Hey, you know what really bothers me? When one country figures that laws passed by their legislature apply to the entire fucking world. You know who the leading proponent of that idea is? The United States. That’s right, a nation that refuses to recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court because it might place their [...]
Category Archives: American News
The death of MegaUpload and extraterritorial application of law
Posted by M.J. Sheppard on January 20, 2012 2 comments
Obama’s buy America plan not Harper’s fault
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on September 16, 2011 1 comment
It is part of the job of the opposition parties in Parliament to criticize the government. To do so effectively they need credibility and you don’t help your credibility when you blame the government for something that is clearly not its fault. A good example of this has come up recently with the Obama administration’s [...]
Poll: Who won the CNN/Tea Party Republican presidential debate?
Posted by Peter Jaworski on September 13, 2011 1 comment
They only permit four options. If you think a different candidate won the debate, go ahead and add their name in the comments. ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
Adwatch: Ron Paul’s “Revolution SuperPAC” television commercial
Posted by Peter Jaworski on September 12, 2011 3 comments
Here’s the advertisement the Revolution SuperPAC wants to run if they get enough by way of contributions: I kind of like it, although I’m not sure about the effectiveness of including a line like, “not a shill for the bankers.” What do you think? Is it effective? ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
Obama’s job plan won’t work
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on September 9, 2011 2 comments
Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute has written a nice summary of the bad ideas that can be found in Obama’s new spending plan. A temporary payroll tax cut. This is not a tax cut at all because the president would “pay for it” with tax hikes later on. And if it’s temporary, it won’t [...]
Will tonight’s Republican presidential debate be a fight between Ron Paul and Rick Perry?
Posted by Peter Jaworski on September 7, 2011 Comments Off
It started with a television advertisement. Ron Paul’s campaign team released an ad that linked former Texas governor Rick Perry with former presidential candidate Al Gore. Perry supported Gore. At the same time, the ad linked Ron Paul to former president Ronald Reagan. Paul supported Reagan’s presidential run, and Reagan endorsed Paul for Congress. They [...]
Adwatch: Ron Paul & Reagan vs. Rick Perry & Al Gore
Posted by Peter Jaworski on September 6, 2011 5 comments
The gloves are off, I guess. In this latest fancy ad from the Ron Paul campaign, Ron Paul is associated with Ronald Reagan (they were on good terms, with Reagan endorsing Paul’s run for Congress). Meanwhile, former Texas governor Rick Perry is associated with Al Gore, who wanted to “undo” the gains the U.S. got [...]
Will Gary Johnson dump GOP to run as Libertarian Party presidential candidate?
Posted by Peter Jaworski on September 3, 2011 3 comments
Before Ron Paul contested the GOP presidential nomination in 2008 and now in 2012, he was the Libertarian Party’s standard bearer in 1988. He remains a life member of the Libertarian Party, and continues to have a good relationship with the LP. Things might become a little difficult if former New Mexico governor and current [...]
Ignoring Ron Paul
Posted by Peter Jaworski on August 18, 2011 3 comments
Ever since Jon Stewart of the Daily Show raised the question, just about everyone has chimed in to give their two cents about why (and whether) Ron Paul is being ignored in the Republican race for the nomination. Here’s the clip of Jon Stewart taking it to the major media: Following that, several pundits and [...]
Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Why are they ignoring Ron Paul?
Posted by Peter Jaworski on August 16, 2011 15 comments
UPDATE: Cafferty File clip about media ignoring Ron Paul below the fold. You’ll probably see a raft of posts about Ron Paul from me in the next few months. Why? I’m starting to get that bug again, that’s why. No, not the gold bug. The Ron Paul bug. Fellow Volunteer Terrence can tell you all [...]
Adwatch: Ron Paul advert calls him “The One”
Posted by Peter Jaworski on August 16, 2011 1 comment
Here’s a really fancy advertisement put together by the Ron Paul campaign touting him as “The One” and lumping his competition together as ‘political insiders.’ It’s an effective ad. The Paul campaign is planning to put six figures behind it to run in Iowa and New Hampshire. Given his second-place finish in the Ames straw [...]
Poll: Who won last night’s GOP presidential debate?
Posted by Peter Jaworski on August 12, 2011 5 comments
We’ve put together a poll to gauge how people feel about the performance of four of the candidates for the GOP presidential nomination. (Note: The poll only allows for four options, so we didn’t include the others. If you would like to cast a vote for someone else, feel free to drop it in our [...]
US Budget Plan: fake spending cuts
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on August 3, 2011 Comments Off
So after all that the various branches and houses of the US government has come up with a deal to avert disaster, right? Nope. At best all they have done is slow down disaster just tiny little bit. For as the Cato Institute points out, under this new budgetary plan spending will actually continue to [...]
Rescuing the American federal state
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on June 29, 2011 Comments Off
Federalism is at the very heart of the American constitution and a properly decentralized federal system is important to ensuring liberty as well as offering greater choice to citizens. Yet throughout the 20th century the US Federal Government has been slowly (and in some cases not so slowly) centralizing governance and policy making in the [...]
No knock warrants
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on May 17, 2011 1 comment
A no knock warrant is basically when members of a SWAT team charge into your home without even bothering to ask for compliance. A no knock warrant is often treated like an attack upon a foreign enemy, in the same way that Navy Seals attacked Osama Bin Ladin. The difference of course is that these [...]
TSA gropes six-year-old girl
Posted by Peter Jaworski on April 14, 2011 3 comments
Here’s another wonderful example of the security state keeping us safe from the dangers that often come with six-year-old girls (who, as we know, are often used as mules and should probably always get an extra screening and a drug test and so on): Infuriating. ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
19-year-old Iowan kid makes the case for gay marriage
Posted by Peter Jaworski on April 4, 2011 2 comments
In Iowa, an effort to ban gay marriage by constitutionalizing a one man one woman requirement, has quietly died: A bill that would define a legal union as the marriage between one man and one woman has died in the Legislature. House Joint Resolution 6 would have proposed an amendment to the Iowa Constitution specifying [...]
There is a limit to American military power
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on March 24, 2011 1 comment
Last Saturday I published a post that mentioned Preble’s “The Power Problem: How military dominance makes us less safe, less prosperous, and less free.” I regard it as a must read for anyone interested in American foreign policy. If you don’t have the time to read a whole book then take a look at this [...]
When terrorist sympathizers investigate terrorism
Posted by M.J. Sheppard on March 9, 2011 3 comments
I’ve long been suspicious of legislatures using their subpoena powers to investigate matters not directly related to the functioning of the government. The only intellectual and legal basis the United States Congress has to engage in jock-sniffing exercises such as investigating steroid use in baseball is that Major League Baseball enjoys an exemption from federal [...]
What happened to the anti-war movement?
Posted by Peter Jaworski on March 3, 2011 4 comments
You might be wondering what happened to that large and active anti-war movement south of the border. During Bush’s tenure as president, it seemed like there was an anti-war protest every other week. Nowadays, it’s quiet. Crickets. Reason wondered the same thing, and did a little mini-investigation. Check out their results in the video below: [...]