I have always felt that auto insurance is a scam (in that it is hideously expensive and in your best interest to not use it), but I never thought about it from the perspective that the government is making us buy a certain product. This essay on LewRockwell.com is pretty interesting.
Now I can sleep comfortably at night knowing that the World’s Greatest Deliberative body is working hard for me.
I am glad that my vote will count and that nothing can possibly go wrong.
I know who I am voting for.
I am continually amazed at how brilliant the TSA is. They can make us all feel so safe and hardly inconvenience us at all. The best part of all is that they use lots and lots of our hard-earned , but easily taken away, tax dollars to provide all of this enjoyment. Oh yeah, please [...]
Well it looks like we are in for another year of duct tape, plastic sheeting, Al-Qaeda frogmen, and meaningless color-coded alerts.
Red-light cameras increase injury accidents in intersections where they are installed. This according to a recent study funded by the Virginia Department of Transportation. I was almost rear-ended the other day on teh way home from work at a red-light camera intersection. I had to make a quick stop at the intersection becuase I knew [...]
Your friendly officials down at the US Department of Agriculture (why is this not the Department of Health and Human Serivces’ domain, oh they do not have unyielding interest in well, agriculture) have released new nutrition guidelines. I heard about this a bit ago and had hopes (silly me) that they would actually improve them, [...]
Here is a very interesting essay on airport security.
First we find out that State Farm will not , contrary to its advertising campaign, be like a good neighbor and help you out if your car is a victim of a nuclear blast or the subsequent radiation. Also, we find out that those jackasses (AKA, the TSA and the California state government) that insist [...]