The gun at the snowball fight

Washington Post punks out. Because I am petty and anal-retentive, I will point out that the Post didn't "refute" the reporter's story. They couldn't; they could only deny it.

Thanx to Making Light.

Poverty isn't punishment enough

The scary prospect that free abortion might let the poor enjoy sex too much.

Thanx to Pandagon.

The statist drug menace

The human mind is capable of great ingenuity and can combine even the most seemingly contradictory beliefs. I've never met a Catholic Objectivist (the rumors about John C. Wright turned out to be false), but I would not be at all surprised to encounter someone who insisted that the two approaches were entirely compatible and both correct, if properly understood.

Even those who despise libertarians grudgingly admit that at least they smoke dope, or won't put you in jail for it, but now we have "Libertarians Need to Rethink Support for Drug Legalization." What next: liberty through men's room entrapment?