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I am discussing my recent American Thinker article on Drug Prohibition over at Talk Polywell with the usual back and forth between the Social Conservatives and libertarians. I kind of recapped my arguments and the points I thought important in a comment which I think might be helpful to repost (edited) here. == I just…

Regular readers and non-regular readers, don’t miss this video! It shows our very own Sarah Hoyt winning the Prometheus Award from the Libertarian Futurist Society at WorldCon’s 2011. To see Sarah receive her award in the same ceremony in which the society awarded its Hall of Fame Award to Animal Farm is very moving, to say the…

This post was prompted by a small electric shaver going dead. I needed a single, measly AAA battery, and had only AA’s. I don’t know whether there’s a word for it (and “batteryphobia” sounds silly), but I hate batteries. I hate the way I always have to buy them for exorbitant prices, usually in a pack of…

I find it fascinating that what has gotten at least as much attention as the candidates in the Republican debates are noises made by persons unknown who happened to be in the the crowd. There was more fuss over the crowd reactions to the Texas execution rate than to Rick Perry’s opinions about the death…

A new biography claims Sarah Palin had a tryst with Glen Rice in 1987. And in case you are interested Mr. Rice is Black. The National Enquirer grabbed some details from the upcoming Joe McGinniss Sarah Palin book, and this chunk is too delightful not to share with you immediately. Apparently Palin had a fling…

Yep. The value of idiocy is rising. However, I fear it is a bubble. Wot? A French Bank is going after the Wall Street Journal for Euro failure opinion piece. Evidently they are not aware of the American Constitution. Namely the First Amendment. Something about freedom of speech I hear. Reuters has a tit bit.…

Texas Southern University is hosting a conference on The Criminal Justice System and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): The Impact on our Social Structure. Here are some of the topics that will be discussed: Who profits from the Prison System? Criminal Justice System: The Rise of the American Prison Empire The Prison subculture And if…

Commenter Frank was discussing the upcoming election at Instability Is Becoming Unstable. Here is what he had to say (corrected by his correction). The signs for future domestic turmoil in this country are becoming apparent. And they are being surreptitiously directed. From the union takeover of the Wisconsin state house, to the bused in union…

I’ve blogged a lot about SWAT Team abuses over the years, and so has M. Simon. Because of my opposition to the Drug War, a lot of what I have said has been in that context. While I have often argued that SWAT Teams should not be used for routine law enforcement, a post I…

Turkey is seriously saber rattling with Israel. Why you ask? The usual reason. Economic problems at home. …the Turkish market has lost two-fifths of its value in dollar terms, and the Turkish lira has fallen farthest of the world’s major currencies, close to its 2009 crisis low. Turkey’s financial unraveling has only begun. On March…

Instability in the Middle East is nothing new. It is a feature of the region. So where is it going? The always/sometimes/never reliable Debka Files reports/propagandizes/misinforms on the situation in Turkey. Both Tehran and Ankara have no doubt that the intelligence data released to them by the US military in the course of the counterinsurgency…

One of my favorite comedies is a movie from 1936, My Man Godfrey. It is definitely a depression era movie. Part of the opening dialog is – One denizen (Powell): “Prosperity is just around the corner.” Another denizen: “Been there a long time.” I guess they weren’t having a Recovery Summer then either. My favorite…

The Japanese economy is in trouble. Big trouble. While the easily amused were obsessing with choosing the best one line punchlines to describe the status quo posturing on TV in the form of another highly irrelevant political spectacle, Japan’s economy imploded, only this time for real. Unlike back in Q2 when every downtick in the…

Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Association (in which he states that the First Amendment’s Establishment and Free Exercise clauses had built “a wall of separation between church and State”) has been made at least as famous by its modern critics than its supporters. The critics argue that there is no “wall of separation,” and…

I have an article up at American Thinker The Democrat’s 2012 Victory Plan. It covers all the stuff you have seen here plus a few extras. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Zero Hedge reports. …when it comes to downgrade reviews the rating agencies are notorious for being as unpredictable in their timing as they are conflicted in their rating: for example even though Belgium was supposed to be downgraded months ago due to the fact that it continues to be the longest running modern anarchy, nothing…

My #2 son (the U Chicago graduate) sent me a link to this Chicago Reader article on Drug Prohibition in Chicago. Yes, marijuana is illegal. Yet studies show—and come on, everybody knows—that it’s widely used by all racial groups. By and large, however, black people are disproportionately getting busted for it. The ratio of black…

I usually do a nine eleven post.  It has now become fashionable to apologize at the beginning of these.  I have no intention of doing so.  No, I have not gotten over it.  No, I don’t think I ever will. Nine eleven was not a sudden, cataclysmic devastation of the sort that comes out of…

Except I can’t help it. For the past few hours, I’ve been watching coverage of the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. It has been very moving and brought tears to my eyes. However, there doesn’t seem to be much of an acknowledgement of the fact that the war is not over. I may…

My friend Frank sent me an e-mail with a link to the following analysis of the Drug War. Mexico, which neither produces nor uses a lot of drugs, lies between Colombia, which produces vast amounts of drugs, and Americans, who want vast amounts of drugs. Washington does not want Americans to have vast amounts of…