Month: June 2003

Thanks to Tim for this story about a classy Nevada brothel. See what happens when politicians stop being meddling nannies and allow people to choose their own lifestyle? Best of luck to them, but they have a long way to go before they catch up with the Japanese.

"Special rights" for certain races/cultures/ethnicities Censorship and arbitrary imprisonment of non-crimes such as sexism, "heterocentrism", "ableism" etc. Arbitrary redistribution of wealth on the basis of wealth, race, success, etc "Reasonable" slave-reparations plan State-worship replacing God-worship (note: I don’t condone either) Extensive gun control and confiscation from "suspect" groups Nationalized child care, health care, and education,…

The CSMonitor reports that "Drug cartels thrive in US national parks." The blame is placed solely on the druggies, but do you think this would happen if the park land was privately owned or growing weeds was legal? When the government places a very profitable (and harmless) industry outside the law, what else can it…

Remember "Sultaana Freeman," the woman who refused to show her face for her driver’s license photo? A number of arguments have been presented in support and in opposition of her "right" to have her photo taken with her veil on. Unfortunately, since no one understands what a "right" is anymore, no one can say whether…