We celebrate Independence Day

“Isn’t our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more government largesse accompanied always by more government authority, less individual liberty, and ultimately, totalitarianism, always advanced as for our own good.  The alternative is the dream conceived by our Founding … Read more

Thursday miscellanea #291

Eight weeks from tonight. Only eight weeks! Lindsay Lohan is suing the makers of Grand Theft Auto V for some skank character she says is her without her permission. Sigh. I certainly wish she’d make news for a different reason. I can encounter gristle in a steak and keep trucking, no problem. But if I … Read more

Supreme Court rules Hobby Lobby can sew employees’ vaginas shut

That’s about what you’d think, given the spittle-flecked outrage. Hobby Lobby is blocking access to nothing. Hobby Lobby employees have 16 contraceptive options in their health plans. Fact. Fact. Hobby Lobby does not want to be forced to pay for four drugs its owners consider abortifacients. That’s it. This should be a market decision in … Read more

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