Tam? Tam, where have you gone? Your blog was one of the stones on which the gunblogosphere was built. Doctors getting fed up with their profession. No surprise. Not really news. But an interesting perspective from a physician. “Who owns your children?” Bayou Renaissance Man asks after last week’s case of a family subjected to an international manhunt for disagreeing with their son’s doctors. What do you know about MaidSafe? Is this the future of communications privacy? (H/T PB in comments) Teacher arrested over school shootings — that he wrote about in novels. David Codrea notes that we don’t know…
Category: Health and Science
Why we get only idiotic reporting on guns from the MSM: one more data point. (And this from one of the reporters who was on the scene in Ferguson where rubber bullets were actually fired!) Craigslist: Roof Koreans for hire. 🙂 (H/T AG) MJR reminds me that it’s time to revisit Robert Peel’s nine rules for policing. Sort of encouraging that an MSM source ran that (even if a Canadian one). “Paper Boys.” Inside the dark, profitable world of consumer debt collection. Eeew! “Cigars, But Not Close.” Mark Steyn on U.S. police overkill. “The Low-Information Diet.” A classic from Mr.…
Okay, I get why Americans abroad with a deadly disease (and their families) would want to be cared for in the U.S. I understand that the fedgov has some obligation to protect U.S. citizens in other countries (though that’s often more theory than practice). What I don’t get is why the CDC would go out of its way to bring an incurable infectious disease to these shores. I don’t care how many “precautions” you take. We’ve seen how well “precautions” often work. “The app I used to break into my neighbor’s home.” Covert key copying goes high tech. The criminalization…
“I know where your cat has been.” Yes, even your cat pictures aren’t safe from Internet snoopers. It’s time for conservatives to stop defending the police. Actually, it’s way, way, way past time. But the article is still a good beginning. (H/T Sipsey Street) Sometimes early birds are too early. But ohboy do I understand wanting to “pick up the bucket” just to cross it off the to-do list. That was a monster body blow Obamacare took yesterday. Not likely to be fatal, though we can hope. I don’t know who did it or why. But the elaborate white-flag operation…
The Corleone family on Wall Street. 🙂 Gobsmacking. Yet somehow utterly unsurprising: vials of smallpox just stashed away, unrecorded, unremarked, and forgotten in government facility. Another marvelous cautionary tale from MamaLiberty. Officer Friendly strikes again. (Via Say Uncle) Elephant tears (of joy). I don’t know how true the part about the tears is, but the story is still … liberating. (H/T Jim B in comments)
A different way of fighting addictions. Article is a little vague on whether these newish ways are more effective than the old. But it’s certainly good to see the old “you’re helpless, forever sick, and dependent only on a higher power” model of treatment getting some competition. Kim Jong Un is terrified of … poor-quality imitation Moon Pies??? Well, take it with a grain of salt, but stranger things have helped bring down tyrants. Yes, some cops should be charged with murder. And conspiracy. And attempted coverup. And … Obama The Great. Or why he thinks he is and is…
I guess this has been around a while, but I just saw it: David Codrea’s Physician Liability Form. Print this out and hand it to any boundary-violating doctor who tries to poke into your gun ownership! I found that via Kurt Hofmann who delivers a hearty smackdown to Mike the anti-gun “Gun Guy.” Anti-gun Mike’s latest BS is that the doesn’t think disabled people should be “allowed” to defend themselves. Speaking of people who want to determine what’s good for you, the push to data-mine more of our health info is getting stronger and creepier. Larry Page of the increasingly…
The government has finally gone too far! (Says Jim Bovard, a man who’s fond of a good cheap cigar.) Why time seems to speed up as we get older and some creative ways to slow it down. I hope Tesla’s recent bold move of open-sourcing its patents pays off. History and a good guess says it’s likely to greatly benefit the electric vehicle industry as a whole, but not Tesla, specifically. Off-grid goes upscale. Especially offshore. The naked self-interest of the managerial state. No surprises, but telling, nevertheless. 50 photos from the past that’ll get you thinking.
The middle class is even more screwed than the numbers show. Could the mythical cancer wonder drug be on the horizon, or is this just another typical bit of overhype? Concept seems good: turn your own immune system against the cancerous invader. Forensic “science” isn’t science. The NSA now claims it’s too big to comply with a court order. Aw, the poor Clintons. Don’t you just weep for their desperate financial struggles? This is nice. Twins joined at birth became co-validictorians of their high school graduating class. Whew! One more apocalypse averted! The backlash against police militarization heats up. Okay,…
Some women. Are scary. Young, naive, idiotic women, I hope. But still … Carl-Bear riffs on my recent JPFO “Gunowners as terrorists” piece. Nice job, Carl. Jeez Louise, cheeseheads. What did you expect to happen once you grudgingly tolerated a little “reasonable regulation”? Fasting for three days can regenerate your immune system. Well, at least it’s creative thinking: Detroit should pass a homestead act to fight blight. Hm. So how do I get an order to prevent Feinstein’s body guards from buying or possessing guns? Clearly they must be dangerous loons to work for a person like that. What happens…