When the dollar gets too weak, and stays weak for a long time, it becomes simply another currency out in the world market. And other nations abandon using it as the preferred medium of exchange for international sales transactions —… Continue Reading
If anyone deserves an award with the thoroughly awesome name “Badass of the Week,” it’s got to be this 18-year-old Kashmiri woman named Rukhsana Kauser. Abigail Adams once wrote to her husband while he was at the Continental Congress, “Remember… Continue Reading
Why has America fallen into such desperate and horrible straits? Oh, yeah, that’s right, it’s the atheists’ fault. Or, as Doug Mataconis puts it, “Yea, it has nothing to do with all those religious people who’ve, you know, actually been… Continue Reading
Miracles of genetics. Do you like red apples or green? This farmer doesn’t have to choose.
Because until then, I am going to continue to use toilet paper and I don’t care what you have to say about it.
…So says the chief of police. Which is kind of an understatement. Dateline: Lakeland, Florida. Cops execute a search warrant, and bust in to a (suspected) drug-dealer’s house to seize evidence. While some of them search through the house, tag… Continue Reading
It would be wrong to write off Justice Stevens as “just another liberal Justice on the Supreme Court” because he is one of the most creative, original voices to grace our bench in a generation. On hot-button social issues, yes,… Continue Reading
Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California USA 2009, was stripped of her title after she spoke publicly against same-sex marriage. Yesterday, she filed suit against the Miss California USA pageant and two of its directors, claiming that she was discriminated… Continue Reading
No. Really. In England, no less. Someone complained about pornographic cartoons on lime-flavored candy so much he drove his wife she had to go sit in the car in complete humiliation while her husband berated what I take to be… Continue Reading
If you subscribe to a religion that does not instruct you to disavow science and participation the real world, fine; you are not the target of this morning’s rant. Take moral and social solace from your religion and go and… Continue Reading