Category: Aggregated

After his career-changing performance in Airplane!, Leslie Nielsen teamed up with Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker again for the ABC parody show Police Squad! in 1982. After six episodes, it was canceled (though some people were clearly watching it, as it was nominated for two Emmy Awards). Six years later, the show found new life and pronounced success as a comedy movie franchise, beginning with 1988’s The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!. Nielsen returned as detective Frank Drebin, an inept police officer who uncovers an assassination plot against Queen Elizabeth II, and falls for the … Continue reading →

The post From the Files of Police Squad appeared first on LewRockwell.

Serious questions have been raised since Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced that he would donate” 99% of his stake in Facebook shares to a new LLC he had formed with his wife Priscilla Chan. Zuckerberg, perhaps surprised that everyone is not as gullible as the Winklevoss twins, has returned to Facebook with a clarifying statement about the “donation.” With this clarification, it is clear that there is nothing special about the LLC. It is just a typical LLC where all income and capital gains recognized will flow through to Zuckerberg and his wife on their personal tax forms. Thus, the use of the term … Continue reading →

The post Mark Zuckerberg, Philanthropist? appeared first on LewRockwell.

Contemporary academia is awash in government money.  Not surprisingly, the vast majority of its scholarly ‘findings’ exalt and promote expansion of the state.  Modern college campuses are dens of extreme pro-government, socialist and elitist sentiment.  Statistically, the American professoriate is more loyal to the Democratic Party than the voters of San Francisco or the government employee unions of Washington, D.C. Because of the ideological lopsidedness of today’s colleges, the peer-review process barely functions as a gatekeeping device for weeding out questionable scholarship. Here are three recent “studies” that have garnered overwhelmingly favorable attention in the world of academia (and in … Continue reading →

The post Left-Wing Scholarly Studies Easily Debunked appeared first on LewRockwell.

In the feudal era there were the “three estates” — the clergy, the nobility and the commons. The first and second were eradicated in Robespierre’s Revolution. But in the 18th and 19th century, Edmund Burke and Thomas Carlyle identified what the latter called a “stupendous Fourth Estate.” Wrote William Thackeray: “Of the Corporation of the Goosequill — of the Press … of the fourth estate. … There she is — the great engine — she never sleeps. She has her ambassadors in every quarter of the world — her courtiers upon every road. Her officers march along with armies, and … Continue reading →

The post Why They Hate Trump appeared first on LewRockwell.

Dr. Udo Ulfakatte is a top German journalist and editor and has been for more than two decades, so you can bet he knows a thing or two about mainstream media and what really happens behind the scenes. Recently, Dr. Ulfakatte went on public television stating that he was forced to publish the works of intelligence agents under his own name, also adding that noncompliance with these orders would result in him losing his job. He recently made an appearance on RT news to share these facts: I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I was educated to lie, to … Continue reading →

The post Top Journalist Spills the Beans appeared first on LewRockwell.

It’s a sad fact of life in the 21st century that active shootings have become a regular occurrence in the United States. In other parts of the world, terrorist groups are using active shootings to, well, terrorize. While the media focuses on the firestorm of political debate these events cyclically create, I’ve rarely seen them discuss what people are actually supposed to do in these situations. According to the FBI, active shootings in public places are becoming increasingly common. Which means it would serve everyone to understand how to respond if they ever find themselves in the line of fire. … Continue reading →

The post How to Respond to an Active Shooter Situation appeared first on LewRockwell.

The first thing I thought when I heard the names of Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, was “They sound like new parents.” Sure enough, the couple had a baby six months ago and had the tenacity to drop it off at Grandma’s before the shooting. America is the only country in the developed world with zero days’ paternity leave. In Iceland, fathers get 120 days off with 80% of their original wages. They don’t have shootings in Iceland. The police shot a man dead for the first time there two years ago and apologized immediately. Police here … Continue reading →

The post What’s Really Behind the San Bernardino Shooting? appeared first on LewRockwell.

Two things happened after the most recent widely publicized US mass shootings/domestic terrorism acts: i) Obama once again made a concerted effort to push for gun-control, and ii) gun sales soared to record highs for November most likely in response to i). As we reported in September, citing the FT, “gun sales this year could surpass the record set in 2013, when gun purchases surged after the December 2012 Sandy Hook murders.” And given that Black Friday background checks broke all previous records, it appears we are well on our way. … the calls for tighter gun laws lead to … Continue reading →

The post Americans Have Never Bought So Many Guns appeared first on LewRockwell.

Originally published by AmmoLand.com. Cottonwood, AZ – Everyone knows Laser Plinking Cans are the most fun since lawn darts, and now we’ve invited some friends to the festivities by including our most robust full-size Trainer Trigger Tyme Laser Pistol and a Reaction Tyme Target. With the Laser Combo Kit, shooters “can” choose to plink just for fun, or boost the challenge and shoot both targets at different distances. This interactive target system provides immediate reactive feedback to alert shooters when they made an accurate “hit” shot on target with the Trainer Trigger Tyme pistol’s integrated laser. Great for shooters of all ages … Continue reading →

The post Practice and Plinking appeared first on LewRockwell.

Photo reveals features less than half the size of a city block on Pluto’s diverse surface.