Chicago’s sales tax is going up to a whopping 9%, making it one of the very highest in the country. While it’s only going up a quarter point, it’s already at a ridiculous level, and people who can’t get out to the suburbs where the taxes are lower are really paying up for shopping in [...]

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Your Home is the Government’s Castle

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Poor Oppressed 100 K Ivy League Feminazis.
This is from Heather MacDonald and she is absolutely lethal.

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Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword?

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Canadian Justices Criticize Healthcare

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Billy Graham Supports Pro-Choice Senator and Ex-President

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Character Building - July, 2004

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by Tom Glennon
There has been a lot of discussion recently about Character. Certainly, political commercials have been either emphasizing character, or questioning character, depending on whether touting their candidate, or denigrating the opposition candidate. The core values that define Character are still unchanged from those espoused by Plato. Honesty, courage, virtue, loyalty and compassion are [...]

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Supreme Court Eradicates Constitutional Principles

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Liberals and Terrorists Fume Over Gitmo

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The War That’s All About Her

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Hedge Funds Aren’t Worth The Risk: Part 3 - Poor Compensation Structure

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Supreme Court Abolishes Constitution

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We received an interesting email yesterday, including these images:

On a side note, anti-cair shows this photo on their website:

The caption implies that the terrorist pictured above is ‘unchivalrous’ or otherwise unfair in that he’s ‘hiding’ among children at the same time he is perpetrating an act of deadly violence.
I found the language at anti-cair somewhat [...]

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by Jim Kouri, CPP
Domestic and international threats have generated a growing interest in the use of less-than-lethal weapons by government and law enforcement agencies and other entities such as commercial airlines and private security companies. One such weapon–the Taser–is a hand-held weapon that delivers an electric shock via two stainless steel barbs, effectively incapacitating an [...]

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The Jailing of Judith Miller
The NYT writes:
The case was about the “outing” of an agent - supposedly covert, but working openly at C.I.A. headquarters - in Robert Novak’s column two years ago by unnamed administration officials angry at her husband’s prewar Iraq criticism.
To show its purity, the Bush Justice Department appointed a special counsel to [...]

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Many people cite Jefferson for the “wall of seperation” doctrine regarding religious matters and its relationship to the state. This interpretation is novel and interesting, but unconvincing. (At the founding the official state church of Massachusettes was Puritanism and that was A-OK). The real development of this doctrine was in the 1940s [...]

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This is an interesting piece.

“I don’t need to have kids to create mini-me voters: I get classrooms full of other people’s kids,” writes Bill Savage of Northwestern University. “…Loyal dittoheads will continue to drop off their children at the dorms…And then they are all mine.”

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