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Harkin praises lawbreakers/ICCI
Senator Thomas Harkin praised the communist front group Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement for trespassing and disturbing the peace on the lawn and driveway of Iowa Republican David Oman on...
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Send in the clowns…
“China, Cuba, countries where the only freedoms are those bestowed on a whim by the state — these countries jail their kids for burning the flag. We do not. America was created around dissent. Our...
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A Taste of Armageddon
The other day this episode of Star Trek came on that reminded me of the idiocy of our own war-making country. In “A Taste of Armageddon”, Anan 7, the leader of the Eminiarans, explains to Kirk that...
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Dead men don’t sue
The Ames Police Department on Monday rolled out a new strategy against speeders: shoot them dead. While some may call this tactic drastic, it does cut down on recidivism. Plus, dead men don’t sue. It’s...
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“Homeland Security” anyone?
“I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.”...
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“Poor civic hygiene”
“It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.” – Bruce SchneierSource: Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, 2000...
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“12 Years of Valor”
The Des Moines Sunday Register had a special section today about an Iowa National Guard Unit out of Ottumwa. They talk about the hardships and trials that this unit in particular, and American...
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“Senator Paul says he’s joining lawsuit over NSA policies”
The saga continues. The article on page two of the January 4 DM Register says you can join Rand Paul’s class action suit against the Obama administration and the NSA for spying on you. Yeah… in reality...
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“85 richest people own 46 percent of world’s wealth, study finds”
Reads the USA Today headline by Kim Hjelmgaard, telling us something that a lot of us have suspected for some time. In the first paragraph she puts it another way, that the combined wealth of the...
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