Truthiness on the recent case: Here’s the most interesting thing to me about the long, loud debate over the recent Hobby Lobby decision: Both sides believe that they are having someone else’s views forcibly imposed upon them. Usually in political disputes, it’s broadly understood which side is being forced and which side is doing the…
DetailsThe US will be selling Iraq an air force.
“The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.”
Today is Bike to Work Day — an event that’s all about trying to get more people to ride bicycles more regularly. And here’s some advice that might help with that goal: Stop forcing people to wear bike helmets. For most bikers, this advice is anathema. The importance of wearing a helmet has been drilled…
DetailsThings from all over… 81.5% of Money Created through Quantitative Easing Is Sitting There Gathering Dust … Instead of Helping the Economy. and QE isn’t working!!! Mass shootings have an ever-clearer link, not to videogames or gun ownership, but to pharmaceutical drugs. Terrifying. Elizabeth Warren has no clue what she is meddling with, economically speaking.…
DetailsThis is one for the history books. File under “terrifying complicity”: On September 12th, 2012, Federal District Judge Katherine B. Forrest issued a permanent injunction against enforcement of Section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. In July 2013, the 2nd Circuit ruled the plaintiffs did not have standing to challenge that law. Monday,…
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