Author Archives: Oscar Gordon

Malo Periculosam Libertatem Quam Quietum Servitium

Why do airline pilots go through security screening? If they want to down a plane, all they have to do is nose it down hard right after take-off, or during landing. Worrying that they’ll smuggle a bomb or gun on-board … Continue reading

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Why bad cops get a break

Radley explains Related: SEAL who dropped a grenade on a hostage during a high-risk rescue attempt will likely face harsher penalties than a cop who killed a civilian in a low risk raid.

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Audio Zoom

This is a whole lot of cool, and just a little bit scary. (Think surveillance implications)

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Oh those Evil Logging Companies!

They are gonna destroy save the Amazon Rain Forest! Wait … what!? (You just know some eco-weenies are gonna lose their shit over this.  I wonder how long until ELF starts firebombing the camps, or spiking the trees)

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Banks LIKE Moral Hazard

And create it

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Elitism, right & left (mostly left)

One last note about my own brushes with liberal elitism. In the summer of 1973, as an 18-year-old anticipating college that September, I worked in a biology lab at Princeton University. My duties including mopping the floor, feeding the rats, … Continue reading

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What are our Presidents worth

Values in today’s dollars very interesting

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Thanks Robb

I’m never eating chicken nuggets or patties again

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This is a fantastic idea

It should be a constitutional amendment to require the government to provide every taxpaying household one of these.

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Damned if you do

Damned if you don’t

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