Rick Caldwell's blog
On last week's show we discussed a Rasmussen poll in which 61 percent of likely voters do not believe that the federal government possesses the necessary consent of the governed. Meanwhile, 63 percent of what Rasmussen calls the "political class" believes (as they are incentivised to believe) that they do in fact have all the consent they need to impose whatever tyranny they wish.
Radley points out, in a brilliantly simple way, the difference between what happens when people expect government to do something and what happens when they don't. It's called the tragedy of the commons.
where people expect the city to send eventually plows, the road is still snowed. Where the city has no history of sending a plow, and isn’t likely to, residents grabbed shovels, and cleared the road in 24 hours.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/pfpmovementradio/2010/02/08/narchy-time
I want to thank James, Tom, Mandie, and Joe for having me on the show. We had a great discussion.
Had my defective gall bladder removed this morning. I'm Back home already, walking gingerly, and limiting my diet to brothy soup, salad, fruit and water and juice for now. I still can't sit up for the full two hours to host the show tomorrow night. However, I will listen, and I will likely call in at some point.
...because I'm having my gall bladder full of stones carved out of my gut.
Sooooo... Mike has the helm this week, perhaps with a guest co-host to fill my seat. Will Mike stage a hostile coup? Listen in Wednesday night rom 10pm-midnight to find out.
Got this one from Radley, too. He's right, more noise should have been made six months ago, when this happened. Read this language that was added by Democrats to a piece of legislation, after some anti-tax groups succeeded in having it put up to a referendum, then see if you can find what is so terribly, terribly wrong with it:
Finally, some common sense on marijuana laws is coming home to Virginia. And, it's coming from a republican, no less! Not only would H.B. 1136 allow doctors to prescribe marijuana as a medicine, but another bill sponsored by delegate - and pharmacist - Harvey Morgan, H.B. 1134, would go a long way toward relegalizing marijuana in the old dominion. Here's what the bill would do, according to NORML:
