Why isn’t someone crushing the Somali pirates?

I seem to remember reading, long ago, another organization of pirates attempted to blackmail nations by controlling passage through and around their territory. It led to armed conflict with many deaths.
What I most wonder, now, with all this technology, all these advances, all this ‘growth’, why are criminal thugs still such a threat in the [...]

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FDA tells taxpayers what kind of oysters they’re allowed to eat.

The F.D.A. (Food & Drug Administration) is set to ‘ban’ the sale of raw oysters from the Gulf Coast as food items, unless they’re treated in a manner which many experts conclude alters or destroys their unique taste.
What I want to know is, why? The ‘potentially deadly bacteria’ that the F.D.A. says is the problem [...]

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The still-business-friendly truth behind Obama’s climate bill.

Barack Obama wants people to believe he’s not a yes-man to big business. He’ll tout his words. He has to tout his words, because, in the big picture, he hasn’t *DONE* much. He’s claimed much, but the legwork, planning, and execution almost entirely falls on other people.
But, he can’t even talk his way out of [...]

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Roman Polanski re-trial a colossal waste of taxpayer money?

At first, I was probably like many of you. Roman Polanski, prolific film director and internationally-known celebrity, was charged with having sex with a 13 year old girl when he was in his early 40’s, after drugging the girl.
The charges were carried out in trial. He plead guilty in what was probably a plea agreement, [...]

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Obama Administration wants to pick and choose who it considers “news” agencies?

The White House has been engaging in a harsh war of words against Fox News, claiming that they are an agent of a Republican agenda, that their programming is aimed at “making money”, and that they should not be treated as a news organization at all.
Well, that’d be all well and good. Except, the White [...]

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Keith Bardwell isn’t a racist, on which twisted alternate Earth?

Maybe you’ve heard it by now, but Keith Bardwell would like you to know he isn’t a racist.
He is a justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, and he asks every prospective couple seeking a marriage license from him if they are an “interracial” couple. But he isn’t a racist. He insists he will [...]

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Voters display clear lack of support for health care reform.

In Cocoa, Florida, there was a public forum on health reform at the Cocoa BCC (Brevard Community College) campus. The opinions of many in attendance were against the bills making their way through Congress. And, unlike the Obama administration and bill authors and supporters would like us to believe, very little if any of that [...]

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What is so wrong with reform school?

A Delaware boy, Zachary Christie (age 6), thought it would be “okay” to bring a weapon to school. It is *NOT* okay to bring a knife or any other weapon to school. He was given what some may call a “harsh” punishment. Suspended for 45 days, and ordered to spend those 45 days in a [...]

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Could federal-level “health care reform” be unconstitutional?

I was just thinking to myself, and it came to me. There’s this law that forbids the federal government from interfering in state matters. State agencies are responsible for health insurance, in many ways. Would requiring citizens to have health insurance at the federal level, while states have no such requirements, be illegal?
I know, it [...]

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The “real” problem with the M4 Carbine in U.S. military hands.

I’ve read reports that there have been several “failures” of the M4 Carbine in combat situations recently. This doesn’t really surprise me. Why it doesn’t surprise me, is because it’s been happening for decades. What has also been happening for decades, is folks in the Pentagon claiming it isn’t true, or countering with “propaganda” about [...]

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