One Old Lady’s Moxie – And a Lesson For All Of Us
When a belligerent Baltimore, MD cop forced his way into the home of 90-year-old Venus Green - sans search warrant, sans legitimate probable cause - and proceeded to ransack the old...
“Your” Car Won’t Be Beginning in 2015
After a certain point, it's not paranoia.
The latest brick in the wall is the predictably named "Moving Ahead For Progress in the 21st Century Act," also known as Senate Bill...
Services Rendered (But Not At Gunpoint)
Most people "get" that their ability to decline a service or product serves as an incentive. The seller of the service or product must convince you that the service or product...
Voting is Not the Problem… Americans Are the Problem
People vote for too many things.
Mostly they vote to take things from other people - either their property or their freedom of action. Each election in modern America is for...
Safety… Defined For You By Someone Else
One of the problems with "safety" laws is they amount to someone else's cost-benefit analysis. Someone else's favoring of more this vs. less of that. Someone else' determination that the Pros...
Anti-Authoritarianism Starts Within
Mainstream "conservatism" gets no traction because it's often so obviously hypocritical. It provides the shells necessary for the authoritarian opposition (they like to call themselves "liberals," which is sort of accurate...
Freedom is a Smoky Burnout… But Not For Long
I take comfort in the fact that I can still drive old cars instead of new ones. I don't have to have six air bags, stability control, back-up cameras or OnStar....
How The Corn Lobby Will Kill Your Older Car
They may not need to ban old cars outright. Instead, they'll just kill them off quietly - by poisoning them internally.
With ethanol.
Modern cars - cars built since the early '90s - ...
A Reason to Throw Your Sail Fawn in The Woods
You've no doubt heard about warrant-free wiretaps - and monitoring of your e-mails and web surfing habits. These things have been routinely and openly engaged in by "law enforcement" since the...
If They Can Force Us to Buy “Health Care”…
This is written as the Supreme Court is weighing the constitutionality of ObamaCare - in particular, it is considering whether the federal government has the authority under the Constitution to force...