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...
Ford’s Boondoggling It Up, Too
GM has been criticized - rightly - for boondoggling it up at taxpayers' expense. For "investing" - on someone else's dime, taken from them by force, it always bears repeating -...
Barbed Wire Tattoos, Van Dyke Beards… and Twennies
In the ’80s, it was tinny electronic recordings advising you that “the door is ajar.”
In the ’90s, it was auto-strangulating seatbelts that assaulted you as soon as you closed the...
A Jury of One’s Peers…
Here's another one we've lost sight of - the true and intended meaning of, that is:
A jury of one's peers.
Though not specifically mentioned in the Constitution, the concept is an...
Where Gas is Still Around $2 Per Gallon. . .
Newtie won't bring you $2 gas - and forget about BHO. He wants to bring you $8 gas - in line with what Enlightened Europeans pay. But there is a way...