Alex P. Kellogg of The Wall Street Journal: Even when the demolitions are complete, Detroit will still have a huge problem on its hands. The city has roughly 90,000 abandoned or vacant homes and residential lots, according to Data Driven Detroit, a nonprofit that tracks demographic data for the city. But here’s the real kicker: […]
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And I’m ‘Firmly Opposed’ to the Obama Administration. Via the Huffington Post: Yet the entire premise for maintaining the government’s policy — that keeping marijuana criminally prohibited “reduces [its] availability and lessens willingness to use [it]” — is demonstrably false. Under present prohibition, more than 1/3 of 8th graders, more than 2/3rds of 10th graders, […]
We have a long way to go, but this new bill certainly seems like the sensible thing to do. Hopefully the other 49 states will start reigning in their teachers unions as well. Our kids deserve better than what they’ve been getting.
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Though I’m not sure it’s a good thing. If it’s true, let’s just hope that those the American people choose are actually Republicans and not Republitards.
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The other day I wrote about how the governor of South Carolina had vetoed a bill which would raise SC cigarette taxes by $.50 per pack stating, A politician finally understands that placing a large burden on a small set of the population cannot fix our budget problems. Good for SC. Alas, today the state […]
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It’s nice to see all that Hope and Change Obama campaigned on is working out for us. When it comes to the legal framework for confronting terrorism, President Obama is acting in no meaningful sense any differently than President Bush . . . More important, President Obama has embraced and at times defended the same […]
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It seems that Arizona has gone off the deep end and in to the Conservatard pool of utter stupidity. Last week they signed in to law a very controversial immigration enforcement bill which effectively makes racial profiling legal, along with various other KGBesque tactics for “dealing” with those eeeeeeevil brown people. Now they’ve made studying […]
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It’s a refreshing breath of fresh air to see that Obama’s “new” drug war policies aren’t hypocritical at all. When is it that libertards will finally understand that, by and large, the social freedoms offered by Demotard policy either 1) don’t fucking exist outside of shallow campaign promises, or 2) that the fulfillment of those […]
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It’s not often that the Times prints something worth reading, but I’ll take what I can get. Though there are some deep flaws in Leonhardt’s argument, like the idea that tax hikes should be on the table initially,1 and that government is the best – perhaps only – provider of advanced hospitals, education, etc, the […]
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I’m proud that we pay such close attention to diversity on our Supreme Court.