Oh. Wait. No I’m not. Forbes: President Obama is proud of his bailout of General Motors. That’s good, because, if he wins a second term, he is probably going to have to bail GM out again. The company is once again losing market share, and it seems unable to develop products that are truly competitive […]

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One facet of this particularly offensive wargame scenario which isn’t even close to being explored is the idea that insurrections, regardless of the particular actors, don’t do so without cause. All insurrections are responses to the actions of those who hold power through legitimate means. There are no rebellions without a state or state actors […]

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Because if we didn’t have restrictive zoning laws that prohibit a teenager from selling his own fresh crops to his neighbors via a small stand in his front yard, we’d be just like Somalia.

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What’s so bad about cops busting in to the wrong house on a botched drug raid and shooting dogs, and then making the children caught up in the mess sit next to their bloody corpses for an extended period of time? Courthouse News Service: They “handcuffed all of the inhabitants of the plaintiffs’ home except […]

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Students being sent to jail. For farting. Courthouse News Service: The system established by the City of Meridian, Lauderdale County, and DYS to incarcerate children for school suspensions ‘shocks the conscience,’ resulting in the incarceration of children for alleged ‘offenses’ such as dress code violations, flatulence, profanity, and disrespect. Sent to jail. For dress code […]

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Welcome, folks, to the Total Security State: Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities and landmarks across the United States are recorded digitally on the spot, then encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with other intelligence. It’s part of […]

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The real problem isn’t Obama and his craptastic policies of killing Americans on his authority alone, or killings thousands of innocents in his drone campaign, or co-opting and extending many of the absurd Bush policies. It’s the media and their so-called balanced coverage of events. Reuters: President Barack Obama, like many of us, dislikes much […]

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So says the SEIU anyways. The Daily Caller: Unbeknownst to most people, explicit wage caps are already in place for nearly 8 million unionized, middle-class workers — nearly all union contracts set both a wage floor and ceiling. Looking to eliminate artificial wage caps, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) introduced the […]

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Glenn Greenwald on the unfair accusations that Obama has not brought change to the office of the president: Please re-read that bolded part to appreciate the magnitude of Obama’s trail blazing. When The New York Times, back in April, 2010, first confirmed the inclusion of an American citizen on Obama’s hit list, it, too, noted: […]

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What is “The number of times the government has spied on Americans since, 9/11?” Reason: Gazillions. That’s the number of times the federal government has spied on Americans since 9/11 through the use of drones, legal search warrants, illegal search warrants, federal agent-written search warrants and just plain government spying. This is according to Sen. […]

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