The little-known story of the woman who was instrumental in bringing down the Soviet Union.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Britain’s Future
…lies with America, not Europe.
Time to restore the Anglosphere.
The Seven Most Illuminating Economic Charts
…of 2011. This is just one of them.
Life Among The Barbarians
A story of hoplophobic bigotry in New York.
The New York Times Gun Lie
…and media lies in general:
What would happen if all of the stories in the Times – or the Washington Post, or your local newspaper or television news – were subject to the sort of expert scrutiny as this Luo article, in a given day or week? What percentage of reporting would we discover is marginally biased, seriously slanted, or even fabricated?
I strongly suspect that the resulting scrutiny would reveal a dark and ugly secret that the media isn’t remotely interested in reporting the news, it’s interested in shaping the news, and your perception of the world.
Yes, and a full decade into the blogosphere, they still often get away with it.
What Happened To The Adderall?
Amy Alkon has become another casualty of the War On (Some) Drugs.
[Mid-morning update]
More thoughts from Jacob Sullum.
The Lies And Hypocrisy
…of Barack Obama. And yet many continue to defend him.
In Which Amory Lovins
…crosses swords with Don Surber. Though, actually, I think that Lovins is wielding an unsharpened Popsicle stick.
A Judicial Blow Against Tyranny
Now here’s a headline you don’t see every day. You don’t normally see oniony porcine flatulence stories this early in the week.
What Will Become A Coffee Shop?
…and what won’t? The only problem with the analogy is that I never purposefully go to a coffee shop, because I don’t drink coffee. Starbucks would go bust in a world full of me.