Archive for May 2014
Parity For Pro Choice — A Man’s Right to Choose
Reposting again because others are talking about this: “Having sex is not consent to parenthood for women, so why should it be for men?” This is a repost from a year ago. I am prompted to repost it now after reading James Taranto’s article in today’s Wall Street Journal: The Limits of Moral Suasion: Mayor…
Read MoreShocking New Evidence on Domestic Violence
This graph from a U.S. Department of Justice Study from November, 2012 sets forth some shocking new facts about “Intimate Partner” violence. [Click to enlarge] The shocking conclusions from this graph, if it’s accurate and hey, it’s from the Government, is that the safest place for women is in marriage, and the most dangerous place…
Read MoreTrouble for Hillary Clinton in 2016
Have the Democrats moved so far to the Left Hillary is now seen by the so-called and mis-named “progressives” as too centrist? That’s ridiculous to conservatives. From our viewpoint Hillary is as far left as you can get without falling over, but liberal Democrats are already so bent over for gay marriage, income inequality, and…
Read MoreYou have the right to record the police
Federal First Circuit Court of Appeals: Gericke v. Begin (1st Cir. May 24, 2014) LIPEZ, Circuit Judge. This case raises an important question about an individual’s First Amendment right to film a traffic stop by a police officer. Carla Gericke attempted to film Sergeant Joseph Kelley as he was conducting a late-night traffic stop. Shortly thereafter,…
Read MoreThomas Piketty’s data and conclusions may be, probably are, completely false
Thomas Piketty’s book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, is currently shaking the economic and political landscape at about 7.1 on the seismic meter. I have not read the book and don’t intend to do so because nobody is likely to pay me enough money. I have glanced at it on the pages Amazon will allow…
Read MoreIntelligent quote of the day
…the left has pretty much given up. They are too committed to a reactionary defense of their 50-year-old failures, or they are too busy working themselves up into a frenzy of envy aimed at anyone who is richer than they are. It is telling that in Thomas Piketty’s blockbuster book on inequality, his one big…
Read MoreTo serve and protect — Police officer stops traffic for a mama and her babies
Via rightscoop
Read MoreEnvironmentalists confused: is it global warming or global cooling that’s the problem?
Only the guy at the end gets it right. The rest think they can control the weather by recycling their water bottles.
Read MoreTodd Akin was not a Tea Partyer, and the Tea Party is not costing Republicans the Senate
David Weigel at Slate: I’d say you can only blame “the Tea Party” for a net loss of two Senate seats since 2010. That’s a period during which it helped send Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul to the upper House—during which “establishment” candidates like Denny Rehberg, Heather…
Read MoreReports of a “rape epidemic” just another “extraordinary popular delusion,” i.e., a hoax
There is no rape epidemic, at least if an epidemic is a “sudden widespread occurrence of a particular undesirable phenomenon.” It would be more accurate to say there has been a sudden decline of rape in America since 1992. Carpe Diem: From 1972 to 1992, the rate of rapes in the US almost doubled from…
Read MoreKnow what the spies are up to
Below is the most recent newsletter of the National Motorists Association. It describes how the private companies that make spy gear for law enforcement impose contract conditions on their customers which often lead to intrusions on citizens that would ordinarily require a warrant but the secrecy requirement imposed by these companies lead to infringement of…
Read MoreDudley Brown and NAGR
Dudley Brown and his National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) are either the most aggressive gun rights advocacy group in America, or a false flag operation out to destroy all gun rights advocacy organizations. Mr. Brown’s positions are extreme and his criticisms of other gun rights groups and anti-gun politicians is caustic, almost abusive. NAGR…
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