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The new Guns and Patriots sub-newsletter of Human Events is out and there is a delightfully silly article by Jennifer Kendell entitled “Illegal Immmigrants are Career Criminals.”. It’s basically another poorly reasoned argument against any sort of amnesty for illegal immigrants and for stationing more troops at the southern border. This time, [...]

I would like to take a short break from making fun of conservative columnists in this space, to write about a story that just skipped off the surface of my own social atmosphere. A friend of a friend was driving with her two children a few months ago, and was pulled over for a [...]

The past year has seen Human Events add a new sub-newsletter, Guns & Patriots, another unasked for but most beautemous gem of conservative trash journalism. Care to guess what it’s about? Patriotic bodybuilders? Nice try. It’s actually chock full of phallic gun worship and military fetishism with columns by the likes of Oliver North. [...]

I don’t have time to fully dissect Anne Coulter’s most recent column for Human Events, but I will make a couple of quick points.
First off, it should be noted that the Constitutional rights of would be Times Square car bomber Faisel Shahzad were not “granted” by anybody, they are merely guaranteed by the U.S. government. [...]

Let the Tea Party grow. Let them collect every armchair economist, weekend warrior and quiver-full coconut and then try to turn back a century of bipartisan progress in law, society and science.

This might be a first and last sort of moment here, a once and in a lifetime moment. Ann Coulter has broken character! She’s actually written a great piece of journalism and I applaud her. This article discusses the possibility that Martha Coakley, the probable Dem replacement for Ted Kennedy, may have [...]

I found this little article on Yahoo news about Fox New commentator, Glenn Beck’s paid sponsor ship of a gold marketing company. It seems that some people think there’s a bit of a conflict of interest in advising people to buy gold as a news person and also working as a shill for that [...]

Being a part of the Human Events mailing list means getting a wealth of wonderful information and opportunities sent straight to my inbox! There’s this chick who’s trying to sell oxyclean to desperate seniors as a cure for cancer (and every other disease for that matter). And then there’s the “Dollar Destruction Defense [...]

Here’s an interesting Slate.com article by Timothy Noah that delves into what I was talking in this entry, but in greater detail. In that November 19th post, I had argued that you could look at the overall cost of health care to any society as a black box. All sorts of different [...]

I saw a bumper sticker today:

“If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it’s free.” It’s a very American statement. It’s also a very disgusting one. Let me explain.

Let us suppose for the sake of argument that the purpose of a healthcare system is to keep people healthy. That [...]