Emotion About Motion
The fixation on speed - and only speed - as the Number One Road Safety Issue is emblematic of the emoting that drives policy in this country.
It’s of a piece with...
He Ain’t Hurtin’ No One…
A reader writes: "If drunk drivers were allowed to drive at 5 m.p.h. on the shoulder of the road, things would be a whole lot better and safer all around."
It's a...
Electric Lemon Aid
Elon Musk is brave. You've got to give him that.
After all, the PayPal billionaire and co-founder of Tesla Motors was ballsy enough to provide one of his six figure electric lemons...
Let’s Enforce The Law
If it's really wrong - ethically indefensible - to "speed," then why not enforce speed limits to the letter? The law doesn't spot shoplifters one pocketful of stolen stuff before action...
King Clover Says: No Mundanes May Drive!
What is the predictable-as-Pravda solution to the problem of people who can't deal with snow driving? Impose a ban on all driving, of course!
That's just what Massachusetts King Clover (er, governor)...
The Running Man … For Real
How long will it be before they actually start shooting us from helicopter gunships a la The Running Man?
In that movie, Arnold Schwarzennegger plays Ben Richards - pilot of a gunship...
Licenses For Illegals?
Here's a quick way to tell whether a person is still under the sway of statism: Ask his (or her) opinion about this business of granting (word choice deliberate) driver's licenses...
The Mind of an Enforcer
Want to understand how cops think? Or rather, how thought-less they are? Here's a deconstruction of an interview (full text here) Yahoo conducted with ex-traffic op Mike Brucks:
Yahoo asked Brucks, "How...
Why They Will Lose This Time
A reader - several readers - express their sense of hopelessness. That 1930s Germany is replaying itself out right before our eyes - and that most Americans either don't see it...
Will You Submit & Obey?
In New York, we have a prequel of what's to come - the repeal of the Second Amendment and summary criminalization of peaceful citizens merely for possessing the means of self-defense,...