Capital Punishment
Radley Balko has commented on one reason to oppose capital punishment – it costs far more than incarceration. Like me, he has other reasons for opposing capital punishment as well and plans to outline...
Author: James Landrith
Derbyshire Nonsense
Let me start off by saying this, and I mean it from the bottom of my heart – John Debryshire is a first class loon. Over at Stand Down, Julian Sanchez has posted a...
Rational Review News Digest
For those of you missing your daily news links from Free-Market.net, R. Lee Wrights has some relief for you: Sadly, Free-market.net has now ceased operations, but you can still receive the latest freedom news...
Bless the Blogs, Every One
Bruce Bartlett on the art of the blog for TownHall.com: As the new year begins, I want to start by giving thanks for something that happened last year: blogs. Blog is short for web...
Movie Overload
Over the last 3 weeks, I saw several movies. First, I took the knuckleheaded five year-old to see The Wild Thornberrys Movie. If you have a knuckleheaded five year-old, take the kid to see...
Privacy Phobic in Portland
Chris Lydgate and Nick Budnick of the Willamette Week Online dig through the trash to get the goods on some top Portland officials with no respect for privacy: It's past midnight. Over the whump...
Herb Ritts
Herb Ritts, one of the best photographers of the last half of the 20th Century has passed away. For years, you couldn't pick up a copy of Rolling Stone without seeing some Ritts photos....
Savage Stupidity
I don't usually listen to much talk radio, but I accidentally found myself sucked into a few minutes of Michael Savage's show yesterday around 11:40 pm. I know better than to listen to such...
2003, A Space Odyssey
Alan Boyle of MSNBC reports on The coming year on the final frontier: EARTHLY QUESTIONS dogged most of the developments having to do with space during the past year: Would cosmic ambitions have to...
Nonstandard Deviations
Cathy Young in Reason on Nonstandard Deviations: It's amazing to think that in the United States in the 21st century, you can get arrested for something you do in your bedroom with a willing...