The American government is at war. We have the War on Terror, the War on Drugs, and also wars against business, "hate" and food... continue reading »

It’s great news that our military finally killed Usama bin Laden!

Justice has been served, but I’m uncomfortable with some of the reaction. I agree with what Radley Balko writes:

There was something unsettling about watching giddy crowds bounce around beach balls and climb telephone poles last night, as if they were in the lawn seats at a rock festival. Solemn and somber appreciation that an evil man is gone seemed like the more appropriate reaction... continue reading »

The anti-war movement was all over the news before President Obama was elected. But apparently they weren’t really anti-war ... they were just anti-President Bush. Two college professors just released a study of national protests between 2007 and 2009. What did they find?

… After January 2007, the attendance at antiwar rallies roughly the tens of thousands, or thousands, through the end of 2008... continue reading »