Month: May 2011

Institute for Justice – Policing For Profit You can download Policing for Profit [pdf] H/T Jccarlton at Talk Polywell who says: “There are people who do, for a variety of reasons, legitimately use cash for transactions. Or people who just don’t trust banks. In any case, without probable cause these guys have no business confiscating…

Reuters describes Guineans as divided over what is being called a “sex scandal” in a sub-headline: Residents of the West African state of Guinea were bemused to find their small country thrust into the spotlight by a sex scandal at the top of the International Monetary Fund — and divided over how to react. Excuse…

The Economist has an article up which is basically a long apologia for Dominique Strauss-Kahn based on the superior European attitudes towards sex. As those of you who read here often may know I’m somewhat of a libertine by American standards. None the less I thought a warning for our European friends was in order.…

Clarence Dupnik Pima County Sheriff You can read the full report at: Is this how we repay our veterans? The motherfuckers in this story are not just Law ENFORCERS. It is the American people who want to hurt people who have bad personal habits. What kind of fucked up shit is that? Especially when you…

Even though I have read similar stories until I am numb, this is the sort of thing I still have trouble believing is happening routinely in the United States. A 26-year-old former Marine, who served two tours in Iraq, with no criminal record, was at home with his wife and four year old son when…

While I am not an advocate of open borders myself, as a libertarian I can certainly understand the argument. What I cannot understand is under what theory people who have crossed whatever border into the United States would become entitled to anything at all, whether money, food, clothing, shelter, education, or medical care — to…

Princeton University’s Cornel West is complaining bitterly about Barack Obama (whom he once supported): Cornel West, a Princeton University professor and leading black intellectual, is harshly criticizing President Obama, a candidate he once supported but now calls “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.” West apparently believes that…

The video is not directly applicable to the subject at hand. It does feature one of the premier researchers in the field, Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, who’s work I discussed in a 2006 article PTSD and the Endocannabinoid System. So what about the FDA? PTSD is an extremely difficult medical condition to treat, and it currently…

May I suggest a visit to the YouTube page this video came from to watch more videos? Also the Forclosure Diaries home page. The video was suggested in the comments to You Have Got to be KIDDING – Nancy Jacobini’s Home was Broken Into AGAIN. The question is: why would the banks be doing this?…

What is it that makes Americans see movie actors as social and even political role models? I have long wondered, and Roger L. Simon’s post (“Sex Slaves for He But Not for Thee, The Perverted Politics of the Redgrave Family“) caused commenters to ask similar questions. The feudal Japanese placed actors in the same class…

Speaking of rudeness, Texas Governor Rick Perry apparently still supports sodomy laws. I think it’s rude to put people in prison when they haven’t hurt anyone. But I guess if I would vote for Gingrich over Obama even though he would execute people for drug crimes, I suppose I would also vote for Perry over…

I’d like to ask Newt a question: “Do you support drug prohibition because it finances criminals at home, or because it finances terrorists abroad?” Prompted by Eric’s Rudeness can create a “nice” backlash.

Most regular readers know by now how I feel about Newt Gingrich. Earlier I expressed the hope that he would quit the race, and this morning I was cheered to see Glenn ask this: Ouch. Is the Gingrich campaign over already? The man is deservedly catching flak for his attack on Paul Ryan, and I…

I just checked and Classical Values is now officially eight years old. While that’s not old enough to vote, it’s starting to get old for a dog. But you can’t teach old dogs new tricks.

Frank left a comment at TEPCO Halts Cooling Plan asking about something he saw on Drudge about a Fukushima reactor meltdown. I have news on that below the fold. I was going to post this later in the day – but with Frank’s input now seems the time. === The two videos below take about…

I was reading Ulsterman looking for dirt on Obama (more on that later) when I came across this interesting comment about the Osama bin Laden raid. justavet Posted May 14, 2011 at 10:12 am ULSTERMAN- LOVE THE INSIDER INFO- ASK HIM ABOUT THIS. SOME OF CAN ADD. LOAD OF CRAP. The operation “as propagandaized”(?) was…

What is it about stories involving obnoxious behavior by complete assholes that makes them so popular? The fifth most popular item at the San Francisco Chronicle involves an obnoxious passenger who had to be put off a train: A passenger train made an unscheduled stop in Oregon over a woman’s cell phone use and verbal…

Papertiger who has been a frequent commenter at Power and Control left a comment at Classical Values that I found rather interesting. In that comment he left a link to an article on Internet Porn in the Muslim world. Called fuhsha in Arabic, pornography is considered haram, or illegal, according to most interpretations of Islam,…

I know. I’m overdue for a Fukushima update. In the mean time the BBC reports that the cooling plan for reactor #1 has some holes in it. Japanese engineers have abandoned their latest attempt to stabilise a stricken reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant. The plant’s operator, Tepco, had intended to cool reactor 1 by…

Ann Althouse has had — and is having — problems with Google. But reading this ominous post by Patterico convinces me that the time has come to look for an alternative to Google.  Moreover, Professor William Jacobson calls it “the Big Blogger Blackout of 2011,” and says that several of his posts are missing. Fortunately,…