A “ Firearm Protection Act ” has just been filed in the Wyoming House, by lead sponsors Kendell Kroeker and Allen Jaggi. The new bill strengthens 2010’s Firearm Freedom Act (which was introduced by Rep. Jaggi); at this link the new proposed language is red, and the blue is what is being struck out.… Read More
Airport Janitor Finds and Returns iPad and $13,000
And then gives away the reward , too.
Irish Newspapers: We Want You to Pay to Link to Us
We live at a time when longstanding institutions are being shaken and threatened in ways neither they nor we could have expected a generation ago. The print media is the classic example. Newsweek simply stopped printing its print magazine, and hardly anyone noticed. Ad revenues… Read More
Announcing the Winner of the Tom Woods Prize
For most inane, misleading, or factually incorrect statements about nullification in a single article. The winner is journalist Dan Carden, of the NWI [northwest Indiana] Times. In an article about Indiana State Senator Phil Boots, we read : That argument for nullification has been made several times in U.S. history,… Read More
Unimaginative Conservatives at The Imaginative Conservative
Sirius/XM radio host Mike Church has an article at The Imaginative Conservative on secession and the (obviously correct) compact theory of the Union. But check out the comments. How many of them are — dare I say it — imaginative? For some of these people it’s the same old conventional nonsense, as they pat themselves on the… Read More
27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts in 2012
Over at MyScienceAcademy , an amazing series of brief write-ups. A sample: Quadriplegic Uses Her Mind to Control Her Robotic Arm Spray-On Skin DARPA Robot Can Traverse an Obstacle Course 3-D Printer Creates Full-Size Houses in One Session And so on .
The Real Benefit of a Colony on Mars?
Maybe the upside to the private Mars colony initiative I blogged about today is this: Instead of forever having to listen to “If we can send a man to the moon, surely we can conquer [insert random challenge],” with “we” obviously being government, the new slogan will be: “If… Read More
Suggestions for a High School Student?
A reader writes: My name is ______, and I’m a junior at _____ High School in Southeast Texas. I am a huge fan. You have really gotten me interested in the untold side of our nation’s history. Well, for a research paper for our English… Read More
Google’s Driverless Car
Most people (myself included) were pretty skeptical of the driverless car when I posted an infographic about it. Too many variables seem to be involved in driving for the idea to be practical. But I’m no expert. Here’s an overview:
Get Your Questions Answered
Tonight at Liberty Classroom at 9:00 ET our three U.S. historians — that is, Kevin Gutzman, Brion McClanahan, and I — will be doing a 90-minute live video Q&A. Bring your questions or just come and watch. Kevin, as you may know, is the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution ,… Read More