“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Krugman still doesn’t get it

Normally I wouldn’t touch Paul Krugman’s periodic outbursts of moon-brained stupidity with a ten-foot pole. I leave that to older and wiser people (who also have the time to deal with such things). His latest NYT column, though, is literally a target just...

Ban the BATFE

So you’re telling me that there exists a branch of the US government’s federal bureaucracy that is corrupt and inept, sells guns to drug cartels in Mexico, hires mentally ill people to conduct sting operations and then arrests them, allows minors to take...

Protect and serve (you with a crotch-grab)

There are many perfectly good reasons to hold Republicans (a.k.a. big-government conservatives) in thorough and utter contempt; personally, I view most Republican politicians as being even less intelligent than the majority of lower primates, including the uniquely...

Release ALL the datas!

Apparently intelligence officials in the Department of Defense (can someone please explain to me how a “Department of Defense” is supposed to win a war?) are absolutely crapping their pants in sheer terror at the amount of information that goddamn...

Go on then, tell us another one, Al

By now it should be readily apparent to anyone living in the northern latitudes with a pair of functioning eyes and the ability to feel cold that the drumbeat of predictions about the Great Manmade Global Warming Apocalypse were seriously exaggerated: Professor Mike...

Come and get them, assholes

New York City’s outgoing mayor is now planning to ramp up his city’s longstanding and utterly misbegotten war against the universal right of self-defence: The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is sending out letters telling gun owners to turn over...

Speeding gets you killed…

… but not in the way you would normally think: SAN ANTONIO — A University of the Incarnate Word police officer shot and killed a 23-year-old student during a traffic stop Friday morning, just a few blocks north from the campus, according to the Alamo...

Churchianity is worse than atheism

A left-liberal Christian argues that it is possible to hold socially conservative yet fiscally liberal views simultaneously without contradiction, and as usual completely misses the point of Christ’s Ministry: Powers described her gradual progression from...

How economies die

A recent article over at Mises.org jogged my memory about the way in which an economy commits suicide: Imagine that Cuba and North Korea became, overnight, the two most free-market, limited-government countries in the world. The two countries would have immediately...