First, the legalized gangsters in the nation’s toilet raised the debt ceiling at the 11th hour so that the US government can borrow more and spend more, in spite of the looming budget carnage. Then they partied down into the wee hours of New Year’s Eve and agreed to further fleece our most productive people [...]

This story presents some insane fear mongering, as is the norm from the mainstream media. The message is that Austin, a “healthy” 17-year-old, died from the flu because he didn’t get a flu shot. The full story is not revealed, of course, but near the very end of the story it is noted that the [...]

On my way to the Mises Institute Supporter’s Summit, I just got molested by the TSA At Detroit International Airport. The gal was actually about as nice as a TSA agent can get. What boggled my mind was all of the sheeple who looked at me bug-eyed (GASP!) when I held up the line by opting [...]

The Big Agra-Big Food Complex is pouring it on in California’s Proposition 37. They don’t want consumers to know what is in the foods they manufacture that they claim are so safe. Imagine that? Yet all over the great United States, artisanal food makers are shut down and put out of business due to “improper” [...]

“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind’s capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don’t; because they all stand unequal [...]

Gordon Crovitz, in the Wall Street Journal, bemoans the liability issues that may cause us to lose out on computer technology replacing a human driver in our vehicles. He advocates computers replacing humans, and he blames plaintiff lawyers for not letting this happen fast enough. This is not as far-fetched as it may sound. The [...]

The Washington Examiner offers an interesting take on Steve Jobs – his ability to mostly say no to politics and avoid the lobby machine. Tim Carney writes: Under Jobs, Apple largely avoided the unseemly games of campaign contributions and lobbying. Consider this extraordinary fact: despite being a $100-billion-a-year company in a rapidly changing industry, Apple never [...]

The state of Michigan is going to force doctors to report the BMI of their child patients to the state. Gov. Rick Snyder plans to direct doctors in Michigan to begin monitoring the body weight of their young patients and provide the data to a state registry in one of the most extensive government efforts [...]

Rodale News is running a fantastic article by Emily Main: “Wikileaks Memos Reveal U.S. Gov’t Pushing Gene-Altered Crops Worldwide.” According to the article, currently available documents “provide interesting insights into how aggressively the U.S. State Department is pushing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) abroad.” While most of the rest of the world is flat-out rejecting these [...]

From the Wall Street Journal: Rep. Joe Sestak defeated five-term incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary election Tuesday. Mr. Specter is the third incumbent in as many weeks to lose his re-election bid in an intra-party contest. You wrinkled, old piece of totalitarian shit – good riddance.