Politics

The air bag thing is about to get really out of hand. And really, really expensive. Apparently, it's not enough that most cars now have four (or six) air bags inside. Volvo...

Some of you may remember that episode of the original Star Trek TV series in which Kirk, Spock and McCoy pick up up a space bug that ages them prematurely. They...

The Constitution says that “cruel and unusual” punishment is not to be administered. One assumes that includes disproportionate punishment. For example, that a person who violates a traffic law not be...

Ken Mehlman, President Bush’s campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, has told family and associates that he is gay. Hello, 'Frisco! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys9xn60IBXA&feature=related Mehlman arrived at this conclusion...

We are told that being "cooperative" with armed government workers is the best way to avoid being Hut! Hut! Hutted! by them. Here's more evidence to the contrary. A Baytown, Texas man...

I know a guy, a local guy, who has an older (1980s vintage) car that he bought with tinted windows. This guy is pretty poor and makes his living driving a...

ABS can only do so much. After going gangbusters for the past several years, new car sales are skidding all of a sudden - and the industry might just end up in...

An irony of the War on Some Drugs is that legal drugs - most notoriously, the pain medication oxycodone - are more of an objective threat to people’s health than illegal...

Rolled up behind a BMW Clover the other day. Despite his "ultimate driving machine," this "driver" apparently fears driving the speed limit - or even within 5 MPH of the speed...

This is among the worst of many. The following video shows a Texas armed government worker named Ellison Collins berating a frail old man a fourth his size and probably 30 years...