The city of Madison believes that if it limits your freedom it can truly make you safer. Next up on their agenda: plastic water bottles.
The city of Madison, enamored of bans on everything from smoking to phosphorus fertilizers, may be setting its regulatory sights on another target — plastic. In [...]
Since when did playing poker become illegal?
Another Dumb Poker Raid:
Police in San Mateo County, California apparently first spent months investigating the small-stakes poker game. From this firsthand account, it looks like a couple of the officers were playing regularly for several weeks before sending in the SWAT team, guns drawn, last week. [...]
Well, the Chinese have stopped even pretending concern for the welfare of the foreign peoples to whom they export. As if shipping potentially hazardous tires, dolls, wooden art sets, and even faulty fortune cookies wasn’t enough, now they’re selling people missiles.
But Saudi Arabia, a country so renowned for being concerned with safety that it [...]
How’s this for on the job competence?
According to the lawsuit, about 9 p.m. June 15, Vega came to Guardi’s and ordered pasta salad. When Mendez walked into the cooler to get the food, Vega asked Mendez’s wife if she wanted to see Vega scare her husband. She said “no,” according to court documents. [...]
The Wisconsin State Journal reports that two homes were invaded recently, by robbers looking for drugs.
“These guys kicked in the doors of people ’s residences who had nothing to do with the drug trade, ” said Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain. “It was a terrible event for both couples. “ [...]
President Bush: “General Musharraf, you can’t be the president and the head of the military at the same time.”*
General Musharraf: “Aren’t you?”
President Bush: “…Uh… Well…. Hell. Yeah.”
My coverage of several extremely important news stories has prevented me until now from replying to the recent posts of my friend and webmaster Joe - but much like my standing up for terrorists’ rights earlier this week, I now find myself wishing I’d acted far more quickly. Perhaps I could have saved Joe [...]
Above: That is not Tony Snow. Not Depicted: Fan blowing her hair.
Below: Who cares? Not Depicted: Fan blowing their hair.
So, by now you’ve undoubtedly noticed (yeah, like fun you have) that radio and television veteran Tony Snow is no longer supplying the U.S. with its daily news from the White House. Mr. Snow vacated [...]
It used to be that a person had a reasonable expectation of privacy. Now? The government snoops on you through your children. Woe be to the person that does anything the government finds questionable.
I found this out after my 13-year-old daughter’s annual checkup. Her pediatrician grilled her about alcohol and drug abuse. [...]
We’d all do well to occasionally remember what exactly we mean by the word “freedom”.
I thought about that as I read through the Heritage Foundation’s Freedom Index for 2007, a list which rates each of 161 countries in the world according to that country’s level of economic freedom - that is, the level of control [...]