General Motors has, after its traumatic financial reorganization, reduced its branding from eight or nine different brand names to four. One of its brands, GMC, is reserved for trucks, so it has only three levels of branding available for its… Continue Reading
“A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.” — Mohandas K. Gandhi. A prisoner is utterly and completely at the mercy of the government which has imprisoned him. He relies upon his jailers for food, for… Continue Reading
Nothing in the leaked documents is substantively surprising. We all knew, or should have known, that Arab nations are very nervous about a nuclear Iran, and also very nervous about saying so publicly. We all knew, or should have known,… Continue Reading
Ahmed Ghaliani was accused of being a significant participant in the August 7, 1998 bombings of the United States embassy complexes in Kenya and Tanzania. At least 223 people were killed and over 4,000 were wounded in nearly-simultaneous suicide bombings… Continue Reading
So newly-nominated U.S. Senate candidate apparently once “dabbled into witchcraft” back in her early twenties. That sounds like a gigantic yawner of a non-story to me. There being no religious test for the holding of Federal office and all forms… Continue Reading
The audible-alarm inventory control system here enjoys the same respect that audible car alarms do on the street: none at all. Published with Blogger-droid v1.5.9
At a booze-enhanced social gathering a couple weeks ago, I met a woman who had been convicted of some kind of Federal drug offense. She was pleasant enough to talk to but when she found out I was a lawyer,… Continue Reading
Death threats are not an acceptable method of expressing your disagreement with someone else’s political point of view. I happen to like Dick Armey for his career-long status as a budget hawk, but that is totally irrelevant — like all… Continue Reading
It seems like no one gets in trouble for doing bad things. They just get in trouble for lying about it. Consider: Al Capone, sent to Alcatraz not for running guns and booze during Prohibition, but rather for lying about… Continue Reading
To say that the Presidency of Barack Obama has been a disaster from a governmental restraint perspective is the understatement of the century. Granted, the century is still young. But can anyone doubt that Terry Michael’s claims that libertarians should… Continue Reading