Freedom House has released its annual report rating how free/repressive the countries of the world are based on political rights and civil liberties for their citizens: http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/WoW09/WOW%202009.pdf A good reminder for us to count our blessings that we live in free nations. The worst offenders are listed as being Belarus ( Read more... )

Related to a comment I made in the Iran post, this thing with Michael Jackson’s death being treated as a homicide has my inner Libertarian a little nervous. As much as I believe irresponsible doctors need to be punished, I’m not entirely convinced that it’s really the government’s place to get weird about meds people take of their own free will. If ( Read more... )