I’ve been silently fuming for months that the new President hasn’t put pen to paper on the Rome Statute, but felt it inappropriate to call him on it during the middle of the current effort to pull the US back into the first world vis a vis health care as a human right. Well, when [...]
From el Reg:
Colonel: US Army has working electropulse grenades
From The Washington Post:
Lost U.S. Weapons May Be Going to Taliban, GAO Says
Is this what safety feels like? Brings to mind an awesome idea for a finale to Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles. Using time travel, future humans who were somehow affected by the events of the [...]
I personally abstained in the Cox vs Johnson race, as per my previous post, and voted Lib/Green in the Presidential Senatorial races, as per my previous post. Turns out that my predictions about the complete irrelevance of my vote in those races were confirmed. Each of the three races seems likely to end with a [...]
The Washington Post recently put out a piece about the declining health of Cheney. This raises a question that I’ve always wondered about. Maybe someone knows the answer:
What happens when a lame duck president or veep kicks the bucket? In those cases where the Presidency is staying in the party or, even simpler, going straight [...]
Johnson’s stats from the current Congress:
Number of sponsored bills: 8
Number of co-sponsored bills 161
Number of sponsored bills passed: 0
Number of co-sponsored bills passed: 9
Our remarkably unsuccessful four-term Congressman in the fifteenth Congressional District in Illinois seems shockingly… well, unsuccessful this time around. If this fellow was a lawyer in any of our [...]
Being registered in Illinois where Obama won the Senate race by a 30-point margin (and lost in my home county by the same), there seems to be next to zero chance that the state will vote Republican for the first time since Reagan. As such, I’d be throwing my vote away if I vote for [...]
I fired off the below after reading Corey Doctorow’s recent news post about Wal-Mart’s about face on DRM. It occurred to me shortly afterwards that there may be enough consumers affected by the Yahoo, MSN, and Wal-Mart server shut-downs that we might be able to make noise enough to get a new DMCA exemption for [...]
Salon.com is reporting on dozens of protestors having their doors broken down and homes raided by assault-weapon equipped SWAT teams in the leadup to the RNC. Two or three times a week my drive to work in Nepal is marked by dozens of policemen armed with bamboo poles, assigned to perform an old-fashioned sort of [...]
http://badbarr2008.com/
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080606/0136491330.shtml
The libs aren’t even running a libertarian (small L) this year? So which of these three folk who want to strip away my fair use rights am I supposed to vote for again? Bad year for IP counter-reform. Bad year for privacy rights. Bad year for consumer rights. Bad year for folk who’d like [...]
As a libertarian I really don’t care if most of the workers of the world want to unite. That said, I do suddenly find myself a dues-paying union man. This May Day Labor Day, I suppose I am now obligated to post something that can help bring up the downtrodden, help to minimize the impact [...]
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