Month: January 2013

Tired of modern politics yet? I don’t know if anyone is in the mood for a medieval conspiracy theory, but I just learned about a good one. I’ve been reading up on the history of the use of hops (which most people know is a relative of marijuana; both being in the Cannabaceae family), and…

In reply to this Economist article on foreign policy I had this to say: The ideas now ascendant re: American Foreign policy were very much in vogue in the 1930s. The results far exceeded expectations. I expect similar with this new trial of those ideas.

While I lost my temper a little the other night, a reminder today about the sheer petty-mindedness of our president on the gun control issue made me think I wasn’t mad enough. Europhile pacifist that he is, the man does not believe in the right of self defense. As a state senator in Illinois, President…

Surreal as it may seem, thanks to M. Simon I have just learned that New York Governor Cuomo — yes, the same Governor Cuomo who wants to destroy what remains of the Second Amendment in New York — now wants to liberalize marijuana laws. To a libertarian like me, this is obviously a mixed message. And…

Retired Police Detective Howard Wooldridge says that the Drug War “is the most destructive, dysfunctional and immoral policy since slavery & Jim Crow”. Well guess who else is saying it? Today in his State of the State address, Governor Cuomo made a passionate call for reforming New York’s marijuana possession laws in order to reduce…

What the fucking hell is going on with this stupid country? I’ve been running a case of the flu so I haven’t felt like blogging, but that does not mean events have stopped. I just went to Drudge earlier and saw these headlines: WHITE HOUSE THREATENS ‘EXECUTIVE ORDERS’ ON GUNS… ‘The president is going to…

Last month I wrote a facetious post, mocking what struck me as a ridiculous idea. The government can mint two platinum coins, declare they are worth $1 trillion each, deposit them at the Fed, and then move the money directly into Treasury accounts. Don’t laugh! Economists are actually endorsing this harebrained idea… That was then.…

Last April I wrote a post title “Fool us twice?” about the anti-Second Amendment policies of BofA. Well, guess what? Engulf and Devour has been at it again, and this time it’s even more outrageous, for they have illegally frozen perfectly legitimate funds deposited by a firearms manufacturer in the course of business, simply because they don’t…

As I’m fighting off what seems to be an insistent toehold of the flu right now, blogging isn’t a priority, but I did read about an interesting claim earlier that seems worth addressing. According to some Muslims (including that leading American front group CAIR), Islam has senior title to America. Why, you ask? Because, claims CAIR,…

Via Newsbusters, I found this true gem by Troubador at Daily Kos: …the murder-suicide massacres we see from time to time are the purest expression of the conservative mentality as it now exists in this country. I’m glad someone finally figured out the murderous essence of conservative purity. Clearly, Stalin, Mao, and the Cambodian killing…

In a WaPo article about the horrendous gun control legislation now in the works, a discussion of the importance of timing reveals the blatant opportunism at work. Timing is imperative Obama’s advisers have calculated that the longer they wait, the more distance there is from the Newtown massacre and the greater the risk that the bipartisan…

Here’s something you don’t see every day. A leading environmentalist named Mark Lynas, who has long opposed GMOs (probably because evil big corporations like Monsanto are involved) actually took the time to study the science. Not only did he conclude that he was wrong, but he has apologized: I want to start with some apologies.…

Here’s Joe Biden in 2008, sounding almost line Charlton Heston when he promised that if Obama “tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem“: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcyLeOm6yGc&feature=player_embedded Nice. Via Ted Nugent, who trusts that Biden still maintains those sentiments. Go Joe! Ain’t YouTube wonderful?

Al Jazeera is now a US TV network thanks to Al Gore. “When considering the several suitors who were interested in acquiring Current, it became clear to us that Al Jazeera was founded with the same goals we had for Current,” Hyatt wrote. “Al Jazeera, like Current, believes that facts and truth lead to a…

It is humbling that even at my age, I learn about “new” things that astound me, but which are in fact traditional and not new. Earlier it made me feel like an ignoramus to learn about a Catalan religious tradition going back to the 18th century which would seem downright disrespectful to Christianity, but which…

Most of us (specifically 77%) will have to pay more: The budget deal passed by the U.S. Senate today would raise taxes on 77.1 percent of U.S. households, mostly because of the expiration of a payroll tax cut, according to preliminary estimates from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in Washington. More than 80 percent of…

H/T JPFO