Apparently Weyco is not alone in banning employees from smoking, not just at work, but at all.[1] Larry Elder also moves towards the humorous in comparing some of the statistics about smokers to some of those about democrats. The one example that struck me was the banning of smokers, not because of the health risks and related expenses to the employer, but because of the image that smokers have. Wow!, and here I thought that Weyco was extreme!

[1] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/le20050505.shtml

Thomas Sowell reminds us that much of what is called “black” culture today originates and was common to the worst of southern society in general,[1] the “white trash,” the “Georgia Crackers,” and so on. Which correlates nicely to the fact that this “culture” does not transcend continents all that well, and certainly does not apply all that much to most of the immigrants. But liberals are about emotion, not logic.

[1] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050505.shtml

Michelle Malkin reports on the conviction of some democrats in what sounds like a very sizable corruption case.[1] I would tend to bet that this sort of thing is far more common than is good for us. I am also positive that it was a politically motivated investigation. Republicans only investigate democrats, and democrats only investigate republicans. Both go more or less party lines (as is amply demonstrated as the democrats forced an investigation of Tom DeLay, which he widened into a general investigation, which, surprise surprise, turned up democrats doing the same thing (as well as other republicans)). Along the same lines, I have seen a friend of my father’s imprisoned for much less, for evidence my father maintained all along was fabricated. If someone wants to find something, the higher up in government you go, its either there to be found, or they will make it found. Either you are dirty, or they are, such is politics.

[1] http://michellemalkin.com/archives/002385.htm

Everyone with any sense knows that the Constitution says nothing about funding the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Arts, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, so on. The Federal Government is, by any sane reading of the constitution (I.E. not insanely extending “necessary and proper”), incredibly limited in scope. So since the electorate demonstrably does not care, why does Terence Jeffrey think that merely pointing the fact of unconstitutional spending once again will get anyone upset, inform anyone of anything new, or otherwise be worth writing?[1]

[1] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/terencejeffrey/tj20050504.shtml

Most people will not question the idea that black families earn less, on average, than white ones. Democrats use this to advance the idea that discrimination still exists. Star Parker, herself a black woman (to defuse the idea that I am coming up with these ideas all on my own), proposes some alternative reasons why this might be.[1] A much higher percentage of broken families, and a higher percentage of AIDS (which is a behavioral disease remember, you have to be promiscuous or drug using to get it) go a long way to explain things, if you happen to believe, as I do, that the family is the basic building block of a stable and prosperous society.

[1] http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/sp20050504.shtml

Japan, with its huge press of people, has a very high level of complaints from women about the liberties some men have taken in the train cars.[1] Predictably, some men are complaining, but I really do not see another viable solution, given the press. They could institute lower maximum occupancies, but they would have a very hard time enforcing them, it would basically require someone standing at each door letting people in and out slowly enough that they could be counted. In other words, it would slow down service incredibly, raise prices (wages cost), and lower the total capacity. So as I was saying, I really do not see a way around this. Of course, this totally flies in the face of men and women being identical. ☺

[1] http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=8422026&type=entertainmentNews

Ars utterly dismisses everything the Discovery Institute and Access Research Network have produced and worked for, apparently without even reading any of their work. Of course, evolution is such a “fact” that any challenge to it clearly means you are insane. Yeah, right.

Law.com has up a very funny article on “Pro Se” law suits[1], which Jenn tells me is when the person represents him or her self. While I think it is necessarily a biased and misprepresentative view of such suits, it is a funny read.

[1] http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1114798472943