Even crack addicts make good choices when given choices. “They didn’t fit the caricature of the drug addict who can’t stop once he gets a taste,” Dr. Hart said. “When they were given an alternative to crack, they made rational economic decisions.” When methamphetamine replaced crack as the great drug scourge in the United States, […]

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There’s an app for that.

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I wonder if they’ll show his re-segregation of the federal government, and his criminalization of speaking out against the draft and World War I . . .

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The past couple of years have seen warmists, though still insisting that the world is doomed (DOOOOOOOOOMED!!!) because of the greenhouse effect global warming climate change, start to walk back their dire predictions as each and every one of them have come NOT to pass. They’ve tried to insist that the warming that hasn’t happened […]

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The government has enough of our hard earned money to spy indiscriminately on every American contra-Constitutionally, for threatening yet another war in the Middle East, and for various other things that are blatant wastes of treasure, but they apparently don’t have enough money for a . . . fax machine, rendering it impossible for the […]

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Ken White of Popehat on the NSA and its antagonistic campaign to defeat encryption algorithms: I am not — at least not yet — classified as a terrorist, cybercriminal, or human trafficker. So I suppose I am the “other.” I want to learn to use strong crypto effectively, and encrypt my professional and personal communications […]

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Only when you’re in line with the narrative. A professor in the computer science department at Johns Hopkins, a leading American university, had written a post on his blog, hosted on the university’s servers, focused on his area of expertise, which is cryptography. The post was highly critical of the government, specifically the National Security […]

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In contrast to the economic boom on the wave of fracking for natural gas here in the US, Europe worries that their major push for economically inefficient forms of “renewable” green energy sources are putting European manufacturers at a major competitive disadvantage. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at The Telegraph: “We face a systemic industrial massacre,” said Antonio […]

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I just knew that fracking would be evil! In 2012, the energy boom supported 2.1 million jobs, added almost $75 billion in federal and state revenues, contributed $283 billion to the gross domestic product and lifted household income by more than $1,200, according to the report released today from IHS CERA. The competitive advantage for […]

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The dreaded male gaze strikes again! The Daily Caller: It started out as a casual attempt to make eye contact with the attractive girl in the car next to them. But for Aaron Arias, 19, and Jamal Harris, 17, the brief attempt to score some afternoon delight turned out to be a heroic kidnapping rescue […]

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