Author: Mark of New Jersey

Via Balko, in 2011, German police fired a total of 85 rounds in incidents with human beings, killing 6 and injuring 15, with the majority of those rounds (49) fired solely as “warning shots,” meaning...

Due to reporting from Madeleine Morgenstern that answers a lot of the concerns I had raised about the North Carolina Lunch Box Story, I have retracted my post on the subject to the extent...

Please be aware of an important update to my post yesterday on the Carolina Lunch Box story.  I have placed the update at the end of that post.

[UPDATED 2/16; see end of post for update] [UPDATE II: 2/17 – Please see this piece of reporting from Glenn Beck’s site The Blaze.  Beck’s reporter, Madeleine Morgenstern, has done what the original stories...

One of the more common second-order views held by libertarians is that unions and free markets are antithetical to each other, and indeed that unions are inherently hostile towards free markets.  This view goes...

Seeing as I disliked both teams in The Big Game equally, I was unusually interested in the halftime show this year. I am not a terribly big fan of Madonna’s, but I’ve always appreciated...

I don’t know why, but I’ve been rediscovering early Barenaked Ladies and early Pat Green the last week or two. I can’t say that I care much for what BNL have done since (and...

This CBO study is being touted as proof by conservatives that the answer to this question is a resounding “YES!”  Going nearly as far is Megan McArdle, who nonetheless argues that “the CBO’s data suggest...

….Which is why I definitely did not see a bumper sticker this morning proclaiming that “All I needed to know about ISLAM I learned on 9/11,” right next to another bumper sticker admonishing one to...

In response to Mike’s emergency preparedness post, BlaiseP discusses the role of community in emergencies and specifically his experiences with the Amish in his area of Wisconsin, writing; The Amish around here have been...

I had hoped to avoid a formal foray into the inevitable dissection of Ron Paul, his newsletters, and his ties to the far right that seems to have hit right on schedule.*  As one...

I see that Elias has jumped on the study making the rounds that the net worth of America’s wealthiest family, the Walton’s, is greater than the combined net worth of the bottom 30% of...

Since it’s Opposite Week still, at least nominally, I figured today is as good as any to post my favorite explicitly pro-socialist anthem of all time. Larry Kirwan’s voice has a tendency to be...

I know this is a few days old, but while we’re on the subject of internet trolls, it seems worth pointing to this masterpiece of the anti-trolling genre from one of our old friends...

This weekend, we took our daughter to see The Muppets, her first time watching a movie in a theater.  We chose the movie because we figured it would at least be tolerable for we...