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“[I]t is important and it is also right,” Wyoming Governor Matt Mead declared in a letter to the legislature, to keep 4th, 5th and 6th amendment protections outside the boundaries of his bailiwick. The Gov had just vetoed a bill making strong-arm robbery as illegal for police as it is for anyone else. The theory goes that government, the same crew running courts and paying judges, is overwhelmingly disadvantaged in the arena of “justice.” Prosecutors only have a chance to save the world against opponents with both hands tied behind their backs. Public safety depends on heroes who can rifle … Continue reading →

I am inspired by the very definition of self-reliance: to be reliant on one’s own capabilities, judgment, or resources. Ultimately, it is the epitome of independence and lays the groundwork of what we are all striving for – to live a life based on our personal principles and beliefs. It is a concept rooted in the groundwork  that made America great. Being dependent on our own capabilities and resources helped create a strong, plentiful country for so long. That said, the existing country as it is now is entirely different than when it began. Why Are We So Dependent? It is much too complicated to get into how … Continue reading →

For sixty years I have been captivated by the heroic stories of Robin Hood. The Adventures of Robin Hood was my favorite movie as a kid, Errol Flynn my favorite actor. Adventures of Robin Hood, by Eleanor Graham Vance, was my favorite book as a kindergartener. I still have it in my library. Over the past several days I have once again been reliving my corrupted youth by watching on DVD the 143 episodes of The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Richard Greene. Above is Outlaw Money, one of my favorites with many themes LRC enthusiasts will relish. The television … Continue reading →

By Dr. Mercola Testosterone is an androgenic sex hormone produced by the testicles (and in smaller amounts in women’s ovaries), and is often associated with “manhood.” Primarily, this hormone plays a great role in men’s sexual and reproductive function. It also contributes to their muscle mass, hair growth, maintaining bone density, red blood cell production, and emotional health. Although testosterone is considered a male sex hormone, women, while having it at relatively low levels, are more sensitive to its effects.   While conventional medical thought stresses that testosterone is a catalyst for prostate cancer,1 even employing castration (orchiectomy) as a … Continue reading →

Josh Tewalt has a drug problem that led to several arrests. Like many others afflicted with that weakness, Tewalt eventually wound up in prison. Unlike most of them, however, he landed on the right side of the bars in the very lucrative position of Deputy Chief of Corrections for the State of Idaho. Without the dubious benefit of a college degree or substantial experience in law enforcement apart from his own time in jail, Tewalt receives a base salary of at least $83,000 a year to manage the human inventory of Idaho’s prison-industrial complex. Under Idaho’s state code, Tewalt’s repeated … Continue reading →

When you have to resort to paying people to buy something, it ought to tell you something about the value of the thing you’re trying to “sell.” Such thoughts apparently haven’t occurred to GM, which continues to describe the Volt-based (and twice-as pricey) Cadillac ELR electric car as a “combination of leading technology with stunningly attractive design” that is “is unlike any other coupe in the luxury segment.” So says Cadillac jefe Johan de Nysschen. Poor dude. He has to put on a brave face. It’s his job, after all. Like the captain of a sinking liner, he must calm the … Continue reading →

A birthday party ‘invitation from hell’ has been mocked online after racking up over a million views. The invitation, apparently sent by a one-year-old boy’s mother, demanded a number of gifts for guests to bring to the party. She asks for a water table, a play tunnel, tent and book for her one-year-old, adding she had sent a separate list to her mother and sister-in-law to ‘avoid duplication’. An anonymous Reddit user shared the invitation, explaining a colleague received it from a family with a ‘very significant income’. “With [our child’s] birthday coming up, we thought we’d ask for four … Continue reading →

The systematic murder of 1.5 million Armenians by the Turks, which began a century ago, will be memorialized around the world on April 24. The Pope got things rolling early this week by meeting with Armenian religious leaders at the Vatican. He called for international recognition of the historical truth of this genocide. He said this to the visiting leaders. “A century has passed since that horrific massacre which was a true martyrdom of your people, in which many innocent people died as confessors and martyrs for the name of Christ. Even today, there is not an Armenian family untouched … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago, Ohio Legislators introduced SB121,  a bill that would add the meningitis vaccine to the school schedule. The effort was spearheaded by Senator Cliff Hite (R, Findlay), who lost a niece to meningitis 16 years ago. Today, I learned that 12 of 33 members co-sponsored the bill, a bad thing for those who oppose this legislation. It is assumed that lay people will vote to pass the bill, with little opposition. Even though Ohio has a philosophical exemption, there is no guarantee that this right to refuse will remain intact. With 110 bills submitted in 36 states … Continue reading →

Trade was taking place between East Asia and the New World hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus arrived in the area in 1492. This is according to a series of bronze artefacts found at the ‘Rising Whale’ site in Cape Espenberg, Alaska. Archaeologists discovered what they believe to be a bronze and leather buckle and a bronze whistle, dating to around A.D. 600. Bronze-working had not been developed at this time in Alaska, and researchers instead believe the artefacts were created in China, Korea or Yakutia. ‘We’re seeing the interactions, indirect as they are, with these so-called ‘high civilisations’ of … Continue reading →

One hundred years ago this month – April 1915 – the Allies and Germany were stalemated on the Western Front. Winston Churchill, the young, ambitious First Lord of the British Admiralty proposed a scheme first advanced by France’s prime minister,  Aristide Briand. The best way for Britain and France to end the stalemate and link up to their isolated ally, Russia, would be a daring “coup de main,” or surprise attack, to seize the Ottoman Empire’s Dardanelles, occupy Constantinople (today Istanbul) and knock Turkey out of the First World War. Though rickety, the Ottoman Empire was Germany’s most important wartime ally. … Continue reading →

Nothing human alien is to me, I understand nothing that is human: I cannot quite make up my mind which describes my situation the better. But certainly one of the things that I do not understand is the cult of celebrity; it mystifies me completely. It is not that I am uninterested in gossip, provided it is about someone known to me personally, even if but slightly, and is sufficiently malicious, as it usually is. But I cannot imagine what it is like to immerse oneself in the details of the personal lives of people whose fame is ephemeral and … Continue reading →