They want to force you to wear seatbelts. They want to make you wear a helmet on your motorcycles. I can understand these things, but I don’t agree. City of New York wants to ban trans-fat in restaurants! This is unfathomable and an egregious affront to liberty, in a nation based on freedom of choice! We have the inalienable right to decide which god(s) to worship, who to vote for, who to criticize, but we aren’t allowed to decide for ourselves, whether we want to subject ourselves to the marginal risks of margarines? “To comply, chefs would have to dump many margarines and frying oils, and possibly reworking long-held recipes for baked goods” The article suggests that the NY State Restaurant Association supports this initiative. This from the … Read entire article »

we’ve got nobody to blame but each other. The reason man desires government is so that it may protect his individual rights to property and life, without which no other rights can exist. But government is often deluded (or so deludes the public) into believing that it serves other purposes, and can satisfy other needs better than individual actors or groups thereof. The government believes its purpose is to create bureaucracy, as if it were some tangible good, the more of which it produces, the better off we become. Thusly, we are presented with 50,000 page tax codes, and 1,800 page energy bills that nobody can possibly be expected to understand, and an FCC whose power has grown to a level at which it threatens fundamental rights. Our government is in … Read entire article »

Today marks the first time in Detroit history that the incumbent Mayor came in 2nd in the primaries. Kilpatrick 35%, Hendrix 44%. McPhail, Clarke, DNF. Please bear with the long-windedness… I was born in Detroit, towards the end of Coleman Young’s reign of mediocracy. Shortly thereafter, my parents moved to the suburbs, primarily to be closer to my father’s work. Ten years later, my grandmother, who had lived in the same house since the early 1950s was forced to move after a string of robberies, rapes, and car-jackings on her block, which was mostly aging, retired 2nd generation immigrants of the “greatest generation.” Although I haven’t lived in Detroit since I was an infant, I had, several months ago, considered investing in the city, buying a condominium near the … Read entire article »