Via New York Times: RENO, Nev. — Apple, the world’s most profitable technology company, doesn’t design iPhones here. It doesn’t run AppleCare customer service from this city. And it doesn’t manufacture MacBooks or iPads anywhere nearby. Yet, with a handful of employees in a small office here in Reno, Apple has done something central to [...]
Who Truly Deserves a State? The Kurds or the Palestinians?
February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
There are over twenty Arab states throughout the Middle East and North Africa, but the world demands, in a chorus of barely disguised animosity towards Israel, that yet another Arab state be created within the mere forty miles separating the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan. Israel, a territory no larger than the tiny principality [...]
Lessons From Obama’s Home State
February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Back in the 1980s, tourism officials in Illinois coined the phrase, “Illinois, you put me in a happy state,” as the sales pitch to would-be visitors to the Land of Lincoln. Three decades later, President Obama’s home state is far from a happy state. What’s happening in Illinois is a reminder of how destructive tax [...]
Obama’s State Of The Union: The Hollow Man Speaks
January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Ah, the Hollow Man… I listen to these things so you don’t have to, and I’ve got a pretty strong stomach – but last night’s festivities were truly something else. A transcript is available here for those of you into self-mortification, but I’ll go over the basics. First off, the speech was obviously very well [...]
Our Growing Police State
December 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Last week, the FBI released its preliminary crime statistics for the first half of 2011, and across the nation violent crimes dropped 6.7% while property crimes dropped 3.7%. This continues a downward trend that dates back to the 1970′s. Many of the violent crimes reported this year have been sensational. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and Federal [...]
Nanny State: Permit Needed to Film Bigfoot
November 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hypocrisy in Media’s Penn State Storyline
November 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Penn State University football scandal has been ugly in a variety of ways, but not all of them are immediately obvious. In particular, the mainstream press, so proud of its progressive views on most moral matters, showed the puritanical streak they always reveal when a person widely believed to be of good moral character [...]
Nanny State Watch! Seattle Cracks Down on Freelance Superheroes
October 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Via ABC: Seattle’s masked superhero crime fighter “Phoenix Jones” is now fighting an assault charge for allegedly spraying pepper spray on people who he claims were fighting. Seattle police claim the people were dancing. Phoenix Jones, who has been unmasked by police as Benjamin Fodor, was arrested about 2:30 a.m. Sunday while still wearing his [...]
Nanny State: FAA Threatens Pilot in Annual Turkey Drop
October 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Via AP: Turns out turkeys don’t fly. The Baxter Bulletin reports that attendees at the Turkey Trot festival in Yellville were disappointed when no turkeys dropped from planes on Friday or Saturday. The turkey drop is a mainstay of the event in northern Arkansas, though organizers don’t sanction it. Supporters say the turkeys can fly [...]
Nanny State! San Fran Protests Anti-Nudity Law
September 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
NRO Live Blog Feed The CornerReid Laments ‘Job-Killing’ Cuts He Once SupportedThe Senate will vote today on a House-passed continuing resolution that A) funds the government through Nov. 18, and B) . . . Go The Campaign SpotWhere Have I Heard Perry-Related Wildfire Snark Before? Ah, Yes…“Looks like Perry wasn’t able to pray the fire away.” — Daily [...]