Archive for May 2007
Bostonians: Still Stupid
No, it’s not blinky cartoon characters this time, it’s a garbled fax from marketing. In a scene reminiscent of the Cartoon Network bomb scare that paralyzed the Boston area in January, police shut down a strip mall yesterday in this small western suburb after employees at a Bank of America branch mistook a botched fax…
Read MoreCongress Buys Pork with Soldiers’ Lives
Yesterday afternoon, right before they went on vacation, your 110th Congress (including the Maryland Senate delegation) decided to go against the wishes of almost 3/4 of the American people and give in to the President to pass a no-strings-attached war funding bill. As one blogger noted, there’s some goodies in the bill for the Democrats,…
Read MoreGames and Poems
Bruce Godfrey tipped me off to a nice blog post about the five games you need to play to live well. It’s a good post, and worth the read. In the section on gambling, there was a snippet from Rudyard Kipling’s poem, If: If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it…
Read MoreRep. Wayne Gilchrest on the War
Reason has an excellent interview with Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) in which he talks about the GOP, the war in Iraq, and what history can teach us. The whole thing is excellent, but I especially enjoyed the stoic overtones in his final answer: Reason: You don’t worry about another primary challenge from a Republican who…
Read MoreGun Control on the Way to the Supreme Court
The D.C. Circuit has denied a petition for en banc rehearing of Parker v. D.C., so the way is clear for the Supreme Court to hear the case. Analysis of the denial and the likely timeline for Supreme Court review. Interesting article about how liberal law professors have been instrumental in shifting the gun control…
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