Cash for Clunkers Returns
Bad ideas set bad precedents - the thing usually gets done again, or gets expanded on. So it’s no big surprise that Colorado has decided to emulate the federal “cash for...
Helmet Laws
If you ride a motorcycle, "the law" - that is to say, busybody people who write them - probably requires that you wear a helmet when you ride. If you don't,...
The Lights Go Out in Cali… and Maybe Not Just There
Americans got a glimpse of the Green Future last week - and it was pretty dark.
Deliberate power outages have left millions of people in California with no lights - and no way...
Binding Little Jeff
In some states, it is illegal to drive faster than 70 on the highway. But in Texas, you can legally drive as fast as 85 on some highways. Because the federal government no...
What’s It All About?
The question is on every thinking person's minds - though the answer varies. What is this all about?
The Push for the Jab?
The most benign explanation is that they - the pharmaceutical...
Run Amok Cops; Don’t Tase Me, Bro’!
When I was a young editorial writer at The Washington Times back in the early 1990s, I had the good luck to work in the same office as Sam Francis. ...
Warring on Some Drugs
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...
The Power Suck
EVs are powerful. Everyone knows about the "instant" acceleration.
Few know about the constant draw.
You can leave a gas or diesel-powered vehicle parked for weeks - months - and it will have...
Mockery is the Best Medicine for Drug Pushers
You have probably heard the term, drug pusher - most often used in the context of the generations-long "war" - as assaults upon human liberty are always styled - on some...
What’s the Plan, Stan?
A useful measure of intelligence is future-time orientation - i.e., thinking about what might happen tomorrow (and next year) and taking steps to prepare for it.
In the past, this meant making...