Month: January 2014

He talks about Canada. The same thing happens in the US.

Peter Christ is a retired Police Captain from Syracuse, NY. He is speaking at The St Albans Rotary Club. Brought to you by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. With a supporting role (as a Capitol Hill lobbyist) Citizens Opposing Prohibition. Inspired by The morality police are fighting for their very livelihood! and Cannabis Legalization Panics DEA…

Lately, people — especially those who have the power to tell others what to do or imagine themselves charged with telling them what to think — are absolutely freaking out about marijuana. TV celebrity and former prosecutor Nancy Grace is hopping mad: On Tuesday, Nancy Grace claimed that people on marijuana shoot, stab and strangle…

Ah. Yes. There is a panic at the DEA. Where will all this lead? A loss of jobs is definitely in the works. Panic is probably in order. The agent is being interrogated by Senator Grassley. You can’t make this shite up. Senator Chuck is a Republican. An 80 year old Republican. Well versed in…

From Reason Magazine. “You can refuse this swab, you can refuse a breathalyzer, you can refuse to participate in a field sobriety test, you can refuse to answer questions,” says criminal defense attorney Mark Gallagher. “Now, law enforcement doesn’t like this advice, but we do still have a constitution.” They can punish you for refusing…

M. Simon emailed me a link about a wonderful new technology I’d read about before, which is, simply, PRINTING A HOUSE. When I was a kid, they painted houses; now they print them, which is wonderful. The savings are dramatic in the extreme, but as Simon warns, The real problem with housing is not structure. It…

Ulsterman has links (which I will repeat here) about divorce talk in the Obama household. Michelle is unhappy. Good for her. So are we. Mostly about his political acts though. National Enquirer. Only weeks after Obama publicly humiliated the first lady by snapping a “selfie” with a dishy blonde for­eign leader, the first couple’s shaky…

A number of my friends on Facebook are decrying the over regulation of the legal cannabis market in Colorado and elsewhere. They seem to overlook the fact that every tool the government uses to regulate gets taken over by the regulated. Regulatory capture. The answer of course is: Deregulation     It is ironic that…

Nothing from Fukushima. Now consider this from the NIH – Radiation Hormesis: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Three aspects of hormesis with low doses of ionizing radiation are presented: the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good is acceptance by France, Japan, and China of the thousands of studies showing stimulation and/or…

Sheet metal screws can save your life! The streets and sidewalks are covered with sheets of ice, and I have to walk the dogs. Worse yet, a new storm descended on Ann Arbor, dumping fresh snow all over the ice. There is no way to know where or how to walk, and it is so…

I just learned a new concept. “Predictive policing.” It came up in a discussion of Eric’s “Your husband owns a gun,” he says. “Where is it?” So I thought a new word was in order. GuessStoppo We will be seeing GuessStoppo raids before long.

For years I have been a holdout against the new mobile devices, feeling ever more curmudgeonly as everyone around me has a “device” instead of just a phone. I’ve been ridiculed. My phone has been ridiculed. I admit, it is a relic. It is so old that the outside color (once black) has been worn…

So this is what ends up happening when law abiding gun owners fill out all the proper paperwork, go through background checks, and finally obtain a concealed carry license: So there the Filippidises were on New Year’s Eve eve, southbound on Interstate 95 — John; wife Kally (his Gulf High sweetheart); the 17-year-old twins Nasia…

The Sceptical Vegan takes a look at the issue. An issue in relation to genetic engineering of crops often brought up by other vegans and vegetarians is, “What about inserting animal genes into plants, doesn’t that make them no longer vegan/vegetarian?” The short answer is, no, absolutely not, and as pointed out before, the fear…

    I believe we have a one party system in this country, called the big-government party. There is a Republican branch that likes war and deficits and assaulting civil liberties. There is a Democratic branch that likes welfare and taxes and assaulting commercial liberties. Judge Andrew P. Napolitano     H/T Classical Liberal

Sumner on what fiscal policy really does: Fiscal policy can’t really do anything in the AD/NGDP area. So what do people like Larry Summers mean when they talk about a preference for using fiscal policy? They aren’t advocating the use of fiscal policy to get the right level of NGDP growth; you can do that…

In my recent post on Jews in the Marijuana Legalization movement I covered my former Rabbi, Jeffrey Kahn, extensively. Reason TV did an interview with him about the medical marijuana business. Rabbi Kahn closes the video with “ameliorating human suffering is more important than just about any law.” And it is not just his opinion.…

A mentality I saw reflected in a New York Times piece about middle class New Yorkers that just, well creeped me out: You wish for more; so many others seem to have it, after all — more space, nicer furniture, a greater number of things from Lululemon. But you also harbor a discomfort at possessing…

Jews are not the major force behind ending Marijuana Prohibition. But they are a significant force. I made a number of comments to this effect at my post Questions. I thought it might be a good idea (well it is something to write about) to turn them into a post. Eric also has a good…

An article about legal marijuana discusses the frustration of the rulers with the voters, and notes that change comes from the bottom up: Culture is not shaped from the top-down, but the bottom-up. Virtually every major legislative achievement — from civil rights to gay marriage — was precipitated by the people. The politicians had to…