"A commuter was arrested at gunpoint and had his DNA and fingerprints taken simply for listening to his MP3 player while waiting for a bus."

from Associated Newspapers Limited: Arrested, caged and DNA tested - for using MP3

"The one thing I fear if either of these cretins become president is higher taxes because I don't want to give the bums any more than I'm already giving them. They're bleeding me dry. I don't want to give the bums in the street another turkey sandwich. I don't want to give junkies another needle. I am sick and tired of the taxes I pay, and I don't want to pay another dime."

from Trevor Zimmer: Savage claimed Lantos used the Holocaust as "a weapon the rest of his life"

We have a unique opportunity to push the Trans-Texas Corridor fiasco
in to the Presidential race by contacting CNN/Univision now before
this Thursday's debate in Austin between Senators Obama and Clinton.

Will you join us in contacting CNN & Univision to urge that they ask
a question concerning the Corridor, an issue that concerns all
Texans, and particularly the 1.3 million Texans who voted independent
in the 2006. All the pundits say that independents will be pivotal
in the Texas primary on March 4th -- but they don't necessarily know
what issue is most important to us.

Have you been drinking Arbor Mist and its ilk of late? Looking for a wine that really uses raspberry and apple wines to make something tastier? And doesn’t happen to also have a nutrition label? You might want to try this one. Try to look past the fact that it’s from a place probably not known for wine but rather wheat!

In what must be one of the few fun-filled functions in the otherwise beastly boring lives of bureaucrats, undercover operatives try to sneak weaponry through airport checkpoints to test how good Transportation Security Administration screeners are at finding guns, bombs and knives. At half a dozen airports around the country, TSA employees were so uncharacteristically successful that it naturally triggered an investigation to see if they were cheating on their tests. Sure enough, they had been tipped off by their buddies that the fun-filled functionaries were coming. People were shocked.

They are warriors for freedom. Homeland Security hates and fears them. But America needs them.

I rise to speak on the concept of competing currencies. Currency, or money, is what allows civilization to flourish. In the absence of money, barter is the name of the game; if the farmer needs shoes, he must trade his eggs and milk to the cobbler and hope that the cobbler needs eggs and milk. Money makes the transaction process far easier. Rather than having to search for someone with reciprocal wants, the farmer can exchange his milk and eggs for an agreed-upon medium of exchange with which he can then purchase shoes.

This medium of exchange should satisfy certain properties: it should be durable, that is to say, it does not wear out easily; it should be portable, that is, easily carried; it should be divisible into units usable for every-day transactions; it should be recognizable and uniform, so that one unit of money has the same properties as every other unit; it should be scarce, in the economic sense, so that the extant supply does not satisfy the wants of everyone demanding it; it should be stable, so that the value of its purchasing power does not fluctuate wildly; and it should be reproducible, so that enough units of money can be created to satisfy the needs of exchange.

Overall, this wine is not really a sipping wine. It’s best suited to a dinner requiring it’s acidity to bring something to the party. Otherwise you might want to look elsewhere.

This was the first of two bottles we had that night, and at least one turns your tongue completely black. If this isn't the wine that did it, then for $5 per bottle you've got a great table wine to serve to the children, or lesser guests, while you open up something a bit better for yourself. I'm not going to buy it again, but, if it's on a happy hour menu, it's a safe choice.

"Wow, I mean if you have been looking for an instance of our civil rights, and/or the first amendment being trampled you hit the jackpot on this one. I mean would the treatment given by the Secret Service of been the same if it was a war supporter?"

from Hyer Standard: Dick Cheneys Dirty Little Secret

As a United States Congressman, I take my oath to uphold all of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights very seriously. Unfortunately, too many in Washington DC believe they can pick-and-choose which provisions of the constitution they can uphold. For example, many politicians, judges, and bureaucrats believe they have the power to disregard our right to own guns, even though the second amendment explicitly guarantees the people's right to "keep and bear arms."

Like the Founding Fathers, I believe that the right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to a free society. Where law-abiding citizens are most freely allowed to defend themselves, communities are safer, while crime rises when law-abiding people's access to firearms is restricted. Gun laws only disarm those who respect the law. Those with criminal tendencies do not turn in their weapons and reform their ways because government bureaucrats enact statutes that tell them to. Gun control laws turn peaceful citizens into sitting ducks for criminals to prey upon.

Politicians keep looking at the market and keep finding it broken. They think up ways to fix it, to make it more fair. Thus they take what could be a win-win situation and turn it into lose-lose.

Can be drunk with the guys, but they'll groan and call you names when you go find a tree to relieve yourself. The fairer sex will bitch too much, to even try to pass this off as yesterday's fare. If the food is strong or spicy, you could safely use this to deglaze a pan.

Congressman Ron Paul has signed on to a letter to the President asking that an amicus curiae brief filed by U.S Solicitor General Paul D. Clement on DC v. Heller, otherwise known as the DC Gun Ban Case, be withdrawn on the basis that the reasoning within, were it to be accepted by the Supreme Court, leaves open the door for more encroachments on individuals’ Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms.

The brief in question argues that categorical bans of virtually all self-defense firearms may be upheld as constitutional if a court determines that these prohibitions are “reasonable” restrictions of constitutional rights. The reasonability standard is the lowest standard of constitutional review our courts utilize, a much lesser hurdle than the “strict scrutiny” review that courts use in many cases in which regulations threaten individual rights.