Conservative (but libertarian leaning) columnist David Harsanyi wrote an article for Reason a couple days ago called “The Ron Paul Delusion, attacking Paul as not being a serious thinker and a poor leader for both conservatives and libertarians. The whole piece is worth reading, but here’s the nut of it: Perhaps the greatest tragedy of [...]
Archive for November, 2011
I’m quite a bit late on this one, but a couple of weeks ago, the Missouri Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill that would essentially shut down all strip clubs in Missouri. The bill would ban strippers from, well, stripping, because it would would require them to be at least partially clothed, and even when partially [...]
It seems every year when the Conservative Political Action Conference rolls around there is something that infuriates me enough to fire off an angry blog post, and this year is no exception. But first, the good news: Ron Paul won the CPAC presidential straw poll with 31 percent of the vote, compared to three time [...]
The nice way of explaining this: a person’s answer to a question is very dependent on how that question is phrased. The more accurate way of explaining it: people are fucking stupid. Mascots are officially out of control. Return to the web of the mid-1990s with this Congressional campaign website. Also, prepare yourself for a [...]
An article in the St. Joe News highlights the accomplishments of federal stimulus dollars in Northwest Missouri: Missouri’s 6th Congressional District, only two of whose 26 counties gave electoral majorities to President Obama, got more than $314 million last year from the federal economic stimulus program. [...] In Plattsburg, Mo., a $1 million stimulus grant [...]
As many residents of Saint Louis are aware, there has been a coyote wandering through Tower Grove Park for more than a week. As someone who lives very close to the park, I demand the city of Saint Louis take swift and drastic action to drive the beast from our midst. The city should establish [...]
Radley Balko got to do something he rarely gets to do in his Reason crime column this week by reporting about an instance of the police’s strong arm tactics being restrained: The New York Times reported last week that the New York City Police Department has halted the use of “flashbang” stun grenades. The department [...]
And surprisingly enough it’s in a conservative magazine. Kudos to the American Conservative for running Ron Unz’ cover article on the myth of immigrant crime in their latest issue (full disclosure: I have a review of Superfreakonomics in the same issue, but it is not online yet). Unz pretty definitively shows that Hispanic immigrants are [...]
Look at this long enough, and you will be driven mad. Dogs! (Link via The Agitator.) What the Super Bowl would look like if directed by famous film makers. My favorite is Wes Anderson, and I’m not sure the David Lynch one is all that accurate, but still… (Link via Marginal Revolution.) This would have [...]
Some legislators in Jefferson City are trying to ban a drug called K2. The Post-Dispatch’s Political Fix blog explains the situation: Legislators say the spread of K2, a “herbal incense” more commonly referred to as a synthetic marijuana, is an epidemic. Missouri state Rep. Ward Franz, R-West Plains sponsored a bill that would add K2 [...]
