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Relevance: 20% Posted on: February 26, 2008
Since leaving Congress, Dick Armey has been promoting smaller government as a private citizen. Armey’s organization FreedomWorks recently alerted supporters to a perverse power play in the Georgia state legislature: Payback by House Speaker Glenn Richardson against a conservative caucus called the 216 Group. It seems Speaker Richardson wanted a…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: October 15, 2012
When I think of Oregon, I often think of Don McIntire. Last Friday, 74-year-old Don died from a heart attack suffered at home. I knew him as a great storyteller, with a Mark Twain sort of wit. But McIntire was best known in the Beaver State as a longtime taxpayer…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: November 2, 2012
A scientist does not kill anybody by failing to predict an imminent earthquake, even if he believes and says that it is unlikely to occur just before it does occur. Non-omniscient seismologists don’t kill people; earthquakes kill people. Nevertheless, Judge Marco Billo sentenced six Italian scientists and a government official…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: September 15, 2011
According to Adam Gopnik, at the New Yorker, many of my readers and I hate cathedrals. Well, he alleges that we oppose “beautiful new airports and efficient bullet trains” (not cathedrals, exactly) for the same reason that “seventeenth-century Protestants hated the beautiful Baroque churches of Rome” — as “luxurious symbols…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: May 27, 2018
Something about Democrats and death — click on over to Townhall.com. Then come back here: NBC News: Congress OKs letting terminal patients try unapproved drugs Common Sense: Hooray for Congress! Goldwater Institute: U.S. House Joins Senate in Passing Right to Try Law, President Pledges to Sign Bill Bloomberg: 'Right-to-Try' Drug…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: March 3, 2015
Worried about its costs, Netflix has asked millions of customers to support so-called “net neutrality” policies to curtail the freedom of action of broadband companies like Comcast. Netflix, a huge suck of bandwidth, doesn’t want to have to make deals with ISPs like Comcast to deliver service to its customers.…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: November 8, 2016
“At a certain point, you have to let go for the democracy to work,” President Barack Obama told HBO’s Bill Maher last week, praising “the wisdom of the founders.” “There has to be fresh legs,” he continued. “There have to be new people. And you have to have the humility…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: December 23, 2011
“There are so many things about this story that are crazy,” according to a detailed and exasperated report at Techdirt.com, “it’s difficult to know where to start.” What story? The one you’ve probably heard nothing about. Back in late 2010, the federal government seized Dajaz1.com, a popular Internet blog devoted…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: July 8, 2015
Last week, Judge John Brown sentenced Dr. Annette Bosworth, a neophyte candidate for U.S. Senate from South Dakota, to twelve concurrent two-year prison terms . . . to be suspended provided she successfully completes three years of probation, pays the cost of her prosecution, and performs 500 hours of community…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: September 25, 2013
Senator Ted Cruz’s non-filibuster filibuster, monopolizing the Senate floor for the ninth hour as I type these words, is easy to characterize — if you are Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert. Easy to make fun of, especially when the senator read Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham as a bedtime…