” Think about all the other quirky ideas being kicked around, ideas that seem innocuous now yet
Reichsführer Perry is mad with power . How else can you explain his executive order mandating that Texas girls ages 11 and 12 receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine before entering the sixth grade starting in September 2008? The principled Libertarian view is that Perry’s order is an aggression on the bodies of these young girls. But, of
Thank goodness for congressional committees, and the committees’ subcommittees. To think, Google almost got away with the crime of the century. ABC News is reporting that “A congressional subcommittee accused Google on Friday of ‘airbrushing history’ by replacing post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its popular map portal with images of the
The results are in for the first ever National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test in economics -- the feds consider the NAEP to be the “nation’s report card.” Supposedly, the results show that American public school students have achieved a high level of academic progress in economics by 12th grade. Read the sample question below
As a means to try to ease chronic nationwide air travel delays , the feds are going to reduce the number of flights in and out of New York City during peak travel times. That’s certainly one way to reduce delays, similar to Lenin and Stalin reducing food shortages by implementing mass starvation. But, I digress. Bastiat and Hazlitt would be
The Columbus Dispatch has an article about Bob Munley, a truly evil criminal. His crime? Producing and bottling tea, unregulated and at home nonetheless. And, state regulators can’t have that. So much for Liberty. Any risk associated with his tea is accepted by the consumer. Funny, you can purchase and consume FDA-approved drugs that are lethal,
Of course, chaos is the entrée. As of yesterday, here is the response from the Department of Homeland Security ... No additional comments needed. This dispatch says it all. from: U.S. Department of Homeland Security Multiple Wildfires Los Angeles - San Diego, CA Executive Summary #5 Major Response Operations: The Federal Emergency Management
Because you can never have too many mathematicians, engineers, and rocket scientists ... [1] The eSchool News online headline reads, “Report reveals a disconnect between what policy makers believe is important for students--and what parents and kids think they need for themselves.” Shocking? No. Parents working in the private sector understand
H.R. 1955 is an absolute attack on the freedom of speech. Not only does it assault my right to question government, it also assaults the right of ardent Marxists to speak their minds. So, I am at a loss at both ends. You see, I value the ability to speak as much as the ability to read nonsense from those such as the writers and curators over at
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, the day reserved for giving thanks and feasting. In Ohio, at least, another day may be reserved in the future: a day for apologizing to the state. In 2006, an Ohio hunter shot a deer out-of-season . It doesn’t matter whose property the deer was on, all deer in Ohio are the assumed property of the Ohio Department of
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