Regarding Jennifer Schwirzer’s article entitled “How Noble Experiments Fail,” I had to make a few comments. First, her argument that our country’s last attempt at prohibition was a miserable failure due partly to lack of enforcement has merit, however, any suggestion that we should try again with greater focus and fervor is reminiscent of socialists […]
Mayor Norman McCourt is all over the map on this issue. But what do you expect? He’s a professional politician. He’s going to take whatever position is most likely to get him reelected. I’m sure he hasn’t been happy lately over the national exposure he has been receiving. Various accounts are portraying his sleepy little […]
Government has refined waste, fraud, and abuse to an art form. I wrote about one instance of this a couple of months ago. Now, from our friends over at Homeland Stupidity, here’s another. Some people might be willing to overlook a certain amount of this, and say that as long as the government’s job gets […]
Last October, when I wrote about Time magazine’s story How To Spend $1 Billion A Day, I had no idea they meant spending it on strip clubs and Girls Gone Wild videos. The Government Accountability Office (how’s that for an oxymoron?) hasn’t even finished its audit yet, so stand by for all of the instances […]
There’s been quite a bit of chatter in the blogosphere recently about numbers stations (Slashdot, Homeland Stupidity). Hell, you can even order CDs of these stations and listen to them all the time, if you are so inclined. No one really knows what these stations are for, or who runs them. Conspiracies abound — everything […]
The mayor of Black Jack is at it again. This story has been going on for months (I even saw it covered on Headline News a few weeks ago) and I wrote about it back in March. Mayor Norman McCourt and his city council are trying to make examples of Olivia Shelltrack and Fondray Loving. […]
When will the powers that be in this country (and the DEA) realize that the so-called War on Drugs is as unwinnable as the Wars on Poverty and/or Terrorism? Did we learn nothing from Prohibition? Are they not aware that banning a substance (something that the Federal Government does not even have the authority to […]
How many times have we all heard this phrase? Whether it was from our own parents, or some movie or TV sit-com? Well, the statement is true enough in theory, but under our current system of government, it is far from true in practice. Ignoring for the moment the Supreme Court’s ruling last year on […]
There’s an old joke about a man-on-the-street interview in which they ask a typical John Q. Public which is the bigger problem facing our country today, ignorance or apathy? His response is the title of this article. I was reminded of this after reading this story today. It should come as no surprise to anyone […]
This tempest in a teapot caught my eye because it highlights just one of the many absurd aspects of so-called “illegal” immigration. People who care where Border Patrol uniforms are made are guilty of rearranging the deck chairs aboard the Titanic. There are larger issues here. Harry Browne gave a speech at the 2003 Freedom […]
Not in recent memory has there been a news report that so perfectly illustrated everything that is wrong with the so-called War on Drugs. I just had to share this one. Let us ignore, for the moment, that neither Congress, nor any other legislature, has the authority to ban a substance (without first amending the […]
The September 26, 2005 issue of Time magazine provided continuing coverage of the relief effort for Hurricane Katrina victims in a story disturbingly entitled How to Spend $1 Billion A Day. Before I even got to the story, however, the most disturbing image of them all was included in the table of contents: This is […]