Blown Away . . . for Not Complying
In addition to "officer safety," another de facto capital offense in this country is "failure to comply."
This past fall, a Northern Virginia man named...
An Even Playing Field
Electric cars aren’t just subsidized - they’re not taxed the same way that non-electric cars are. Their fuel - electricity - is the obvious...
Who Profits From The Loss of Our Privacy?
Who owns the data culled by your car? And - more to the point - who is profiting from it?
And why aren't they cutting...
Thou Shall Not Pass . . .
This country is painted over with double yellow bars - a sort of rolling-ribbon prison, from which escape is not possible. Legal passing zones...
The Wave Builds
Out on the open ocean, a tsunami is almost impossible to see; but as the wave gets closer to shore, it builds and swells...
The Drug Whisperers
You may have heard about people getting speeding tickets not based on the reading of a radar gun or other instrument subject to empirical...
The V2V Bee Hive
Ayn Rand, for all her quirks, had some solid things to say. One of these was that civilization exists - or declines - in...
It Did What it Was Written to Do
A great many people - especially conservatives - reverence the Constitution, consider that it has been abused and that if only the doctrines expressed...
Whose Ideas?
It’s been said that good ideas don’t require force - while bad ones rarely get traction without it. True enough. But how about a...
Stranger Things
The strangest argument has been put forward in defense of Senate Republicans - who might as well be Senate Democrats - not rescinding the...