I happen to be a serious poker player, online and live. I don’t play all the time, but enough to know the online world and its place in the larger poker scene very well. This action by the Feds is stunning to those of us who play in a number of ways that should be [...]
See this from Downsizer Dispatch D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h Congress passed fewer laws in 2009, but they were nearly three times as large! Please send Congress a letter telling them to stop bundling unrelated legislation by passing DownsizeDC.org’s One Subject At [...]
Bernanke gave a speech this morning in which he called for more regulation to prevent prevent ‘bubbles’ from occurring. He went on to say that he didn’t believe that the Fed’s monetary policies were the cause of the recent housing bubble. For those of you who have been keeping track of this, I imagine you [...]
I’ve seen the ranting on right-wing sites about Obama’s executive order granting immunities and privileges to Interpol. The line of thinking is this is just another step in subjugating the U.S. to international law, and that the “police officers” of the Interpol will be free to operate with impugnity, in the U.S. , out of [...]
Perhaps our federal government is just too busy meddling in health care, or energy or making sure that bailed-out bankers can still get huge paychecks, but really, I cannot believe what I’m reading about the terrorist attempt that barely missed killing three hundred or so Americans on Christmas day! We need to be outraged by [...]
I’ve spent years trying to understand the case for Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) and the substantial criticisms of it. I’m a skeptic, so I’ve listened to the criticisms, hoping to find the truth and while I’ve seen valid criticism by the likes of Roy Spencer, Patrick Michaels and Richard Lindzen (to name but a few [...]
December 15, 1791. A group of mostly rich, white men created a document that enobled the human condition in a dramatic way by passing the Bill of Rights (maybe being rich, white and male don’t exclude one from doing good after all?). While the U.S. constitution itself embraced the concept of individual sovereignty quite broadly, [...]
That’s right, just in case you had any doubt whether federal bureaucrats were out of touch with the rest of us, here comes this gem.http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/12/11/federal-salaries-explode/ Anyone with a libertarian thought in their head should see this as a ‘canary in the mine’. It is mostly due to the unionization of government labor, which in term [...]
Click here to see a truly funny send-up of the Obama cabinet based on their lack of public sector experience. I apologize in advance as it’s fairly offensive to those of you on the left, but I think it’s so funny that it’s worth watching. For a more balanced view on Obama’s faith in social [...]
Why stop at just health care? The current debate on health care has become so detached from reality that it’s become impossible to have a rational discussion about it. Just visit HuffingtonPost or Daily Kos to get a whiff of the tone. It goes something like this. “If the current bill isn’t going to cut [...]
