In baseball there is a rare but beautiful pitch known as the knuckleball. It is difficult to learn and takes a lifetime to perfect. It glides through the air without spin and zigzags from side to side before reaching the plate. Even the best knuckleball pitchers struggle to throw it effectively. Most catchers simply can’t react fast enough to […]
Former Santa Cruz County, Arizona, Treasurer Elizabeth Gutfahr was sentenced to 10 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to embezzling over $38 million in public funds over 10 years, in what her own attorney called “one of the dumbest, ill-conceived, short-sighted, and most audacious cri Read More Article from Reason.com
Both the system and the word “democracy” were invented by the Greeks, specifically the Athenians. “Demos” was the ancient word for “people,” hence the rule of the people is democracy. I’ve always preferred the selective kind, as practiced by the Brits until late in the 19th century—when one needed to own property before qualifying to […]
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What can an Iranian learn from Syria? Iranians must understand (and many no doubt do) that the Western political class has been criminalized. Just as the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)(1) is a corrupt agency which enabled the downfall of Syria and the installation of an al Qaeda junta, so too is the […]
Iran is the kid on the playground that isn’t intimidated by the bully and is willing—and able—to fight back. President Donald Trump not only attacked a sovereign foreign state (Iran) without provocation, without congressional approval and without constitutional or moral justification, he has also joined the likes of Joe Biden and G.W. Bush in the […]
Libertarians: Abortion is a matter for individual conscience, not public decree Libertarian Party Read More Article from “libertarian” – Google News
The following are two indirectly related personal experiences I have had, the first sometime in mid-2012, the second, an as-yet-to-be-resolved experience in media res. Following the passing of my father in 2012, I shipped numerous items (including some furniture) from Los Angeles to Vienna, Austria. Among the items shipped were ca. ten large cans of freeze-dried […]
Liberals are probably best equipped to survive Trump’s quasi-libertarian chaos | Opinion Wichita Eagle Read More Article from “libertarian” – Google News
Trump Suffers From ‘Libertarian Derangement Syndrome’ – OpEd Eurasia Review Read More Article from “libertarian” – Google News