Absence is to love what wind is to fire;
it extinguishes the small,
it enkindles the great.
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It’s about the fact that neighbourhood beat cops have been replaced by men in riot gear driving tanks. It’s about the fact that dogs might be killed by American police officers as often as one every 98 minutes. It’s about the fact that a twelve year old playing with a toy gun is shot dead in a state where carrying a gun is legal. It’s about mentally ill men being shot by the police, firing squad-style while armed with only a pen.
It’s about stop-and-frisk programs. It’s about the fact that more people are killed by police in Utah than by gangs. It’s about grandmothers and veterans being shot more than fifty times in their own homes. It’s about babies having holes blown in their sides by grenades thrown by police.
It’s about police departments that get as much as 89% of their funding from assets that can be seized without charging anyone with a crime. It’s about states that react to death row exonerations by shutting down reviews of other cases. It’s about judges feeding kids into the criminal justice system for cash. It’s about not being able to walk down the street with your hands in your pockets because your skin is the wrong colour.HillaryMania Is in Full Bloom
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| Via Cato Institute |
Killing a Man By Chokehold Over the Victimless Crime of Selling Untaxed Cigarettes? Unconscionable...
The Bureaucratic Tsunami
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(National Review). A book about a "gender-nonconforming" environmental activist princess has been developed for schools as a way for teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements.
Of course, a Statist princess believes in the broken window fallacy.
(LFC). NASA VS. THE FREE MARKET: WHICH IS BETTER FOR AMERICAN SPACE DOMINANCE?
Ah, yes, the efforts of the Wright brothers, Lindbergh and others were not individual achievements but the results of Statist planning and design. It's sad to see an icon of my childhood reduced to crass nationalism: "Without the State, who would fly in orbit?" I think that the piece goes out of the way to concede unnecessarily a leading role for NASA and government; I know the private sector can do it better, safer, quicker, and more efficiently, competently and dependably than the public sector's reliance on the corrupt special-interest calculus of political whores on oversubscribed legalized plunder.
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Christmas At Carnegie Hall: Carol Medley
