This news should surprise absolutely no one. Central Coast News: A Salinas City Councilwoman will not face charges after someone stole a high power assault rifle from her home, Salinas Police said Wednesday. According to Salinas Police, on January 24th, someone stole the weapon and $700 worth of jewelry from the home of Gloria DeLaRosa […]
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Bleeding Heart Libertarians on the question of inequality, and dealing with inequality via taxing the rich: First, why should reducing income inequality be a worthy goal? If we are concerned about the poor, then we should focus (as Rawls famously does) on improving their lot in absolute terms, regardless of the effect of such improvement […]
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I was under the impression that universities in the west were considered beacons of enlightenment at which reason and argumentation were the tools with which to combat unreasoned squalls of ignorance. But why appeal to reason when you can just use administrative fiat to declare certain forms of speech unacceptable? Anyone who is under the […]
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Apparently, the US Assassination program which codifies the killing of US citizens simply on the President’s authority without any semblance of due process as described in the Constitution, authorized and enacted by the Obama administration in the War on Terror, is so secret, that they can’t even discuss the rationale for such a program in […]
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All your stem cells are belong to us. Seriously. In another outrageous power-grab, FDA says your own stem cells are drugs—and stem cell therapy is interstate commerce because it affects the bottom line of FDA-approved drugs in other states! We wish this were a joke, but it’s the US Food and Drug Administration’s latest claim […]
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Somewhere there’s a boot licking cop somewhere arguing that this course of action was totally appropriate! CBS Boston: It’s going to be a while before things get back to normal for Judy Sanchez and her three-year-old daughter. Last Thursday, a team of FBI agents swarmed her apartment building as part of a massive citywide drug […]
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Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce you to The Most Transparent Administration in the History of US Governance™. Eric Holder in congressional testimony concerning a Congressional investigation in to Fast and Furious: As I testified in a previous hearing, the Department does not intend to produce additional deliberative materials about the response to congressional oversight or […]
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Apparently, UNC Charlotte feels the need to keep a full time SWAT unit ON CAMPUS in order to be “prepared” for an event that happens, every 12,000 years. You want to know what would be a better policy to combat the infinitesimally small possibility that a gunman will start opening fire on campus, allow students, […]
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You know that when the Occupy movement is rapidly losing support from Bay Area residents, the movement is shit out of luck.
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In an interview of Eugene Jarnecki, the director of a new, award winning documentary concerning the horror that is the modern war on drugs and why, despite its obvious futility, our politicians still insist on prosecuting it: It’s the same reason we start losing wars. It’s because we have systems in place that were built […]
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