Month: May 2011

The whole SlutWalks thing is an interesting development. I had seen a reference to the term, but I didn’t know what it meant. I guess it traces back to some Toronto police officer who said women shouldn’t dress like...

Gov. Rick Scott turned down $2.4 billion from the Department of Transportation to help Florida build a rail-line between Orlando and Tampa. As a result, former Republican congressman and current Transportation Secretary Ray...

Mike McGuire is the head of a unit that disables Improvised explosive devices. If you have seen The Hurt Locker you have some idea of the job he does. Some idea. He’s currently stationed in Afghanistan but has previously...

You can listen to all the phone calls that President Lyndon Johnson participated in on November 22nd, 1963, the day JFK was assassinated, through to the end of the month. All of them, that is, except for the call Johnson had...

It seems that now the Second Amendment trumps the First Amendment. At least with respect to Pediatricians in Florida: A pending law in Florida would make it illegal for pediatricians to ask families whether guns are being safely...