Thursday, March 13
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Jeremy Horpedahl is the guest editor today. |
The Speech That Eliot Never Gave
"After that, I have no idea what I'm going to do with the rest of my life, but I'm certain of this: I'll no longer earn a living by making anyone offers they cannot refuse." Column by Jim Davies.
"When people sense this and decline to vote, we cluck like disturbed hens and speak of apathy. Nope. Just common sense." Column by Fred Reed.
NSA
Shifts to E-mail, Web, Data-Mining Dragnet
“If
the reports are correct, what this transactional-data-dragnet amounts to is a
rebuilding of the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness program,
which promised to do extensive warrantless data-mining to identify
'information signatures' that could identify criminals.”
How Government Makes Things Worse
“What do ethanol and the subprime mortgage meltdown have in common? Each is a good reminder of that most powerful of unwritten decrees, the Law of Unintended Consequences - and of the all-too-frequent tendency of solutions imposed by the state to exacerbate the harms they were meant to solve.”
How Do You Define Success in Drug Enforcement?
“According
to the head of the HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area) task force in
Damn, There Goes My Meth Supply
“This
grand and insidious 'war' must be one of our greatest national embarrassments,
an enormous, unspoken failure, far worse in its way than the lost and
disgusting war in Iraq, given how it's caused more misery and more pain and
more destruction across multiple decades and nations and governments and
continues to cost countless billions of dollars and yet has, as all stats and
studies reveal, almost zero effect on the overall drug culture of the
nation.”
They Call This Intellectual Property?
The mainstream business press starts asking questions.
Feds Might Be Studying Your Finances
“Banks
and credit unions as well as currency dealers and stores that cash checks
reported a record 17.6 million transactions to the Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network in 2006, according to a report from the network, a bureau
of the U.S. Treasury Department.”
From Jack Johnson to Eliot Spitzer
“When a self-righteous crusader like Eliot Spitzer is caught with his pants down, a lot of onlookers might feel a tinge of glee to see such hypocrisy revealed. But the law under which he may be prosecuted, the Mann Act, is a relic that should give pause to anyone looking to hold Spitzer accountable in court on counts of prostitution.” The century-old federalization of vice crimes.
Better Living Through Chemical Warfare
"Keen-eyed observers of the Mad Scientist wing of the American military research complex have noted that the Pentagon is at it again."
Minn.
Rep Wants Scent-Free Schools
Shocking Death Camps for Cats Result of Beijing Olympics Clean-Up
Another reason to boycott the statist sports spectacular.
Recycling Eliminated More Than 50 Million Tons of Guilt
Satire.
Recycle or Go to Hell, Warns Vatican
Not satire.
A photo blog. (3 pages)