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At Reason, A. Barton Hinkle looks at the dangers of militarized law enforcement: The paramilitary approach to law enforcement flies in the face of the idea that the police and the citizens are on the same side. Officer Friendly, strolling the block in a blue uniform and playing a paradiddle with his baton on a…

I’m really curious about this point made by commenter jmo3 at Megan’s place. Many countries do provide more generous benefits but they do it through substantially higher taxes on almost everyone. As just one example Denmark provides quite generous benefits – they also have a 200% on cars such that a stripped Corolla starts at…

I’m a 56 year old man who sometimes enjoys contemplating the beauty of ruins. I don’t want to say that I “celebrate the beauty of decay” because that might sound decadent and distract from my purpose here, which is to stick to an activity considered normal and wholesome. Contemplating the beauty of ruins is certainly…

The TSA (Transportation Safety Administration) has decided to block — as “inappropriate for government access” — all Internet websites which contain “controversial opinion.” I have no idea whether that would include ClassicalValues.com. Are the opinions here controversial? What does that mean? An opinion that is controversial? Or an opinion about a controversial issue? Or are…

Gerald Posner examines the horrendous bureaucratic flaws that allowed Nigerian terrorist bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to waltz onto an incoming flight to the United States, and asks a question on many people’s minds: How did someone whose father, the recently retired chairman of Nigeria’s First Bank, apparently warned American embassy officials several weeks ago that…

Glenn Reynolds raises the unsettling question of whether there’s a bad driving gene. I have long suspected there’s some explanation along such lines, but it now appears that there’s some scientific evidence for it: People with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test than people without it –…

A big FBI shootout at a Detroit mosque is the subject of huge headlines Radical mosque leader killed in FBI shootout Feds say goal was Islamic nation in U.S. on the front page of today’s Detroit Free Press. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, Imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, was killed when he fired at…

Speaking of WorldNetDaily, the place has become almost a full time Birth Certificate Truther site. This morning I counted no less than eleven articles devoted to the subject at their front page. The crux of the matter is the claim that the Hawaiian birth certificate — which the state asserts is a legitimate record, and…

While he claims to be seeking world peace, Waafa Bilal (creator of the Bush assassination video game that’s generated controversy) strikes me as a seeker of pseudo-martyrdom for profit. In this interview, he claims that the Americans killed his brother and his father died from the grief, and that he’s letting himself be shot with…

Working New Hampshire police officer Bradley Jardis confronted Senator John McCain on November 25, 2007, at a Presidential Campaign stop at Franklin Pierce College in Ringe, New Hampshire, about Senator McCains’s support for The War On Drugs. Here is the transcript: Bradley Jardis: I have served here in my state as a law enforcement officer…

My unending quest to determine precisely what it is that constitutes morality takes a lot of twists and turns, and one of my major complaints is with the constant manufacture of new morality. Well, it’s Sunday, and time for the latest dish of manufactured morality. In this case, the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer…

Jim Webb held hearings on The Mass Incarceration of American citizens. America imprisons a larger percentage of its citizens than any other country in the world. Lets look at the figures. These are from 2005. America 737 per 100,000. Russia per 611 per 100,000. Cuba 487 per 100,000. China 118 per 100,000. Canada 107 per…

The symbolic meaning of owning a gun is to reclaim political power, demonize minorities, distort the issue of crime in America, express contempt for women gaining access to power, and distract Americans from the real issues of democracy. So says BuzzFlash in a review of a book I think I’d prefer not to read. It’s…

Instead of focusing on putting criminals away or taking away the guns they are prohibited from having, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Johnson (now “suddenly” embattled) continues to blame guns, and in a maneuver which I think is clear grandstanding, is now seeking help from the Nation of Islam-affiliated Millions More March organization. (Grandstanding works, for the…

Conditioned as people have become to endless “quagmire,” “when-do-we-pull-out” thinking, many Americans seem to have trouble adjusting even to the possibility that after all this time, operations in Iraq might be paying off. Success in the war in Iraq? The very idea sounds like rank heresy to most leftists, and most war supporters who talk…

“(expletive deleted) Of course, I am not dumb and I will never forget when I heard about this (adjective deleted) forced entry and bugging. I thought, what in the hell is this? What is the matter with these people? Are they crazy? I thought they were nuts! A prank! But it wasn’t! It wasn’t very…

I have tried to avoid getting sucked into the maelstrom of debating and finger-pointing which one lunatic has managed to generate, but it’s just springing up everywhere. It’s as if Seung Cho has succeeded in indicting society (which was his goal), for now that the waiting period is over, everyone gets to play Jerry Falwell…

In a post titled “What constitutes homophobia?,” Clayton Cramer links to a post by Second Amendment blogger Progun Progessive, who is indignant over Cramer’s link to an explicit “safe sex” flyer which has been faithfully reproduced and criticized at the anti-gay “Americans for Truth” website. Oh, yes, the flyer has lots of shock value —…

I shouldn’t put people down for suffering from battle fatigue, as I am often prone to fits of what can best be called Culture War fatigue. The interesting thing about this fatigue is it’s what led me to start this blog nearly four years ago. Well, I started it nearly five years ago, only to…