“It’s in our interest to have a strong FDA,” said GMA (Grocery Manufacturers Association) President Cal Dooley, a former California congressman. “We need to have consumer confidence in the food products.” The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription only) that food growers, manufacturers, and grower groups are seeking tighter regulatory oversight. Why might that be? The [...]

These sick government billboards are posted all over the place in my area of Southeastern Michigan. The message is, “Don’t Serve Alcohol to Teens. It’s unsafe. It’s illegal. It’s irresponsible.” We Don’t Serve Teens is a national campaign on the part of the Federal Trade Commission. So 18-year-olds and 19-year-olds (and even 20-year-olds) are teens, [...]

Falling home prices could dent the economy. Gee, really?

Okay, okay, so I can appreciate the ongoing Lovefest for iPhone on the LewRockwell.com blog. Is it for me? Not just yet. The unit’s price (at first release), no choice of a service provider, and the lack of a hard keypad made me go Palm. Plus, I have enough iPods that I don’t desire to [...]

I love sports. So Michael writes to me and rants about the ridiculously fanatical fan fever for sports teams and how that annoys him. He believes sports fervor is a form of nationalism that breeds loyalty to the establishment. I can certainly sympathize with his point. But I’ve always thought that the bizarre notion of [...]

Courtesy of Humberto.

I thought I’d remind all of the infamous Republican defense of the Bush administration’s role in the exacerbating the housing debacle. Since housing became a main focus of the government redistributionist planners in the Bush era, we have witnessed one the most disastrous social engineering ordeals of our time. The Weekly Standard brags about the [...]

360financialliteracy.org is a website that is run by the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants). The purpose of this venture is to get member CPAs to volunteer to teach financial literacy to the twenty-something and thirty-something masses. The AICPA makes use of its member dues and volunteer CPAs to help teach the benefits of [...]

Have you ever seen the Blue Man group live? This ultra-creative outfit is captured here in this stunning performance of The Who’s “Baba O’Riley.” The gal is Tracy Bonham.

Thanks to Jason B. for the link of this video showing this raving lunatic cop pulling this unbelievable whack job. This tempermental nutcase is so full of himself, so enamoured of his badge, and so loving his police state powers that he picks on some nice kid who was sitting in a commuter parking lot. [...]