Why democracy?

Over the last month or so, people have been throwing off, or trying to throw off, the shackles of their oppressive governments. It started i...

Democrats flee Wisconsin

The Democrats have fled the Wisconsin capital to avoid an upcoming vote to deny collective bargaining rights to government workers. I think...

Against the PATRIOT Act but for it's provisions

I've been out of town for the past few days, but I read that the House passed the PATRIOT Act extensions I wrote about last week. This ...

How did (tea party) patriots act?

The House of Representatives failed to extend the PATRIOT Act provisions that I wrote about a few days ago. This is good news, but the figh...

How will (tea party) patriots act?

Here's another story that isn't getting a lot of attention. Sections of the PATRIOT Act are up for renewal this month. A renewal was...

Do as we say, not as we do

Why isn't this story getting more play? For those who don't want to watch the two minutes of video, here's a similar story from...

TSA in the news

John Pistole has put the kibosh on privatization (h/t Jonathan Adler ) of airport screening. I suppose this was inevitable. The best way fo...

The three branches of government

This was too good to pass up. Chuck's been in congress for over 30 years and he still doesn't understand the basic setup of the fede...