From the Reason Foundation comes their newest venture, Reason.tv. The first episode of their Drew Carey Project called Gridlock was launched at Reason.tv today. Video below.
Also, Drew made his debut on The Price is Right today.
The Pentagon becomes a Toys R’ Us for local law enforcement (at bargain basement prices, no less).
Quite distressing, really. Based on the events that unfolded around the Kathryn Johnston incident in Atlanta—and a troublingly high number of other such incidents around the U.S.—is the militarization of our police forces really such a good idea?
A look at the National Debt, 1791-2005.
Pretty sobering isn’t it? Click the link for more.
Predictable complaints of selective editing aside, you can’t help but wonder, really.
Now that I think about it, I wonder how England would fare if a U.S. journalist turned the tables?
For once! From the AJC, it would appear that DeKalb County’s CEO has finally figured out where the priorities lie, and it has nothing to do with smoking bans.
How could someone be against both the War in Iraq and the War in Afghanistan? After all, one actually attacked us, while the other didn’t.
The logic there fails me. I disagree with the hardline drug interdiction efforts in Afghanistan, but for all it’s worth, we should remain there to remove the rest of the standing Taliban — read: Osama bin Laden. Iraq is an entirely different issue altogether.
You might be seeing a lot of the following passage in the next few days:
This Tuesday, the US Senate is scheduled to vote on the implementation of a national ID card system. The Real ID Act is nothing less than a Real National ID Act. The only thing left to the individual states is to decide which pretty picture they will choose to put on the card: everything else will be controlled by Washington DC bureaucrats.
The Real ID Act has never been debated on the US Senate floor. They've never talked about it in any committee. Heck, most of them haven't even read it! Yet they're planning to vote on it on Tuesday, no questions asked.
In order to make a single irresponsible Congressman with totalitarian leanings happy, the Senate leadership let him write the bill and then slipped it into a another bill, one that would keep our fighting men and women taken care of in Iraq and Afghanistan. Supporting our troops means making sure they come home to a free nation, not a surveillance state.
Here's some information about the new "RealID" initiative slowly making its way up the Congressional charts that can be found sprouting up all over the place, and it's well worth 15 minutes of your otherwise routine Mondays to see what's planned. In fact, CNet has a rather helpful FAQ regarding this legislation to start your adventure off.After that, if you've been left fairly unsatisfied that the U.S. Government could go forth with this legislation, write your Congressperson immediately.
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