- Woman Sexually Assaulted by TSA
Yet more reports streaming in that the TSA has indeed received orders to begin actually, literally putting their hands down (or up) passengers pants, running their fingers between skin and clothing hem, and then giving a "pat" to the genitals and a "pat" to the buttocks. If this doesn't qualify as sexual assault, I don't know what does. This has been a point of objection to the "enhanced patdowns" for some time now: what kind of psychological effect will these forced gropings have on people who were victims of sexual assault at some earlier time in their life? - 1 in 5 Americans "Mentally Ill"
The definition of "mental illness" these days is so broad. While I acknowledge that there are people with mental illnesses, I'm personally a bit of a mental illness skeptic. It seems like anyone who has changing emotions instantly diagnoses themselves "bipolar". Anyone who likes to keep to themselves must have "Aspergers". Anyone who ever gets sad is now "clinically depressed". Energetic kids now have "Attention Deficit Disorder". A hundred years ago, people probably would have just called these things "life". - Strident Anti-libertarian to Become GOP Chair
Michigan Republican Saul Anuzis, who infamously tried to get Congressman Ron Paul barred from the Republican debates because of his unorthodox opinions, has thrown his hat in the ring to become national GOP Chairman. With many Republicans drifting further into the libertarian corner and the GOP establishment finally making a home for the large numbers of independent libertarians, making Anuzis GOP Chair would be about as smart as making Rick Santorum the GOP Chair. - Clinton Hearts Bush
Bill Clinton reveals he had always been a George W. Bush fan. Once again: two peas in a pod. Bush did everything Clinton wished he could do, but couldn't, because of the Republican Congress in the '90's. Both Clinton and Bush were lovers of big government and big spending (though Clinton's spending habits were reined in by the GOP House), were eager to get our troops stuck in useless battles, and were pathologically dishonest. - Geithner Warns Republicans Not to Touch the Fed
Geithner has vowed to oppose any attempts to strip the Federal Reserve of any of its powers, and warns Republicans against "politicizing" the Fed. Despite the fact that, unfortunately, the US Constitution does grant Congress the sole power to "regulate the value" of money (Article I Section 8), it's laughable to think that the Fed currently has any non-political independence worth defending. The Fed's leadership is appointed by politicians, helps those politicians get re-elected, and then bails out the politicians' buddies on Wall Street. If we wanted to make the Fed truly independent, we'd make it a private bank like any other, with no government attachments, and force it to sink or swim on its market merits. - Cop Gets $185 Fine for Paralyzing 14 y.o.
A cop going 56 mph in a 30 mph speed zone, hit a 14 year old boy, making him a brain-damaged quadripilegic. The cop will, of course, pay the hefty price of $185 for his actions. (I got fined $110 a year ago for improperly clearing the snow off my back windshield during a 30 second drive down the road to the post office.) This raises the question I ask so often: Why are officers of the law held to a lower standard, rather than a higher standard, than the rest of us? If this man wasn't an employee of the State, he would have been dealt with in an immeasurably harsher manner. Shouldn't police officers who do these things know better? And because they know better, shouldn't they receive harsher punishments when they do these sorts of things? Are government employees our servants, or are they a privileged class? It's time we made that decision once and for all.
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