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A friend of mine pointed out a post on a political forum, and I thought I’d take the opportunity to clarify a few points that the original author seemed to overlook:
However, the core problem with libertarianism is that the philosophy refuses to acknowledge that our rights come God (like the Declaration of Independence states).

The [...]

It should be interesting to hear how this plays out.  Note the careful choice of words - he wasn’t caught in a “sting”, the media says he was part of a “ring”.
Federal prosecutors last week arrested four people in connection with an expensive prostitution operation, the Times reported.
A person with knowledge of the case [...]

Everybody hold your breath.  Warmists conclude that a radical approach is the only way to force nature to our whims.
This sort of thing is the pinnacle of arrogance.  First, it assumes that Earths climate at the moment is perfect.  Second, it assumes that humans (who never make mistakes) should devote endless resources to the task [...]

Ohio has been seeing it’s share of presidential campaign ads on TV.  Mostly from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in my market.  I’ve found a few of the ads to contain troubling authoritarian messages.
Take for example Obama’s “Choices” ad with footage of him at the 2004 Democratic National Convention:
[applause] It is that fundamental belief: I [...]

My brother sent me a link to The Consumerist which had some interesting articles on individuals being assertive about their liberties. 
I found one story to be especially interesting for a number of reasons such as the customer’s attitude toward an ignorant police force who needlessly harassed him, and the way the media portrayed [...]

A neighbor sent an email supposedly from Dick Morris with the following assertion about Hillary Clinton:

3. She wants to grant constitutional rights to enemy combatants captured on the battlefield.

Hillary may “want to grant constitutional rights”. Unfortunately, she can’t - nor does the Constitution “grant” rights. If a person takes the time to read the [...]

From an article circulated amongst my family members:

Oberstar said the discovery of the Ohio bridge problem and its similarity to what happened in Minneapolis should renew concerns about the nation’s bridges. He said it underscores the need for a bill he’s sponsored that would increase the number of bridge inspectors around the country, as well [...]

I recently came across a Letter To the Editor (LTE) in the Toledo Blade, here it is:
2nd Amendment is about collective right
In The Blade’s Dec. 27 Readers’ Forum there was a letter headlined “Other amendments suffer in 1939 ruling.” The letter writer questioned if the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is a collective right, [...]

When the Federal Assault Weapons Ban was due to sunset, Bush explained that he was in favor of the ban and that if the Congress passed a renewal of the bill, he would sign it.
I asked my pro-Gun Republican friends what they thought about that, and the consensus was that - for political reasons - [...]

Of course we can’t eliminate the possibility of an elaborate government disinformation plot, but stories like this seem to indicate that encrypted data security is alive and well.  Here’s the meat:
For more than a year, the government has been unable to view drive Z.
A government computer forensics expert testified that it is “nearly impossible” to [...]

I knew it’d be raining when I woke up - and it was.  Wife was up late working on a school project - no idea how late though, I don’t speak snore.  I turned in at about 1:00a after reviewing some documents for friends and doing a little financial planning.  Slept through "In Rainbows" on [...]

This week MSNBC started an in-depth, long-term study of public perception of views of the candidates with R’s and D’s next to their names (hopefully as some drop out they’ll throw in a few independents and alternative parties). It’s called the “Candidates + Issues Matrix” In the mean time we see quite a pretty [...]

It’s interesting working downtown.  Yesterday, while waiting at a COTA stop, a grubby looking guy on a bike coasted by on the sidewalk and said to me "Hillary Clinton wants to kick in your nutsack!"
He was probably right.

In a recent article on the Spam problem and one mans ideas to fix it, ZD Net contributor David Berlind advocated an unimaginative approach to solving the problem.
We have to go back to square-one on e-mail and rebuild the entire system. Who is in a position to do this? Basically, all it would take would [...]

Today I was out volunteering my time canvassing for a presidential candidate.  I was delivering fliers to people on a list of reliable party voters in my neighborhood and it had been relatively uneventful aside from the occasional “Good afternoon” exchanged with passing neighbors out for walks. 
As I was climbing the mile-long hill out of [...]

Last week in it’s ruling on LEEGIN CREATIVE LEATHER PRODUCTS, INC. v. PSKS, INC., the US Supreme Court took the position that anti-trust laws are not designed to protect the consumer, but instead, manufacturers.  Here’s an excerpt:
A single manufacturer?s use of vertical price restraints tends to eliminate intrabrand price competition; this in turn encourages retailers to invest [...]

A few days ago I was informed that imeem would be discontinuing it’s encrypted chat client so I started using Skype as my IM client for encrypted conversations, file transfers, etc.  It has a few other interesting features that I figured I’d try out.Â
One of the features is the ability to host a "Public Chat" [...]

You asked what I thought of Fred Thompson. He seems to be the Obama of the Republican party - he has a lot of fans, but the supporters I’ve spoken with seem unable to articulate exactly why he’s so great. He *is* an actor, and a pretty good one as anyone who saw [...]

In the Dem Presidential Debate from New Hampshire last night, CNN debate moderator Wolf Blitzer asked candidate Hillary:

Senator Clinton, you voted in favor of every funding for the U.S. troops since the start of the war until now. And some are accusing you and some others of playing politics with the lives of the troops. [...]

As an Engineer and scientist, I’m irritated by the intentionally misleading statements of the government regarding the JFK Terror Plot.

MSNBC Said:

Federal authorities announced Saturday they had broken up a suspected Muslim terrorist cell planning a “chilling” attack to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing [...]

Readers of The Lantern spoke out Monday in a poll that asked “Do you think concealed carry should be allowed on campus?”

Final results were:

 

Yes. 

62% 

 

No. 

38% 

 
 
 

 
 
This follows a referendum about a year ago where 25% of voters asked Student Government to lobby the statehouse to lift the statewide ban on campus CCW. Students are aware of [...]

It’s official, Ron Paul has more YouTube subscribers than Jesus.

Here’s the list as of 9:59a today:Paul - 5,679Obama - 5,678Clinton - 2,998Edwards - 2,750Romney - 1,977Kucinich - 1,685Giuliani - 1,370McCain - 1,233Gravel - 824Richardson - 756Biden - 582Hunter - 381Dodd - 221Huckabee - 187Tancredo - 166Brownback - 86Gilmore – 40

Only Brownback and Gilmore have fewer [...]

I’ve noticed some increased coverage of “Unity08″ in the Main-Stream Media (MSM) lately, so I thought I’d take a moment to shed some light on the organization. I’ll start with their own description from the Unity08 website:

What We Believe

Unity08 believes that neither of today’s major parties reflects the aspirations, fears or will of the majority [...]

A few days ago I received a letter from Senator Barack Obama’s campaign asking for funding. I’m including a reply below that you may wish to use in the event that you also receive a postage paid envelope and a request for donations to this man.

 
Senator Barack Obama

Obama for America

PO BOX 802798

Chicago, IL 60680-4263

Dear [...]

It’s hard to watch the news anymore without seeing bemused analysis of how Sanjaya Malakar manages to stay on American Idol. The contestant is known for his unique hairstyles and singing off-key. Perhaps his greatest appeal to his base is his ability to undermine the establishment.

As you may have noticed, the Republican party’s version of [...]

“You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get to be men they forget even more. Liberty’s too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their [...]