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The beast shouting "I" at the heart of the world. Alien misanthropologist in a homo sapiens skinsuit. Pass the wine and get out of my sunshine!

Smoking ban for resort parks

From the Blackpool Gazette. The paedocracy continues to molest British liberty… ________________ By Shelagh Parkinson MOVES are being made to ban smoking in Blackpool’s parks. Signs are to go up at the entrances to 13 parks and playing fields advising the public the areas are now smoke-free sites. […]

Inconsistency Quotient

by Daniel Acheampong

Two weeks back, the state of Texas sent convicted murderer Marvin Wilson on a KCI-addled one-way trip to oblivion. News of this came to my attention via the Huffington Post, which made a big how-to about the potassium-punctured perp’s IQ. Leading with the headline “Texas Puts Man with 61 IQ to Death”, HuffPo made mention of a variety of testimonies regarding Wilson’s intelligence…

The Supreme Court late in the afternoon rejected without comment…

Progressive Betrayals of Civil Liberties

Anthony Gregory chimes in on Cathygate at the Independent Institute. ________ In the last two weeks, we have seen the weakness of many left-liberals’ support for civil liberties. Last week, progressive bloggers, activists, and politicians piled on Chick-fil-A, whose president Dan Cathy has spoken critically of and supported […]

Opposing Circumcision: A Shoah Thing?

My latest from the Inferno, looking into the intersection between prepuce-pruning and PC… ____________ It pleased me to read of a Cologne court’s decision to give the legality of child-circumcision the snip. Even a crotchety old anti-statist like myself can appreciate the few laws that uphold some level […]

The Last Little Abortion Clinic in Mississippi

Another good ‘un from Goad… ___________ The hoarsely ululating throats of the “pro-life” and “pro-choice” movements screamed at each other outside a small abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi last week as a federal judge cock-blocked a state lawand allowed the clinic to stay open for now. The law […]

The Nagging Persistence of Tribalism

Goad’s latest @ TakiMag. _______ Last week in rural western Alabama, members of the Christian Identity movement teamed up with Klansmen to host a three-day shindig that ended on Friday with a cross burning. The event gained national attention after local residents complained about a flyer that specified […]

The Much Maligned Free Market

From Kyle’s Corner. ________ It’s official, the commies are winning. Recent Pew polls have shown a slow but consistent increase in socialism’s popularity, despite a 50 year Cold War fought ostensibly against the concept. Youth 18-29 years of age (AKA the future) now prefer socialism over capitalism, and […]

Myths of Individualism

Tom G. Palmer set the communitarian crowd straight. Kudos to Kyle Kidwell for bringing this to my attention. ____________ It has recently been asserted that libertarians, or classical liberals, actually think that “individual agents are fully formed and their value preferences are in place prior to and outside […]

Islam’s Role in Slavery

From TakiMag: Jim Goad on the Trans-Saharan slave trade. ___________ While filling my car with gasoline possibly derived from Middle Eastern oil, I spotted a billboard for a local clothing store called US ARABIA. Though the sign’s head-swaddled male and female models appear to be Caucasian, palefaces are […]

“Wild Justice”

From The Anarchist Library. Bob Black spits on his hands, hoists the black flag, and considers slitting throats. Kudos to Luna920 for bringing this to my attention. _______________ Introduction We’ve all heard the phrase “law and order” — as if they go together. The slogan assumes that law […]

Eric the Withholder

Holder gets a Goading @ TakiMag. _____________________ by Jim Goad The House Oversight Committee voted last week to begin Contempt of Congress proceedings against porpoise-faced Attorney General Eric Holder. Although the vote was a reaction to Holder’s stonewalling in the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal, America’s wormy, mustachioed […]

Jimmy Carr is morally right

From The UK Libertarian. Davy, the UK Libertarian, hoists moralistic tax-happy statists on their own petard. Logical, potent, and apt, if emotionally-oversaturated at times. _________________ [WARNING: The following article contains images that some people may (and should) find disturbing. If you don’t want to see fairly graphic images […]

Punished for supporting the EDL?

From Spiked. Interview with the PC Stasi’s latest victim. ___________ By Patrick Hayes ‘You hear the things the social workers say, and you just bang your head against a brick wall and think, “Am I actually hearing this? Is this real?”’ Toni McLeod is an eight-month pregnant 25-year-old […]

Invisible Children Not Amused by NYU Kids’ Parody

From the Atlantic Wire. Personally, I find Kickstriker’s campaign parody fucking hilarious, not to mention potentially more effective than Jason Russell’s imperialist-enabling personality cult. Here’s an excerpt from the Kickstriker bid… PLEDGE $50,000 OR MORE 3 BACKERS · Limited Reward (29 of 32 remaining) If Kony is killed […]

Men Outnumber Women Among American Rape Victims

James Joyner on the rapecage-industrial complex. From Outside the Beltway. ____________ Christopher Glazer takes to N+1 magazine to argue that we should Raise the Crime Rate. Statistics are notoriously slippery, but the figures that suggest that violence has been disappearing in the United States contain a blind spot […]

Romanticism Rests on Two False Premises

Benjamin Marks takes Mencken-misconceptions (and libertarian uplift) to task… Read more about “Mencken’s Conservatism” here. _________ Mencken believed that most of the debates about politics, religion, science, philosophy, aesthetics and other issues rests on false premises that make all their squabbles merely petty infighting. Here is a brief […]

The Second Sexism: don’t judge a book by its press

From the New Statesman. Might be a worthy read for those interested in modern men’s issues. __________ By Ally Fog Anyone who has ever debated male-specific gender issues will probably have experienced an encounter like this: Bloke: “Yeah, but men can also be victims of violence and injustice, […]

Indiana legalizes shooting cops

From Russia Today. Not all bad news, then! _________________ by Vincent West Hold onto your holsters, folks: shooting a cop dead is now legal in the state of Indiana. Governor Mitch Daniels, a Republican, has authorized changes to a 2006 legislation that legalizes the use of deadly force […]