I’ve often stated that worshipping government symbolism is a sickness. Here’s another flag desecration. Only this one is an actual crime. Watch this veteran being filmed tearing down and destroying a Mexican flag – a flag hung on a private building owned by a Mexican individual. The veteran notes that he took the flag down [...]

Today I filled out my expense report for a business trip I just took. Parking at my local airport incurs a 27% airport parking tax. Out-of-town hotel taxes of 20%+. Then there’s the car rental tax. In some places, like Houston, the car rental tax is more per day than the car rental itself. Because [...]

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – For years, Marion Jones angrily denied using steroids. On Friday, she admitted it was all a lie. The three-time Olympic gold medalist pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators when she denied using performance-enhancing drugs, and announced her retirement after the hearing. So the State claims another victim in its attempt [...]

A friend of mine told me he was watching BubbleVision today (CNBC) and he saw an advertisement for the debate that CNBC is co-sponsoring in Dearborn, Michigan this coming Tuesday. He said that CNBC has pegged this debate with a theme of “economics and business.” In that light, the TV spot commented on only 4 [...]

Richard Lindzen is one of the heroic challengers to the scientific establishment on the topic of global warming, yet you don’t often hear about him. He is an an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When I picked up my October issue of Outside magazine, [...]

ABC’s World News Tonight with some great coverage of Ron Paul.

And neoconservatism is the only game in town, according to Joshua Muravchik.

This South Park bit is almost too real. I live in Macomb County, and parts of Macomb are still rather blue-collar and rednecky. Most people know that Michigan has the worst unemployment of any state, and things are real bad here for a lot of people. It’s no surprise that we lead the country (or [...]

My latest is up at LewRockwell.com: Government Planners Never Meet a Crisis They Don’t Like. It’s about the looming shutdown of the Michigan state government. It started out as this blog post, but I hated this post, so I re-hashed it for LRC. My apologies for any errors in the original blog post, before I [...]