Tagged and Tracked
As a privacy zealot, I don’t own a cellphone — you know, that sexy little device that allows police to track you at all times …
Pick Your Poison
Every once in a while I am asked, “If you had to choose a form of government under which to live, which would it be?” …
Spending freeze
Ottawa is the second coldest capital city in the world. Winter brings ferocious downfalls of knee-deep snow. Being raised in the Ottawa area, I was …
Join the Club
In early February, G7 officials met in Canada. Specifically, they gathered in Iqaluit, the Arctic capital of Nunavut, with a population of about 7,000, many …
Green Eugenics
The December 3 headline in the Guardian (UK) should have read, “Rich white people pay blacks not to have children.” Instead it declared, “Rich nations …
Pants Down
One of the reasons you should read foreign news sources is to track what American politicians say and do when they feel somewhat shielded from …
Gesture Language
I watched Obama’s much-anticipated speech at the West Point Military Academy with great interest. It was not the content that fascinated me; most of the …
Never the Twain
One of the myriad things I dislike about the crusade against global warming is that it ruins my favorite Mark Twain quotation: “Everyone talks about …
The Winds Have Ears
Your cell phone records are available to anyone, online, for a fee! On Jan. 12, AmericaBlog had a post entitled 1 / AmericaBlog just bought …
Liberty Bill
Many people comment – and properly so – on both the intellectual balance and the political astuteness that Bill Bradford brought to the libertarian movement. …