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When I read news stories, sometimes it’s not the news that fascinates me so much as unstated (and unexplored) subtexts lurking within. This morning Drudge linked a rather dismal-looking story about a new trend in Russia to have the government enforce “traditional values” (which I suppose means the KGB working in conjunction with the Orthodox…

Did you know that there is a very powerful drug which causes hallucinations, bizarre behavior, and addiction, and yet is completely legal to buy and sell anywhere in the United States? You think this sounds too amazing to be true? Watch the following chilling documentary for yourself and get the facts about this deadly threat.…

The decline of bees in China is forcing workers to pollinate fruit trees by hand. The Bee (Api) News adds more to the story.

Back in November of 2008, a lot was going on. So much that the hostile foreign takeover of the American beer giant Anheuser-Busch didn’t get as much attention as maybe it should have. Sure, Bud lovers were outraged, but I wasn’t a Bud lover, so I didn’t really care. I was more worried about what…

I enjoyed this video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vsVCHE7ayPE%3Frel%3D0 Early on, you’ll see the charmingly blurry tattoos on the arms of the proprietor, who is played by none other than R. Lee Ermey. Gun lovers and Second Amendment lovers will love the video, while gun haters and Second Amendment haters will doubtless hate it. Because after all, it “glorifies”…

Bob Scheiffer is a devious old lefty who hides behind a carefully contrived Middle America ethos, and I have never trusted him. However, his latest remark comparing Americans who want to preserve their constitutional rights with Osama bin Laden and with Nazis is simply too much for me to stomach: …what happened in Newtown was…

A conservative I am not. I often wish I had never heard the word. From the beginning of this silly blog, I keep lamely saying that the reason I vote for the right is not because I like the right, but because I hate the left more. Not all that big of a deal, because…

“When that constitution was written, people had muskets.” Jon Stewart (quoted at Reason) thinks that is funny. Which I’m sure it was when he said it, because Jon Stewart is a master of comic delivery. But a lot of people (especially those who rely on Jon Stewart as their voice of common sense) might miss…

Via Samizdata I came across this Eric Raymond bit that almost ends with: “I just bailed out of an attempt to induct me into a cult”. Go read the whole thing (it is not too long) to find the punchline.

NRO is lamenting that with a good majority of Americans against abortion (58% is their number) that our law makers (at what level – State? Federal?) are not passing laws against abortion. Isn’t it just like political junkies to believe that laws will solve the problem. I suppose the thought of black markets never crosses…

A graphologist I am not. I don’t especially care about people’s handwriting, and I think people ought to be able to sign their names any way they want without being judged. However, appearances are appearances, and I am not 100% sure I really want this signature appearing on the nation’s currency: Via Glenn Reynolds, who…

A lot is heard these days about guns flying off the shelves. As a backup I wonder why these aren’t flying off the shelves?

A Seeking Alpha article on stagflation states the obvious: …given the uncertainty in the economic and political environment as well as an administration that hardly can be called business friendly… Mr. Obama’s idol FDR had similar problems. It wasn’t until he got into a war that he wanted to win that he changed his anti-business…

A friend emailed me a link to an update about Mayor Bloomberg’s war on painkillers, with the following comment: Some people are addicted, so let’s limit everyone’s access! What an ass!!!!!! Liberalism WILL kill us. Yes, especially when it is bipartisan nanny state liberalism of the Bloomberg variety, because there is nowhere to turn. Bloomberg…

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…