Saying that legislation is necessary because the historic downtown area "gets a little too lively on some nights," City Councilman Richard Veit of St. Charles, Missouri (a St. Louis suburb) has proposed a measure that would ban swearing and other…
Apparently believing that citizens (or at least motorists) are not sufficiently patriotic, a group of lawmakers in Thailand have proposed a new law that would require drivers to stop whenever the national anthem is played, which in Thailand happens every…
Dawn Herb was cited last week for disorderly conduct after a neighbor heard her shouting profanities. Although Dawn (who I’m going to call "Dawn" because calling Dawn "Herb" seems weird) was inside her own home at the time, she admitted…
Among the facts we learned from the GOP candidates’ debate in Michigan last week is that attorneys would have more power than ever if Mitt Romney is elected president. (And no, we don’t have enough already. What kind of a…
All of us have likely had an issue with grading "on the curve" at one time or another, but what is one to do if "the empirical data was quite clear and convincing to any reasonable mind that [one’s] performance…
A giant inflatable rat, to be more specific.
Brave American citizen Jerry Brumbaugh struck a blow for freedom or something on Friday when he sued the nine current members of the United States Supreme Court for making rulings that have violated his constitutional rights. Specifically, all of them…
A legal team in Southern California trying to create a defense exhibit has come under fire for what some might call "thinking outside the box," but others have suggested might be "illegal human experimentation." George Engman is on trial in…
The New York Times reported last week on a newly discovered program funded — but not run — by the Justice Department, which apparently pays two retired detectives to look at "sexual Web sites and other Internet traffic" to see…
Yes, they wanted people to keep quiet about free speech.