Maggie's Farm

Thanks, David Warren - Good Health May Be Bad for You - for commenting on our short piece. A bit from him about the Yankee spirit:

Through Robert Frost and many predecessors, poetic and other, I recognize strengths and weaknesses in the species. Currently I am focusing on strengths.

There is a certain rough-hewn spirit of independence that goes deeper than any politics, and is expressed with a laconic drollness that cannot be defeated by the world. You could not enslave these people. They would not cooperate.

Cooperate only when we want to. Often, our bias is not to.

A US Navy Warship, Yours For $180,000 (h/t Insty)

Robber with Toy Gun Killed by 67 Year-Old Victim with Real Gun

Question for Keynesians: What Are You Doing To Prepare for the Next Cycle?

Rice: Climate Change, Gay Rights Part of National Security Strategy

Wow. Brilliant. No doubt China and Russia are impressed.

NET U.S. JOB GAINS SINCE THE RECESSION HAVE GONE TO FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS

The FCC's Big Internet Power Grab Comes Directly From the White House - Tom Wheeler's Title II net neutrality push is the result of an "unusual, secretive" push from the administration.

Three More Guys Who Won’t Be President

Should Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Go To Jail For Being A Vaccine Denier?

I think there are valid questions about the limits of public health coercion. Vaccines are one thing, but you can call anything "public health."

Related,  Cowpox and the Constitution - Those who deny the science of vaccinations are shirking a duty of citizenship.

Here's what I mean:  What the anti-vaxx backlash can teach us about climate change: We need to be way angrier - Climate change threatens kids, too -- so where's the moral outrage?

106 ways to reduce the size of government 

Another new interview with Thomas Sowell 

We do love that guy

Putin’s Peninsula Is a Lonely Island - No tourists, frightened tatars, and Russians have taken all the jobs. Welcome to Crimea in winter.

OBAMA ISN’T JUST GIVING IRAN THE STORE; HE’S GIVING IT THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Muslim Activists Heckle Ex-Muslim Torture Survivor at Swarthmore College
 U.N.: Islamic State crucifying, beheading, burying alive children

We must strive to be multiculturally tolerant and understanding of different views. Anyway, Christians do it too, right? Heck, we behead adulterers, gays, and blasphemers routinely in our church. It's a lot of fun. The masturbators, we bury alive just like the Muslims but we're running out of space for that in the churchyard and are considering using the Town Dump.