Month: September 2011

The physiological link between sexual abuse and drug use has tentatively been found. It has long been widely accepted that early childhood sexual abuse can predispose an individual to later substance abuse. But how? Now, a new study combining brain imaging with information gathered from a questionnaire assessing symptoms of subjective distress and discomfort provides…

It appears that Dr. Oz has gotten a few facts about apple juice wrong (or at least incomplete). Arsenic in apple juice! Fed to babies! And it probably came from China! Television’s Dr. Mehmet Oz is under fire from the FDA and others for sounding what they say is a false alarm about the dangers…

Jimmy Carter has a few kind words for Mitt Romney. On former Massachusetts Gov. Romney, the former Democratic president said he would like to see Romney win the Republican presidential nomination. “I’m not taking a position, but I would be very pleased to see him win the Republican nomination,” Carter said on an interview on…

But according to our Congress marijuana has NO valid medical uses. We do have the smartest Congress money can buy. kurogroves.com Run From The Cure – video. For those of you with a heart condition look about 5 minutes into the video. Also see my post The War On Cancer Patients. Cross Posted at Power…

H/T Ed Driscoll

I am not enamored with the current crop of Republican candidates, but this post isn’t about my opinion of the candidates. Rather, I want to take a stab at explaining why so many right-of-center young people like Ron Paul. First and most obvious, they agree with him. But merely agreeing with a candidate’s position on…

Cynthia Yockey has some thoughts on why Obama will win the election in 2012. Last week Allan Lichtman, a professor at American University, renewed his 2010 prediction that Obama will win in 2012. Prof. Lichtman developed a system of 13 keys to winning the presidential election in 1981 that has correctly predicted the winner of…

You can watch the video that made the guy we are about to discuss famous at My name is F**k You Co**sucker. Mr. Co**sucker has been arrested. A Kelso union longshoreman was arrested Monday on suspicion of four felony charges in connection with last Thursday’s vandalism of the EGT grain terminal at the Port of…

I am discussing my recent American Thinker article on Drug Prohibition over at Talk Polywell with the usual back and forth between the Social Conservatives and libertarians. I kind of recapped my arguments and the points I thought important in a comment which I think might be helpful to repost (edited) here. == I just…

Regular readers and non-regular readers, don’t miss this video! It shows our very own Sarah Hoyt winning the Prometheus Award from the Libertarian Futurist Society at WorldCon’s 2011. To see Sarah receive her award in the same ceremony in which the society awarded its Hall of Fame Award to Animal Farm is very moving, to say the…

This post was prompted by a small electric shaver going dead. I needed a single, measly AAA battery, and had only AA’s. I don’t know whether there’s a word for it (and “batteryphobia” sounds silly), but I hate batteries. I hate the way I always have to buy them for exorbitant prices, usually in a pack of…

I find it fascinating that what has gotten at least as much attention as the candidates in the Republican debates are noises made by persons unknown who happened to be in the the crowd. There was more fuss over the crowd reactions to the Texas execution rate than to Rick Perry’s opinions about the death…

A new biography claims Sarah Palin had a tryst with Glen Rice in 1987. And in case you are interested Mr. Rice is Black. The National Enquirer grabbed some details from the upcoming Joe McGinniss Sarah Palin book, and this chunk is too delightful not to share with you immediately. Apparently Palin had a fling…

Yep. The value of idiocy is rising. However, I fear it is a bubble. Wot? A French Bank is going after the Wall Street Journal for Euro failure opinion piece. Evidently they are not aware of the American Constitution. Namely the First Amendment. Something about freedom of speech I hear. Reuters has a tit bit.…

Texas Southern University is hosting a conference on The Criminal Justice System and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): The Impact on our Social Structure. Here are some of the topics that will be discussed: Who profits from the Prison System? Criminal Justice System: The Rise of the American Prison Empire The Prison subculture And if…

Commenter Frank was discussing the upcoming election at Instability Is Becoming Unstable. Here is what he had to say (corrected by his correction). The signs for future domestic turmoil in this country are becoming apparent. And they are being surreptitiously directed. From the union takeover of the Wisconsin state house, to the bused in union…

I’ve blogged a lot about SWAT Team abuses over the years, and so has M. Simon. Because of my opposition to the Drug War, a lot of what I have said has been in that context. While I have often argued that SWAT Teams should not be used for routine law enforcement, a post I…

Turkey is seriously saber rattling with Israel. Why you ask? The usual reason. Economic problems at home. …the Turkish market has lost two-fifths of its value in dollar terms, and the Turkish lira has fallen farthest of the world’s major currencies, close to its 2009 crisis low. Turkey’s financial unraveling has only begun. On March…

Instability in the Middle East is nothing new. It is a feature of the region. So where is it going? The always/sometimes/never reliable Debka Files reports/propagandizes/misinforms on the situation in Turkey. Both Tehran and Ankara have no doubt that the intelligence data released to them by the US military in the course of the counterinsurgency…