Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

~ Louis D. Brandeis

Archives for April, 2008

Get money for having safe sex?


Check it out, from FT.com:

Thousands of people in Africa will be paid to avoid unsafe sex, under a groundbreaking World Bank-backed experiment aimed at halting the spread of Aids.
The $1.8m trial – to be launched this year – will counsel 3,000 men and women aged 15-30 in southern rural Tanzania over three years, paying them […]

Meth lab explosion on I-10, Baton Rouge, LA


Yea, that’s right: the lab exploded ON THE INTERSTATE. Apparently it was a mobile meth lab? Here’s the story:

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - State police say all lanes of Interstate 10 have been reopened. Troopers had closed I-10 in both directions Tuesday afternoon after an explosion inside a vehicle. Four people were injured, […]

Guns at cost to save more lives


I was reading CNN.com (yes, you read that correctly) to see what was going on at the main stream media’s side of the internet and found an interesting article. Eric Thompson, the owner of the online gun store which sold some of the guns used in the Va Tech massacre and the Northern Illinois […]

Dr. Melissa: Sex is Sacred


Hat tip Conservative Grapevine, Dr. Melissa Clouthier is an insightful blogger that I am enjoying more and more everything I read her posts. Her latest post on the scaredness of sex is one that I agree with fully, and I just wish that more of my female friends would consider what she is saying:


The […]

WTF!?: CHRC hacks a private citizens’ internet account to post hate speech


You’ve got to be fu…ok, I’m going to try to bite my tongue on this one because I’m linking to all these nice peoples blogs…
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me! (that’s the only one - promise):
TORONTO — A woman caught up in a mysterious Internet hijacking scandal that has sparked a federal privacy investigation […]

Raped over the telephone?


Hat tip to Conservative Grapevine:

TUNIS, Tunisia, April 27 (UPI) — A Tunisian family alleges their daughter was raped during a telephone conversation with a man, a lawyer for the family said.
The 30-year-old man said he never touched the young woman. But he acknowledged he heard her scream while they were “totally into” an erotic telephone […]

Rebate Check/Tax Return


Still hasn’t arrived
Just thought yall would wanna know…

A conservative who makes great metal music…


Hat tip to IMAO:
Black & White on the Grey matters 5 Racism / illegal imagration

His band sounds pretty good, too: Superslave Myspace Profile. It’s a metal band.
He says a lot of things in his video rant (which would be better if they were shorter and broken up better) that make you think. For instance, he […]

Illiterate Peasants…


So I was browsing blogs and came across a blog by some angry white guy which I don’t feel like looking up the link to (and really don’t want to link to anyway).  He posted a link and entry to an AP story about a CO legislator who said something rather distasteful:
State Rep. Douglas Bruce, who […]

The Loss of Canadian Free Speech: a summary (updated)


The MoxArgon Group has summarized the Mark Steyn vs. The Canadian Human Rights Commissions battle in pictures and very BIG LETTERS for those who either haven’t been following or still don’t get it (hat tip to Five Feet of Fury).
Last I heard, Steyn has been cleared of the charges since he was writing in a magazine (see […]