Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Rolling Stone details the FBI’s efforts to coax angry young men off of their couches and into terrorist activity.
I’ll let the legal experts sort out whether any particular case is entrapment.  I’m willing to contemplate the possibility, for the sake of argument, that you could have an ideal Platonic sting in which the informant [...]

Rudy Giuli drops out before he terminally pisses off the other GOP candidates. One of those other candidates wins the election. Needs to nominate an attorney general . . .

Isn’t it obvious that agents of the Ludwig von Mises Institute planted the FISA-slurping editorial in Cato Legal honcho Roger Pilon’s name so that their accusations against the “Kochtopus” would sound more plausible? CosmoBeltwayLiberSanchez doesn’t even consider this.
Let’s be clear here: This doesn’t prove that PaleoRockwellitudinarianism is the awesome!!!1!one!!eleven! part of the movement after all, [...]

By Thoreau
Two articles of clothing for the fashionable authoritarian-in-libertarian-clothing:
Here and here.
(Yes, I know, the second one may not be historically correct, but it’s a shirt of the general color that I found with 30 seconds of googling. Find a better one and I’ll update the link.)

By Thoreau
It was brought to my attention in a H&R thread that Roger Pilon at Cato is endorsing immunity for telecoms that broke the law, and renouncing the very idea of requiring warrants to intercept communications:
Obviously, this is no way to conduct the serious business of foreign intelligence. The ever-changing rules — criminalizing transgressions — [...]

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Blackgrd contra Mikulski.

By Thoreau
A neat little article on the physics of viruses.

By Thoreau
You know, I was prepared for a good TV night.  I had an early class, and I’ve had a lot of stuff going on today, so I figured tonight I’d settle back and watch as criminals acting on orders from shadowy businessmen conspire to escape from justice.
Instead we’ve got Bush on TV.
Wait a minute…
Even [...]

By Thoreau
CNN ran an interesting report on undercover inspectors getting fake bombs past the TSA:
The screener then pats him down, running latex-gloved hands over Jason’s legs, arms and torso. And he pats down Jason’s back, including the lower part where the device is concealed.
But Jason explains away the back support. He tells the screener that [...]