From The American Independent: A Lansing medical marijuana dispensary is offering medical marijuana patients a choice of a half a gram of medical pot or a marijuana-laced baked good called a “medible” in exchange for registering to vote. On the
Thanks to Jack Webb’s inviting me to write for “Dragnet,” I became a proud member of the WGA back in the late 60s, but the honeymoon came to an unseemly end at a strike meeting a few years later. Because
Ed. Note: Part two of this excellent series runs tomorrow at the same time. — J.N. I will come right out and admit it. I am a geek. I am a hardcore geek. I revel in many different realms of
Obama tried a stimulus and so did we. Now we both have debt problems… Many are predicting that we are seeing the demise of the American economic model and the rise of China’s. To those one might say: not so
Comedy gold or a pathetic partisan ploy can characterize Kathleen Sebelius’s testimony when she attempts to minimize the immense authority granted to the Independent Medicare Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), when so many of us know the raw real deal. On
We all know that the Obama Administration has slowed the progress of oil drilling offshore–in the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and offshore Alaska–supposedly to ensure safety because of the oil spill that occurred in the Gulf
Someone must have imagined that my hopes for improved economic understanding might be excessively optimistic and thus needed to be curbed to restore my normal emotional balance, because that person undertook to smash any such hopes to dust by e-mailing
As was reported in the news last week, Otto, the “last of the Habsburgs”, the son of the last emperor of Austria-Hungary, died recently at the age of 98. Our Austrian correspondent AMT sends this reflection on the ecumenical sentiments
In the summer of 1985, persons within the Reagan administration sold hundreds of anti-tank missiles to Iran in exchange for the release of an American hostage named Benjamin Weir. For more than a year afterward, hundreds upon hundreds more missiles
The world will end August 2nd. Or something like that. Preacher Harold Camping picked 6:00pm May 21st, the Democrats in the Treasury have picked August 2nd. Thus, the parrots in the activist old media have joined in and said that
A wealth manager, appropriately enough, once told me that when it came to life, information came in three categories: What you know, what you don’t know, and what you don’t know that you don’t know. It is the last category
Mark Twain is usually credited with the quip that “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” The same is certainly true of our dependence on foreign, and often unfriendly, sources of energy – particularly when gas
When it comes to former GOP Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, if any ordinary Republican politician could generate as much contemporary free media coverage, including a new high profile cover story from Newsweek, while a positive full length
Click here for Part 1 on Ben Shapiro’s Primetime Propaganda, here for Part 2 on Roger L. Simon’s Turning Right at Hollywood and Vine and here for part 3 on David Mamet’s The Secret Knowledge. A new kind of film
On July 9, the mostly Christian South Sudan will legally and officially separate from the Muslim north and become a new, independent and free country. Fearing loss of its iron clad grip of other non-Arab regions in the north, whose
“War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling that thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he will
While contemplating the momentous event in human history that was the American colonies’ break from Great Britain, John Adams wrote his wife, Abigail, on July 3, 1776 saying that: “the day will be the most memorable in the history of
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and
Glenn Reynolds in today’s Washington Examiner: While Independence Day is about independence from Great Britain, today it’s also associated with more general notions of freedom — individual independence, not just political independence. Unfortunately, America’s political class doesn’t want you independent.
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets070111.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the debt and Tim Geithner’s potential exit from Obama’s cabinet. Then Senator
When Sarah Palin burst upon the national scene and the liberal media attempted to destroy her, it occurred to me that this honest and decent woman was being transformed into a hated Jew. No matter what she said, no matter
“Kate, California is going down! Pack up the kids now! It’s not just California. It’s the whole goddamned world that gone to shit.” (John Cusack, 2012) It’s surprising to me how often it seems like Sacramento wrote the plot of
If all goes as planned, as you read this the wife and I will be loading a moving van full of everything we own in advance of a cross-country move back to our home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of
In the wake of the Rep. Anthony Weiner scandal that ultimately forced the disgraced New York Congressman out of office (at least for the time being), Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) is now the subject of a congressional ethics investigation for
