Month: September 2011

I’ve been gone all day, but the graph that Say Uncle displays made my blood pressure go up as high as the graph. The graph compares the numbers of “delayed-notice” search warrants (authorized by the Patriot Act after trusting Americans were assured they would only be used against terrorists): That’s a more than 100 to…

Researchers at Rice are exploring a new technology that allows wireless devices to “talk” and “listen” on the same frequency could pave the way for 4.5G and 5G networks and could allow wireless phone companies to double throughput on their networks without adding a single cell tower. H/T ECN Magazine Cross Posted at Power and…

From the NAACP Criminal Justice Summit. The title of this post comes from a statement made about 4:30 into the video. I also very much liked the “they weigh the money they don’t count it” from early in the video. H/T Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Cross Posted at Power and Control

I’m going to make some generalizations here so let us not get nitpicky. And each case is an event unto itself. But this is my general principle. What does a lefty want? Your money. Your labor. Sometimes 95% or 99%. That has got to hurt. And it does. But give him the money he wants…

Reuters is looking at the disparities in Drug Prohibition Enforcement in America. The numbers tell the story of a criminal justice system blighted by racial disparities in drug law enforcement: African-Americans make up around 12 percent of the U.S. population, account for 33.6 percent of drug arrests and 37 percent of state prison inmates serving…

Fromma Harrop in an article entitled The Progressives’ Freedom Agenda has this to say about Rick Perry. The third week in July, Republican Gov. Rick Perry said that the U.S. Constitution — whose 10th Amendment limits federal power — gives states the right to decide on such matters as abortion and gay marriage. The fourth…

The Daily Show The above graph is from The Futurist Cross Posted at Power and Control

This is what the Drug War looks like in New York City. From 1978 to 1996, there were 49,326 marijuana possession arrests, according to an analysis for the alliance done by Harry Levine, a sociology professor at Queens College and an expert on marijuana enforcement. The increased enforcement, the policy alliance says, is due not…

While it will probably surprise no one who watches a lot of baseball, I stumbled onto something I hadn’t known before. Nicotine has been shown in a scientific study to enhance athletic performance: Nicotine is widely reported to increase alertness, improve co-ordination and enhance cognitive performance; however, to our knowledge there have been no attempts…

I don’t know whether this is a case of life imitating art, or art imitating life, but their First Amendment rights notwithstanding, the creators of the “Tea Party Zombies Must Die” video game ought to be ashamed of themselves. The game is called “Tea Party Zombies Must Die” and, apart from abysmal game play, features…

From a review of the book the movie is based on: Okrent identifies five dry constituencies that formed a very unlikely coalition for the purposes of banning booze. Racists, progressives, populists, suffragists, and nativists linked hands across party and regional lines to agree on this one issue alone. Southern Democrats who used the spectacle of…

From what I can tell the Democrats are going to use Drug War Racism against the right in the next election (it is about all they have – it might be enough). I really love it!!!! My socon friends are going to have to choose between Prohibition and defeating the President. Tough choice. For them.…

A commenter on my blog repeatedly says: It is statists vs anti-statists. Right and left have no meaning except to define which things the particular brand of statists thinks is important. Update: My friend Eric just sent me a link to a Reason article which covers the same subject in a lot more depth (it…

I dunno. But it is usually a prelude to war. Wot? In? The? Hell? Is? He? Talking? About? This: Turkey Suspends Trade, Defense Ties with Israel. Turkey says it is “totally suspending” all trade and military ties with Israel as relations between the two countries continue to worsen. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced…

Inspired by the awful news at Zero Hedge. I can’t recall if I posted this before. Even if I did it is topical today. In my estimation these guys are in some ways the successors to Flanders and Swann So what is happening? We are going into Phase II of the Depression. General economic collapse.…

Via Memeorandum, I see that there is a flap over the editing of a transcript from which I quoted last night. I got the portion I quoted from Real Clear Politics, and while I didn’t watch Hoffa’s speech, it was clear to me that he was calling for war against the Tea Party, using what…

Here is some news I missed. The NAACP is calling for an end to the Drug War. The so-called war on drugs has been a failure of colossal proportions — from both racial and preventive standpoints — and the NAACP passed a resolution demanding President Obama and Congress end the program altogether. The overall message…

That is where government gets a LOT of its money. There is no point in sending lobbyists to Washington if there is no chance for gain theft. Why does the government like corporate taxation in particular? It is a stealth sales tax.

Also Why Green Energy Won’t Work And windpowerfacts.info H/T to the boys at Talk Polywell Cross Posted at Power and Control

Or why Republicans will never reverse socialism: The arsonist has lit a match to your house. The fire is raging. And your complaint? “The arsonist failed to wipe his feet before he came in tracking mud all over the house. Sticky-icky mud that is very hard to clean up.”