Unqualified Offerings

Kerry Howley at least avows some puzzlement as to why, in her personal experience, "locovorism" seems to have supplanted "fair trade" as the current fashion in food activism. In addition to some possibilities she doesn’t consider – Kerry’s own life has changed to the point where she just runs into locovores more than she sees [...]

By Thoreau
As is noted in the comments downblog, if Obama were to try to exercise some of the “inherent powers of the executive” and torture people, wiretap Americans without warrants, etc., two things would be true:
1) The Republicans would immediately file articles of impeachment.
2) If you believe in limited government, civil liberties, the [...]

By Thoreau
As Radley Balko notes, the Cobb County, GA sheriff has a new and dangerous toy that could not possibly escalate into any sort of abuse or isolated incident:

However, as a commenter noted, there’s a more cost-effective alternative:

No blood for energon!

Via Sully, an incident of "Islamist" gay-bashing recently in DC:
According to a police report filed in court, the gay man who was struck with the bottle and a friend had been walking along the C&O Canal near the 1100 block of 33rd Street, N.W., at about 3 a.m. Oct. 3, when they were approached by [...]

Per Sarah Baxter in the London Times, Sarah Palin guesses she’s got to live her life on her own. Per Baxter, McCain wants to dial back the anti-Obama fury of the last week, while Palin thinks McCain is wimping out. Meanwhile, the McCain side notices that "Palin is no longer helping to attract women and [...]