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Not content merely to demand animal rights, PETA continues to push their moral equivalency campaign. The latest is an exhibit on the National Mall: A new exhibit on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. is raising eyebrows for its contrast of slavery, genocide and animal cruelty. The display, placed by activist group People for the…

For those of you who have a schizophrenic male relative it is something you live in fear of. He has a run in with police and doesn’t respond to police commands and the police take it personally. Reason magazine has the story, plus video and pictures that are just too horrific for me to repost.…

We sure got some crazy ‘Merkins about these days. Eric is discussing a few who want to put an end to egg eating because you know – an egg is a chicken – or something. Which reminded me of a little adventure I had when I was four or five. My dad once owned a…

The first minute and fifteen seconds are commercials. Then comes a bio of the guest, Niall Ferguson, which lasts until about three minutes and thirty seconds into the video. Then you get about twenty minutes of good stuff. The video was recorded in February. In the interim it looks like there may have been a…

Animal Rights activist and longtime PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich now runs a group called “Farm Sanctuary” He is also a regular columnist at the Huffington Post, where today he  has a post in which he lobbies for a federal bill which he says would be, “the first federal law relating to the treatment of chickens…

Accustomed as I am to getting fraudulent email purporting to be from Nigerian barristers holding millions of dollars on my behalf, earlier I was surprised to receive an email purporting to come from an actual friend in real life, originating from a known and trusted email account. It was a tale of woe about stolen…

I can’t get over the idea some people have that the recognition of financial reality constitutes “terrorism,” but it isn’t just limited to angry leftist writers. The latest is Joe Biden. Vice President Joe Biden joined House Democrats in lashing tea party Republicans Monday, accusing them of having “acted like terrorists” in the fight over…

What’s more deadly to established order than “Cultural Marxism”? Why, Cultural Capitalism, of course. More than anything else, it was Western decadence that brought down the Soviet Union. Those who worry about “Cultural Marxism” (said to have been sponsored by the KGB to weaken America’s will) would do well to consider John Stossel’s recent column.…

It’s done. Prediction: the endless dishonest doomsaying from the MSM and Democrats about the USA’s credit rating (revenues were always several times interest payments so default was never an issue) will end as soon as the bill is signed into law, and they will shift seamlessly into claiming the concerns of the ratings agencies are…

I have an article up at ECN Magazine about some new innovations in chip design that look to reduce power requirements by a factor of twenty to one hundred for a given level of computing power. There is an example of this chip in production that can do over 90 Billion Instructions Per Second (BIPS)…

When I do an article on Christians and Drug Prohibition I invariably get a few Christians chiming in on how they are libertarian in political philosophy and don’t support the Drug War (good on ya mates). I’m Jewish. And a libertarian Republican. Your point is? Which is to say that I’m unrepresentative – but I’m…

Hey minarchists! If you didn’t like the debt deal, I’ve got good news: the NYT hated it even more. The deal would avert a catastrophic government default, immediately and probably through the end of 2012. The rest of it is a nearly complete capitulation to the hostage-taking demands of Republican extremists. It will hurt programs for…

PJM founder Roger L. Simon has weighed in on CPAC’s decision to kick out gay conservatives, and Andrew Breitbart’s decision to support them: …I had to speak out personally in immediate support of my friend Andrew Breitbart regarding GOProud. I too will not be attending CPAC next year unless the ban of this organization is…

HotAir is reporting this is done. I’ve been following the debt limit debate pretty closely at Megan McArdle’s and Tyler Cowen’s, but haven’t said much here. A couple quick thoughts: First, the MSM coverage has been atrocious. Straight news pieces have consistently conflated reaching the debt ceiling with default, even after it was explained in various places this was…

One of the things I noticed driving in Ohio yesterday was that gasoline prices were substantially lower than they are in Michigan. ($3.85 in Ann Arbor versus an average of $3.60 in northern Ohio.) As to why this is, I don’t know. Ann Arbor is known for high gas prices, so it isn’t representative of…

While I always stay in dog-friendly Motel 6 motels when I’m on the road, today I saw something a bit different. A Motel 7. Never knew there was such a thing, but there seem to be others. Whether it’s part of a chain, I don’t know. Darn. I never asked whether they allow dogs! Instead…

Earlier I read that the TSA is readying a “new behavior detection plan for airport checkpoints“: The federal government is planning to introduce new behavior detection techniques at airport checkpoints as soon as next month, Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole said Thursday. TSA already has “behavior detection officers” at 161 airports nationwide looking for…

The Congress (the House actually) authorizes spending. The President (effectively) signs the checks. The Social Security checks. And yes the money is there. It is in all those certificates in the Social Security Lock Box. He could start cashing those. If you don’t get a Social Security check next month it is because the President…

We do live in a society that is a masochists dream. A really weird place to be since I’m not into pain for recreation. What brought this post on is my ongoing series about Christians, ignorance, drugs, and the love of punishment. The last piece in the series An Education In Tolerance elicited some interesting…

In what appears to be an ongoing series commenter Thomas was spouting some popular misconceptions about drugs. I wanted to make more public my reply. With a few additions. Thomas, There is no such thing as addiction. If you are in pain you will take pain meds. When the pain goes away so does the…