Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 77

Texas school choice

Anti-choice activists in Texas are concerned that letting parents choose which schools to send their children to would remove all accountability from those schools.

Koulikoro to Malaybalay

The American Peoples Encyclopedia has the best end words that I have seen on an encyclopedia. They are almost syllogisms.

Essential Revolution: The Return of the Republicans

The crime of the day is when you do it again.

Big government demands a nanny state

Big government ensures that voters will demand a nanny state. They can’t afford not to police their neighbors when they pay for the poor choices their neighbors make.

GU24 to Edison adapter

The GU24 adapter for our hall light arrived from Amazon last week. It works great.

The Elements of Journalism

Now that the Internet empowers readers to check the veracity of news reports, journalists need to come up with more and better justifications for their bias.

Stephen Colbert’s Christian nation

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t enforce Christian values, then we should just give up and admit that… we don’t want to teach creationism in schools or to protect the unborn.

Oh, wait. Did you expect something about taxes and charity?

Eucalyptus development ends, removed from app store

Jamie Montgomery has stopped selling the Eucalyptus Gutenberg reader.

National Review supports seller-location-based sales tax

The National Review now supports an Internet sales tax based on the seller’s location rather than the buyer’s.

A very long suspicion

It is very dangerous to relax requirements of a speedy trial. The longer it takes for a trial to go to court—and even worse, the longer it takes to even make an accusation—the more it hurts innocent defendants.