Month: April 2013

Gun Homicide: Compare Countries

Nobody is saying that homicides with a gun (or any other weapon or way) is a good thing. It is a life and death matter, therefore a health issue. Who wouldn’t want to reduce the numbers? There is much talk…

Theft by Taxation

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano With a tax code that exceeds 72,000 pages in length and consumes more than six billion person hours per year to determine taxpayers’ taxable income, with an IRS that has become a feared law unto itself,…

Drones + Internet = Dronenet

The Dronenet is a powerful new technology that, like the Internet, could prove to be a huge threat to your privacy and freedom. The Dronenet is a “short distance drone delivery service built on an open protocol,”  a  network of drones controlled via…

Where Police Stand On Gun Control

In March, PoliceOne conducted the most comprehensive survey ever  of American law enforcement officers’ opinions on the topic gripping the nation’s attention in recent weeks: gun control.  You can read the complete survey at this link. More than 15,000 verified…

The Republicans Did It!

Democrats shoved an unpopular, expensive, ill-conceived and poorly written  law down the country’s throat without  Republican support, and without bothering  to see whether states would want to take on the thankless and costly task of  helping the feds implement it.  …

Bloviator Chokes On Foot

I must admit up front that I have never been a big fan of Bill O’Reilly – he comes across as a pompous bully, no matter which side of the fence he throws his hat.  Being a pompous bully doesn’t mean…

The “I Feel Your Pain” Fairy Tale

As part of his 2014 proposed budget, Obama is proposing to use a  new measure of inflation,  the Chained Consumer Price Index, which  would show a lower level of inflation than the more widely used Consumer Price Index.   The chained…