The too cozy relationship between tech companies and the myriad law-enforcement arms of the US government is troubling. But when government pays employees in those tech companies to do what is essentially free-lance snooping, it is beyond the pale. The O.C. Weekly writes about United States of America v. Mark A. Rettenmaier. Rettenmaier is a…
Author: CBD
Trigger Alert: Do You Know Someone Who Owns A Pickup Truck?
John Ekdahl asked a deceptively simple question of the nattering class on Twitter, and their collective head exploded. Based on the uniformity of the answers, they really do share a single brain….or maybe even just a single thought. And that thought is one that is immensely, profoundly, singlemindedly contemptuous of anything that smacks of Middle…
Financial Regulation As A Template For Journalistic Transparency
(Reposted from Ace of Spades) Look at any financial or economic report from the research arm of an American investment bank and you will discover a bewildering array of disclosures, mandated by the Federal government as part of its never-ending drive to level the playing field of investing and – possibly more important to the…
And So It Begins: The Great Unknown–How Will Donald Trump Govern?
And aside from two issues….I don’t much care (for now). I want a goddamned wall built and our immigration laws forcefully enforced. I want national carry permits. Everything else will follow if he does these two things. If not, then the only positive to come out of the election is that the drunken kleptocrat with…
Nobody Shamed You, So Stop Whining Like Entitled Millenials…
The charming but thoroughly deluded youngsters over at Marginally Honorable Chairman, in their latest profanity laden but logic-light podcast, ranted and raved about some imagined slight perpetrated on their honor, their independence and their entertainment pleasures by the big fat meanie Ace, at AoSHQ. It’s a hysterical overreaction to several suggestions from Ace (and one…
If You Don’t Own At Least 17 Guns, You Are Scum
Gun Inequality — Liberals now complaining about “hardcore super owners” Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades. But the new survey estimates that 133m of these guns are concentrated in the hands of just 3%…
There Is No Way On God’s Green Earth That Hillary Will Bow Out
Say what you will about the drunken, neurologically impaired harridan with the blood of at least four Americans on her hands….She is tenacious and driven and will never, ever voluntarily give up her shot at being president. She will have to be driven out by a concerted effort from the entire Democrat party, and that…
ISIS Understands The Security Implications Of The Burqa, But We Don’t….
In the latest example of the obvious fact that ISIS is certainly not the JV team, but we are….They have banned the wearing of the full body covering known as the Burqa or Niqab into secure areas. Daniel Pipes makes some good points here. It is silly to ban Muslim headscarves, because that is simply…
2012 Polling Fantasy Redux?
I remember well, because I was one of the deluded that the polls were, quite frankly, bullshit. Of course Romney was going to beat Obama….his economic record alone would doom him to defeat. Not to mention the catastrophe that was ObamaCare. Or the never-ending apology tours he was so fond of. That they were neck…
Counterpoint: Protest Voting In This Election Is Naive And Dangerous
My earnest but painfully deluded coblogger seems to think that this election cycle is just one more in a series of American presidential elections that will have consequences that are neither dire nor or existential, and that a protest vote is an appropriate response to two truly awful choices (I don’t count the Libertarian, who…