Ordinarily, “Don’t Feed the Trolls” is impeccable advice. Ordinary standards, however, do not apply to Radley Balko, whose course on Advanced Troll Feeding should be a prerequisite for graduation from Blogger University. (Via Transplanted...
I’m always drawn to these kinds of studies, even though they’re never really insightful. This one mainly backs up what everyone already knows about geography and age demographics among partisans (is it really any...
Charles Taylor is a Canadian philosopher and social theorist. His most book A Secular Age is an examination of modern secularism and the cultural conditions that gave rise to it. There’s a phrase that...
Former Republican congressman, subsequent convert to libertarianism, controversial 2008 Libertarian Party Presidential candidate, and proud Tea Partier, Bob Barr endorses Sen. Russ Feingold, one of the most liberal members of the Senate but also an...
UPDATED:I made a significant mistake in the original version of this post, which has now been corrected as noted below. I do not believe the correction affects the point of the post, though. Over...
When a fairly safe drug becomes illegal, other things often step in to fill the gap. Sometimes, they’re a lot less safe. We all know that alcohol prohibition led to bathtub gin, a substitute...
Writing at National Review, Conrad Black has many disparaging things to say about the War on Drugs and about the prohibition of marijuana specifically. For example: For blacks, the chances of being arrested and...
NPR has an extraordinary scoop on the birth of Arizona’s controversial SB 1070 illegal immigration law: Last year, two men showed up in Benson, Ariz., a small desert town 60 miles from the Mexico...
This video – via Radley Balko’s digs – is a good illustration of the many job-destroying, prosperity-hampering, mind-boggling regulations that various local governments have in place which make it harder for you and me...
Yesterday, guestblogger E.C. Gach asked: So the question I leave to you is, are Americans driven to crappy prime time sitcoms to escape the mess that is our national politics, or is our national...
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on Tariffs Making China Great AgainI'm going to petition the US government to fix my _huge_ trade deficit with the local Walmart by hav… on Read It For Yourself: How Trump Admin Defines “Gang Members” For DeportationAnd here we go with the constitutional crisis: A Federal judge Paula Xinis has ordered the Trump adm…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25From the article: Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in response to Xinis’ ruling that the judge… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25The governments argument was that he was a dangerous criminal and gang member and not coming back un… on Read It For Yourself: How Trump Admin Defines “Gang Members” For DeportationWe do not have a lot of chaos in this. We have court system that functions, and we have whatever Tru…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25As I've said before, my working assumption is that the goal is the North American Empire under Donal… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Isn't this the case where the DOJ's argument is "Neither we nor the Salvadorans can find him"? With…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25There was no tariff plan you would have been okay with. Hell, I doubt there is much of anything Pres…
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