Cars, Cops, Traffic Stops – and CHPs
Trigger-happy, over-aggressive cops are - unfortunately - a reality. Which is why it's probably a good idea to get your concealed handgun permit (CHP) if you carry a gun with you...
The De Facto Mandate
Big Business has discovered that it can do business with Big Government - and vice versa - the two spooning together like lovesick newlyweds. Of course, it's us - the Mundanes...
Cypher’s Choice
In the original Matrix movie, there's a character named Cypher who decides that life is more comfortable for him within the confines of the false-reality programming that is the Matrix. He...
A Lesson From The Past . . . About the Rip-Off Of Today
By 2016, per federal mandate, all new cars will be required to average 35.5 miles per gallon. This sounds like a big deal. It isn't - except in terms of how...
A Modern Take on ‘Planned Obsolescence’
GM - and the auto industry in general - were accused some 40 years ago of perpetrating "planned obsolescence" - that is, deliberately redesigning cars each year, usually in trivial, cosmetic...
Clover Conditioning
It is not enough that we break the heretic. We must make him one of us. Words to that effect, as spoken by the character O'Brien to Winston Smith in 1984....
The Oil Change Co-Pay
If using insurance to pay for everything is such a marvelous idea, why not expand the concept? How come, for example, we tolerate paying for tire rotations and oil changes out...
Now Nothing Is Off The Table
Tomorrow - the Fourth of July - should be considered a national day of mourning.
Having affirmed the constitutionality of Obamacare - that is, of the federal government's asserted authority not...
What Not To Do on Selection Day
The only way to shatter the illusion of consent - the keystone of majority-rule "democratic" tyranny - is by making it obvious to nearly everyone that the Fuhrer (oops, "president") has...
Mittens Comes to Town
Yesterday, I needed to get some new Heli-Coil inserts to fix some damaged threads, so I hopped on one of my bikes and headed into town - "town" being Roanoke-Salem in...