Year: 2013
The Outrageous Park Doctrine
For some reason, the folks at Public Citizen sent me a hardcopy of their Health Letter, and at the back they have a feature titled “Outrage of the Month!” This month’s example titled “More About Drug Industry Lawlessness” by Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D. is about regulatory violations by pharmaceutical companies, and it’s definitely outrageous, but… Read more
The State of the Union in 2013
The official Whitehouse web page on the State of the Union speech asks as to give our responses, so as is the tradition at Windypundit, I have a few thoughts. In a break from tradition, however, instead of posting the whole speech, I’ll just post a few excerpts Tonight, thanks to the grit and determination… Read more
On the Significance of Mass Shooters
Over at Reason, Nick Gillespie takes a look at spree-killer (and ex-cop) Christopher Dorner’s “manifesto” and pronounces it useless: If there is a message buried deep within Dorner’s incoherent litany of recriminations, anger, and random name-checks, it’s this: People who go on shooting sprees typically tell us very little about society at large. They are… Read more
ICE Agents Got That Can’t-Throw-People-In-Jail Blues
My previous post on immigration discussed the Obama administration’s proposal for immigration reform. I wasn’t thrilled with it, and I laid much of the problem with the abusive use of power by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. So now today I read that Chris Crane, president of the ICE employees’ union, wants its agents… Read more
Taking a Look at Obama’s Immigration Reform
I just got an email from Cecilia Muñoz, who is the Director of President Obama’s Domestic Policy Council, outlining the administration’s proposal for immigration reform. Rather than use the abbreviated description in the email, I’ll use the slightly wordier summary on the Whitehouse web site: FACT SHEET: Fixing our Broken Immigration System so Everyone Plays… Read more