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 Open Mic for the week of 12/16/2024So the "CR" of 1500 pages, given to members 24 hours before the vote, and which did all kinds of thi…
on Open Mic for the week of 12/16/2024Do you not understand the irony of speaking positively about banning political parties in the same b…
on Open Mic for the week of 12/16/2024I suppose we could blame the townspeople for not showing up the umpteenth time the shepherd boy crie… on Open Mic for the week of 12/16/2024A small backlash? If the election were held today they would be the 2nd biggest party in the Bundest…
on Open Mic for the week of 12/16/2024I have no idea why pointing out that Na.zis were elected legitimately is relevant to this discussion… on Open Mic for the week of 12/16/2024No, I'm pointing out that you find 'Trump is Hitler' more absurd than 'These people are Na.zis', so…
on Open Mic for the week of 12/16/2024The local paper referenced this work, partially paid for by the feds, this morning. Some of the phas… on Open Mic for the week of 12/16/2024And I will, again, point you that you are the first to mention Hitler, You sure about that? Maybe re… on A Note from EmHe's one of the AIs. https://claude.ai/new I make him read my essays and then I argue with him about…
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