I’ve completed filing my US tax return, which is due on Monday for all 136 million of us eligible working adults who haven’t requested an extension from the IRS. I feel outrage at having to comply with such a behemoth taxation system, but not nearly as much as I should. ...
Read MoreSnapshots of Reason 5
1) A sorrowful letter to my local paper from a citizen close to losing his home has escalated my anger at the city government like nothing else. He is one of many whose property tax has tripled within the past two years, leaving him barely able to afford to live ...
Read MoreProstitution: will it be legal in the UK?
An excellent article appeared into today’s Guardian by Rabbi Jonathan Romain, minister of Maidenhead Synagogue. It was a short feature on the history of prostitution, particularly that occurring in biblical accounts throughout the Old Testament. Apparently, “…the government is trying to develop strategies to tackle…†prostitution. Romain’s point is made ...
Read MoreThe BBC White Paper Rant
The BBC’s future role, function and structure have been set out in a White Paper published by the UK government. I’m looking at a copy of it now. It is nothing short of insulting. It’s insulting to consumers of British media. It’s insulting to legitimate British broadcasters. It’s insulting to ...
Read MoreStupid Black Women
Here are a few of my opinions: 1. Black men are generally better boxers than white men 2. Vegetarians tend to be thinner than meat eaters 3. Asians are on average more intelligent than white people 4. Socialists are usually much more angry and unhappy than capitalists 5. Men tend ...
Read MorePutting All Your Eggs In One Basket
On 3rd October 2003 Lorraine Hadley and Natallie Evans lost a High Court bid to become pregnant using frozen embryos after their former partners withdrew consent. Mr Justice Wall decided that the men, Howard Johnston and Wayne Hadley, had rights in this case that cannot be overturned. He didn’t really ...
Read MoreWorkers United
Workers United Shall Not Be Defeated! (Nor Shall They Be Rational) We have recently had another fine example of the horrendously naïve, blinkered, and irrational philosophy of socialism at work here in Northern Ireland as 200 postal workers walked out of a Royal Mail depot in Belfast causing two and ...
Read MoreA word about rights
I’ve noticed a fundamental misunderstanding among many who talk about rights, on both the Left and Right of the political spectrum. Firstly, as a libertarian, when I say that it is someone’s ‘right’ to do something, I am dealing with that which affects the ability of other human beings to ...
Read MoreAnimal Wrongs
People who don’t eat meat make me almost as nervous as Palestinians wearing backpacks. I just don’t trust the buggers. Why on earth would any human being give up eating meat? OK, some people don’t like how it tastes, and I don’t mind such types. But what about that lot ...
Read MoreI Love Tesco
A cross-party group of MP’s published a report last week in which they claimed that we have 10 years to “save the high street.†They tell us that once the big supermarkets kill off the smaller stores they will raise their prices, and this means that supermarket expansion should not ...
Read MoreUPDATE: Firearms used in self-defence
Several times over the past few months, I have turned the attention of this blog to the issue of firearms, and the erroneous approach of some people to gun law and gun control. There is an oft-repeated claim of gun control advocates (gun control being laws which aim to curtail ...
Read MoreFive easy steps to becoming a liberal
1) Oppose anything that favours wealthy, white men and their corporations Whites are the most depraved race on the face of the Earth. The male of the race are particularly deplorable, and should they also be wealthy, you will know that they are the primary cause of all problems in ...
Read MoreA Day In The Life Of The Guardian
A regular portion of my morning involves scanning the day’s news from various sources: American news networks, AP wire by satellite, radio talk, the blogosphere, the American and British press. So quite often I glance through Guardian Unlimited, the online feed of that annoying leftist British rag, The Guardian. Why ...
Read MoreThe buckshot stops here!
Unbelievable. The reaction to this story today about US Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shooting a member of his group while hunting is nothing short of bizarre. The story goes like this: Cheney is out with a bunch of fellow hunters on the ranch of his friends the Armstrongs in ...
Read MoreIslamo Crazy Cartoon Frenzy
Let me join the chorus of sensible voices out there in the blogosphere and reiterate my disdain of the actions of Muslims around the world right now. As many within the Islam religion are still violently protesting the publishing of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper, there ...
Read MoreDefending concealed handguns: Part II
In addition to some regular hate mail, I’ve received an email in response to a recent article (January 31st, “Why defend the right to own or carry a gun?â€). In that article, I made the claim that concealed weapons permit holders are responsible in part for reduced crime rates in ...
Read MoreWhy defend the right to own or carry a gun?
I received my concealed weapons permit yesterday from the Arizona Department of Public Safety. In the United States, concealed weapons permits allow ordinary citizens to carry a handgun in public areas, concealed from view. To many people who don’t live in areas where such a practice is normal – like ...
Read MoreResponse to BBC Sunday Sequence: Munich
Sunday Sequence team- Your web poll is not an accurate portrayal of what most people think. The question was, “Is the assassination of terrorists by government agents ever legitimate?” And, as of today, your website visitors think that it isn’t, by 74% to 26%. Bizarre. And it doesn’t demonstrate that ...
Read MoreSnapshots of Reason 4
I’d rather have started 2006 with a humdinger of a post, attacking some leftist lunatic, or lecturing conservatism on how wrong it is. But politics is just plain dull at the moment, and other current events are decidedly unworthy of Voice of Reason comment, or of podcasting. So let me ...
Read MoreCREED 2005
Throughout the ages, leaders and organisations have formed creeds at pivotal times in history which set out what they believe. They are statements which derive from some kind of principal, which usually don’t attempt to make any justification for those beliefs, but which set out clearly their positions on the ...
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