On Friday, Israeli security forces, Shin Bet, detained Norman Finkelstein when he tried to enter Israel, kept him in an airport holding cell for 24 hours, ordered him deported from the country, and then imposed a 10-year ban on his entry. Finkelstein, the son of a Holocaust survivor, is a Jewish-American author and academic who [...]

….”the terrible need for total war.”
Flabbergasted I am.
Nutjectivism lives.

I can see myself on American Gladiator, especially in some of the events that rely on total conditioning and/or speed, quickness, etc. I like the event where you bounce off of the gladiators to dump balls in the baskets while they try to tackle you and keep you down. The gladiators are too awkward and [...]

Claiming a need to fight terrorism is a way for the Police-Surveillance State to become empowered and grow.
The helicopter’s unmarked paint job belies what’s inside: an arsenal of sophisticated surveillance and tracking equipment powerful enough to read license plates

This caught my eye because I had meant to blog on it all week, and Nikoley beat me to it.
Some people may already know that I am a cyclist – a serious cyclist. I’ve raced or trained on the road, on the track, cyclocross, and off-road (mountain biking). I no longer race, but I [...]

Occasionally, the best blog is a blog that links to something which you want to point out, and then you say nothing more than: I am speechless.
Okay, I’m not totally speechless so maybe this isn’t the best blog.
If someone thinks that this disordered mania is superior to this powerful piece, than that someone is [...]

Read Wendy on this. Very important stuff. I’ve discussed the most minor details of food prices, for the last two years, with this gentleman. You may know Eric Englund as my sometimes writing partner. He brought back “The Hyperinflation Survival Guide” quite a few years ago, as he was way ahead of the times. The [...]

If you are going to St. Paul for the GOP convention, don’t wear your Teva sandals, have hair like a hippie, flash a peace sign, or hang out with the vegans. The feds are planting snitches and will brand dissenters as ‘terrorist groups or organizations.’
What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant

The lack of a free market for organs has long been the cause of needless deaths. And now, because marijuana is not a corporatist state-approved drug (unlike the overpriced pills pushed by Big Pharma), patients waiting for organ transplants, who smoke pot to deal with the pain, are being turned down for transplants. Medical marijuana, [...]