The Smallest Minority

I've received numerous comments and several emails concerning the general suckitude of the Echo comment system. As one put it, "If...

Polite, efficient and responsive policing is a luxury that can only be afforded by states not drowning in politically motivated entitlement ...

Josh Sugarmann, Kristin Rand, Petey Hamm, Paul Helmke, Sarah Brady et al. must be especially sad pandas about now. 2010 is barely a third ...

Y'all (Republicans) spent the first half of this decade rearranging your "family values" deck chairs while metastasizing the...

The problem is that most Americans’ trust in the ability of Congress to solve such things, or even to tackle them in a way that will not mak...

Yeah, humanity's a threat to Mother Nature. Sure. (click pic to embiggen.)

It's a stark illustration of the inequities of capitalism that organized labor can only afford to buy one political party, but Wall Stre...

Let's start out local. Front page today, above the fold, in the local Daily rag newspaper: One-third of freshmen found not ready for...

US woman sentenced to death for killing fortune teller and her daughter A WOMAN convicted of murdering a fortune teller and her daughter w...

This is the dreadful equation of socialism. Money can be used to create value, or it can fuel the exercise of power, but not both ...It is p...

The key to understanding the American system is to imagine that you have the power to make nearly any law you want. But your worst enemy wil...

Yesterday I drove up to Phoenix in order to have lunch with some Arizona bloggers and make a visit to the Usery Pass target range managed by...

The run into Chicago through Lake County, Indiana always reminds me of Frodo & Sam approaching the borders of Mordor: The vegetation ge...

I'm way behind, I know, but I wanted to get these links out. First, I strongly recommend you read the text of Vanderboegh's April ...

Can't have! (Didn't win the lottery. Some schmuck in Missouri did.) I've got the money to pay off my still-indeterminate deli...

On Tuesday this week author Jerry Pournelle wrote an interesting piece he entitled The Education Mess . I strongly suggest you read it. He...

My friend and (former) fearless leader Primeval Papa has had a rather involved discussion with a member of said Institute on the topic of ...

On Rooting for Government To Fail - Reason online, Radley Balko. Not long, so I'll quote the whole thing for my archives: The American...

Vanderleun has a short piece on his sidebar today about Texas Governor Rick Perry, from which comes this excerpt: I want people elected to ...

Harry Brown Good news. I first heard about this film back in December . It will open in limited release in the U.S. on April 30 . I want to ...