Division of Labour: I fall victim to the drug war:
As I’ve mentioned, I had transplant surgery on Tuesday. After removing my IV lines, the doctors put me on the controlled substance Percocet for pain relief, to be taken as needed up to 4x daily. (Note: the stuff works.) Under federal rules, I had …
Since when did playing poker become illegal?
Another Dumb Poker Raid:
Police in San Mateo County, California apparently first spent months investigating the small-stakes poker game. From this firsthand account, it looks like a couple of the officers were playing regularly for several weeks before sending in the SWAT team, guns drawn, last week. …
Are we slaves to the state or are we entitled to the fruits of our own labor? Wisconsin state Senator Jon Erpenbach thinks that we’re slaves to the state:
Sen. Jon Erpenbach has proposed a bill that at first glance appears to have nothing to do with video games: It would raise the age …
How’s this for on the job competence?
According to the lawsuit, about 9 p.m. June 15, Vega came to Guardi’s and ordered pasta salad. When Mendez walked into the cooler to get the food, Vega asked Mendez’s wife if she wanted to see Vega scare her husband. She said ”no,” according to court documents. …
The Wisconsin State Journal reports that two homes were invaded recently, by robbers looking for drugs.
”These guys kicked in the doors of people ’s residences who had nothing to do with the drug trade, ” said Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain. ”It was a terrible event for both couples. ”
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Above: ”Achmed, they’ve just subpoena’d Osama!”
You could quite justifiably tell me I’m a little late to discuss whether captured terrorists should be allowed full trials according to American law; after all, the Supreme Court ruled the answer to be a big old Yes well over a year ago now.
But I’ve got something to get off …
It used to be that a person had a reasonable expectation of privacy. Now? The government snoops on you through your children. Woe be to the person that does anything the government finds questionable.
I found this out after my 13-year-old daughter’s annual checkup. Her pediatrician grilled her about alcohol and drug abuse. …
We’d all do well to occasionally remember what exactly we mean by the word ”freedom”.
I thought about that as I read through the Heritage Foundation’s Freedom Index for 2007, a list which rates each of 161 countries in the world according to that country’s level of economic freedom – that is, the level of control …
You don’t own your car unless the government allows you to. If I were you, I’d avoid driving through Rockford, Illinois anytime soon.
TheAgitator.com: Turn It Up, Lose Your Car: Comments
A new Rockford, Illinois law allows police to seize the automobiles of owners who play their stereos too loud. But it gets worse: …
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: ”No person shall be … deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”. Do you think that still applies? I don’t. Not when a family can have their car seized and held by the police, before anyone was even convicted of a crime.
Take this story, …