God forbid that drug users have an outlet to obtain their wares safely and conveniently without having to travel to shady neighborhoods and buy them from shady people. The AP: “The Farmer’s Market” allowed suppliers of drugs—including LSD, Ecstasy and ketamine—to anonymously sell their wares online. They hooked up with buyers in 34 countries and […]
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The Wall Street Journal on the idiocy of central planning and transportation: The best solution would be to return all the gas tax money to the states, roughly in proportion to the money each pays in. This would allow states and localities to determine which roads and transit projects they really need—and are willing to […]
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We’ve long known that the federal government seems to have jumped the shark quite some time ago, but it’s juxtapositions such as these which should loudly tell the American people that unless you’re politically connected, you’re fucked. RealClearMarkets: Justice may be blind, but who works overtime to make it deaf, dumb, and stupid? Which would […]
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Of course it’s a revenue problem and not a spending one. CNSNews: The government spent at least $205,075 in 2010 to “translocate” a single bush in San Francisco that stood in the path of a $1.045-billion highway-renovation project that was partially funded by the economic stimulus legislation President Barack Obama signed in 2009. “In October […]
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If only all of science were this honest. Greenwire: The scientists had read Kareiva’s recent essay, which takes environmentalists to task. The data couldn’t bear out their piety, he wrote. Nature is often resilient, not fragile. There is no wilderness unspoiled by man. Thoreau was a townie. Conservation, by many measures, is failing. If it […]
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An elderly English woman is told by her government run doctor’s office of 30 years that she can no longer be treated there because her four mile round trip to and from the office has too large a carbon foot print. The Telegraph: Avril Mulcahy, 83, was told to address the “green travelling issues” over […]
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I’m sure the judge gives leniency to every defendant who cries before the court. The New York Daily News: He cried — and the judge cut him loose. A disgraced NYPD detective convicted of planting drugs on an innocent couple was looking at jail time when he walked into court on Thursday. He walked out […]
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Another tale of woe, courtesy of our brave boys in blue.
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Some people see an environment where Obamacare is struck down as a good one for Obama. Why? Because having his signature bill struck down as unconstitutional might arouse his base and encourage him to go vote. HuffPo: Striking down the statute could really rev up the president’s base — add fuel to their current political […]
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School programs designed to monitor what their students do and say outside of school and school hours, and administrators expelling students based on said monitoring. Yahoo News: From Facebook communications to tweets, you’re no doubt already aware that nothing you do online is truly private. But should you have a reasonable expectation that your superiors […]
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