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Eric just did a post on Too taboo for who? wondering why some things are forbidden. Funny. Also funny in the same vein is this video by a former European Drug Czar explaining why some drugs are forbidden. OK. I’ll give away the punch line. It is the same reason for the forbiddenness of the…

While Tuesday’s election may not hinge on the answer, I have a perplexing question. If alcohol is forbidden, and if pigs are also forbidden, then are pigs allowed to drink alcohol? Who gets to decide??

If you read around the net much you will come across something like this: “I paid $50K for a college degree. I have a job in my field (Chem Eng) but the debt is killing me.” What he is saying is that he got scammed by the school racket to pay $50K for knowledge that…

Via Glenn Reynolds, I see that Charles Krauthammer recently contrasted how President Obama is ‘playing president’ for Sandy, but not Benghazi. Apparently, he wants to have credit where credit is not due, and avoid blame where blame is due. Not to be unduly facetious (for I know innocent people are suffering) I nonetheless think there are some interesting…

I took the “Candidates you side with” test and here are my results: 89% Gary Johnson Gary Johnson Libertarian on healthcare, domestic policy, economic, science, and immigration issues 83% Mitt Romney Mitt Romney Republican on foreign policy, economic, environmental, science, and domestic policy issues 67% Virgil Goode Virgil Goode Constitution on economic, environmental, and domestic…

As part of an unbroken 36 year tradition, here’s today’s jack-o-lantern.

H/T Investors Business Daily. Update: 31 Oct 2012 23:15z Rumors are swirling that at least two networks have leaked e-mails about the Benghazi stand down. No definite word yet either on the media stand down order.

Former Commander of the Pacific Fleet Admiral James Lyons is one of the the most highly regarded members of the American military. He explains what was going on in Libya. We now know why Ambassador Christopher Stevens had to be in Benghazi the night of 9/11 to meet a Turkish representative, even though he feared…

Despite the storm, the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Dick Polman has an interesting election analysis, his thesis being that the “reelection of America’s first black president is imperiled because he’s doing so badly with white voters.” Is it really about race? It’s sad, but inescapable, that we have to crunch the numbers on the basis of race.…

Shit. I just turned on the news only to see major storm hysteria on both major news networks. One week before the election. I don’t mean to deny the serious nature of this hurricane. But consider the timing. This storm — which Fox just called “the Mega-Storm of 2012” –is shaping up to become the…

More at Special Operations Speaks. H/T Hill Buzz.

Commenter Aristotle120 suggest that that I give the Diplomad a look. I did and found this. “Fast and Furious” was about “proving” that America’s “lax” gun laws, and the Red State attitude toward guns fueled the drug violence in Mexico. Drug violence does not, in this view, exist because of the insatiable appetite for drugs…

The Democrats have lately been flailing away at the damn abortion issue as if it is the most important issue facing ordinary voters. They continue to conflate abortion with contraception and then frame it as a “Republican war on women” — which (yeah, this is old) not only mis-characterizes the debate, but completely disregards the…

I haven’t had any time for posts today, but I want to thank M. Simon for doing what I should have been doing. (Never mind this post; just keep scrolling…)

Not me. The guy in the video. It is all about the Colorado legalization vote.

From an e-mail: After today, there are just 10 days left until Colorado can make history by becoming the first state to regulate marijuana like alcohol. I’ve been working on this issue in Colorado for six years now, and I can’t even begin to explain to you how excited I am now that victory is…

The father of Tyrone Woods, a Navy SEAL who was killed in the terrorist attack at the American consulate in Benghazi speaks out. Funny, but I feel like Tyrone is one of my men and I am responsible for him. Must be my old Navy training kicking in. Or the FORCE giving me a kick.…

Obama revealed and unraveled. You can watch the whole hour of video here for free. The Hope and The Change. Pass it on. Especially to people you want to vote against Obama. Or at least stay home.

In a brief post last night, I mentioned the attempt to demonize Mitt Romney (and the GOP in general), and how it has been remarkably unsuccessful. I see Romney’s likability as a major factor. Well, this morning I learned about a line of attack that Barack Obama and the countless talking heads seem to have mostly…

Romney is such a square that the Democrats are having an impossible time of it trying to come up with a scandal. The decades-old divorce testimony (said to be an “October surprise“) amounts to nothing but an opinion about the price of stock, and the supposedly “scandalous” pictures of him as a prep school kid…