Archive for March, 2009

Does ND HB 1572 Make Us All Murderers?

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Johnathan at j5mc.com seems to think it does.
HB 1572 would literally make anything causing a human cell to die into a murder. So don’t even think about stem cell research.  Or cancer treatment.  Or surgery — wouldn’t want to carelessly slice away a few cells now.
I normally don’t see too much fault with what Johnathan [...]

South Dakota Declares Sovereignty

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

I haven’t seen much about this in the news stream, but the South Dakota Senate voted to approve House Concurrent Resolution 1013 late last week.  All it’s waiting on now is a signature from the Governor.  In a nutshell, the bill is a declaration “Reasserting sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the [...]

Is Ron Paul a Porker?

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

There’s a bit of a dustup going around today about the recently signed Omnibus Appropriations Bill and the earmarks that Ron Paul’s name is attached to.  Some $73 million of the $410 billion is earmarked to go to Paul’s district.  Also of note, Paul voted no on the bill.  Why would he vote no if [...]