- Pretty good WSJ article on the Institute for Justice.
- And speaking of justice (or the lack thereof), how about facing 20 years in prison for feeding whales?
- A businessman’s top five lessons for hard times.
- Thomas Jefferson and his bible.
- A little citywide sanity in the war on drugs.
- But enough good news. Here are a few of the new ways your privacy can be invaded this year.
- Could be worse, though. You could live in the UK.
- Or New York.
- Or you could lead a dog’s life. (H/T PT)
(Tip o’ hat to MJR who has become a link-locating super-sleuth and a big help in these deadlining days. Several people have sent interesting links or content lately and if I haven’t used it all (or used it all yet) I’ve been glad to have it and it’s taken me on some interesting explorations.)
The marine biologist is ONLY getting 20 years?!? How can this be?!! For such a heinous act as feeding whales where the whales are consuming food for God sakes! An act they probably do everyday and the Feds are going to let that slide with ONLY 20 years? They must be getting soft under such a compassionate President as Obama.
The very top comment I see on the Jefferson Bible article just illustrates why the most vocal people will never “get it”: “,i>The state atheists in the 20th century killed almost 100 million people and persecuted hundreds of millions more for being ‘religious.’”
State! State! The operative word is ignored. The State killed those people. It doesn’t matter if you claim the State’s thugs were atheists or devout Faerie Worshipers. They kill because they have a State that they can’t allow people to oppose or ignore. I am an atheist, but I am not going to kill people for their religion because I lack the religion of Statism. That’s the fatal delusion that led to the killing in the cases the commenter grasps at. Not the atheism (which is false anyway, since Nazis weren’t atheists, while Communists said they were- but both worshiped the most popular god: The State.) Argh!
Kent said it dead-on. While I don’t consider myself an atheist,I don’t consider it my place to tell anyone else what to believe. The “Godless” communist(and several other related -ists) countries weren’t-the State was their god. A not very benevolent one. Downright nasty, in fact.
Sort of indirectly, anyone with a cell phone can be tracked,at least to what cell repeater they are closest to. As I recall, there was mention of taking DNA samples of all children entering first grade, but, to me knowledge, that never went anywhere.
Jefferson rises even higher in my esteem.
What was the old saying? More people have been killed in the name of religion than for any other reason in the history of the world. I don’t think there was any mention of WHICH religion, but worship of the “state” is always at the bottom of it. The names and rituals change, but the basic evil remains. Slavery and death.