In this clip, Newt Gingrich provides 3 ways to reduce our high energy prices (and in particular the high price of gasoline). His opinion on this echoes mine exactly, only much more articulately. Let nobody be in any doubt that the entity coming between US consumers and reasonably-priced energy is the government:
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The asinine suggestion that gun manufacturers should be coerced into coming up with ways to reduce murder rates “or else” comes in the form of an essay from Jeffrey Fagan and Stephen D. Sugarman, university professors at Columbia and UC Berkley respectively.
I say “asinine” because I find the very idea ludicrous, to such a degree [...]
A link to a great article at Reason.com which sets out - from a libertarian perspective - the historic judgment of the US Supreme Court yesterday in favor of gun rights and clarifying that the Second Amendment does confer an individual right to keep and bear arms, not only a collective one. Follow the [...]
Interesting tidbit here, from an interview I did on air last week with O’Neal Dozier, a black minister from the Worldwide Christian Center of Pompano Beach, Florida who says that Barack Obama may have left the church of Jeremiah Wright but not its theology, and thus is not right for President of the United States. [...]
Interview: John Wright & O'Neal Dozier:
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…goes freedom’s way! The Supreme Court has had the sense and fortitude to uphold the right of individual Americans to keep and bear arms, and struck down a ban on handguns in Washington D.C. This is the landmark case I discussed here…. more on the decision, and reaction, forthcoming.
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Lara A. Bazelon, to whose comments about judge Alex Kozinski I responded here, has replied to me publicly in Monday’s Los Angeles Times. I was kindly offered the final word on the matter by the Times, which I declined (I feel the news cycle has moved on and I’m not sure people are too [...]
Imus is back in trouble for racist remarks…
…the legendary George Carlin died…
…my old church is in the press…
…Lara A. Bazelon replied to me publicly in the LA Times…
…and more.
All this to talk about later today and tomorrow…
…stay tuned!
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This is the full-length version of the article that appeared in today’s LaTimes.Com (and thanks to the Los Angeles Times for publishing a shortened version of my response to Bazelon as today’s Blowback).
Alex Kozinski, the Chief Justice of the 9th Circuit Court whose private fileserver was revealed to contain pornographic images, has been the subject [...]
Check it out, another great response to the Kozinski affair by Dr. Marty Klein at Sexual Intelligence. Read on for a great excerpt:
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Gasoline prices have risen dramatically within the past number of months, and there seems no end in sight. Whose fault is it? More Americans than ever have come to the conclusion that the US government is responsible for allowing Americans to suffer high prices of gasoline, a sentiment echoed today by President Bush.
Here’s [...]
My family are visiting from Belfast so we took the boat out on Lake Havasu, which we live beside (pictured), and spent the weekend in the water (which felt great considering the 115-degree temperatures)…
I came back into work this morning, and saw these stories which interested me:
James Kirchick of the New Republic doesn’t believe [...]
This is an old one, but a good one: GodHatesIreland.com, brought to you by Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church. Best quote:
“Ireland is a land of vile, feces-eaters and anus lickers and those who have pleasure in them - all of whom are abominations to God and headed for Hell.”
Beautiful, isn’t [...]
An op-ed in today’s LA Times, the newspaper which broke the story that Judge Alex Kozinski has a stash of porn on his personal website, is one I could have written myself. I love it. It’s subtitle reads, “An apology from the 9th Circuit judge for his computer collection of porn isn’t necessary. [...]
On Monday, I reported on an obscenity trial of a porn producer who is being prosecuted in federal court here in California. Now, this amazing turn of events:
A closely watched obscenity trial in Los Angeles federal court was suspended Wednesday after the judge acknowledged maintaining his own publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos [...]
Apple’s iPhone 3G is stunning. It’s twice as fast at half the price, replacing your GPS, your PDA, your mobile phone, your iPod, even your laptop computer in many cases, with a ton of practical genius within the most beautiful package… and it’s coming to you for as little as £99 in the UK [...]
A few things worth mentioning today:
The FCC loves the idea of giving companies the frequencies in which to operate wireless internet services. They’d auction off the frequencies, like the good custodian of the public airwaves that a government agency in charge of those frequencies should. But the frequencies come at an extra cost: [...]
If you can read this, congratulations: you’re one of the minority today! Our hosting server has been having problems this week as some of you have noticed and have let me know; I don’t have any timescales on a fix but I’m becoming increasingly irritated about it and will move the blog to a new [...]
I’ve been having yet another discussion today about legalising cannabis with yet another conservative who disagrees.
His was the usual stream of thought: the fear that everyone will be potheads if the stuff is legalised, the ’slippery-slope’ arguments, the grouping of marijuana with more dangerous drugs, the linking of drugs to crime, the linking of [...]
Many of us would be tempted to think that business leaders are rational, intelligent and swayed by good reason and their own business interests.
But apparently not. A survey of UK businesses has revealed the secret to winning clients and clinching deals.
Is it good service? No
Is it a strong vision? No
Is it monetary persuasion? Alas, no.
The [...]
This is a tough time, economically, that’s for sure.
An LA Times op-ed today asks if it’s the end of the road for SUVs, and quotes some data derived from Power Information Network and published in the Wall Street Journal, data which reports that 36% of those who tried to trade in their SUV [...]
