Peggy Welch, my erstwhile opponent for Indiana Representative, has sponsored numerous pieces of nanny-state legislation in her 3+ terms in office. I’ve commented on many of these before, both as a private citizen and as her GOP opponent. Often, her proposals are based upon pure emotionalism, backed by junk science (if emotionalism alone [...]
My wife came across a news item in the Bloomington Herald Times a week or so ago about a diner in Martinsville that was resisting that town’s no-smoking ordinance. Bloomington and Monroe County successively rammed through ordinances essentially banning all indoor smoking in anything but private homes last year and apparently Martinsville followed suit [...]
According to the latest Jane’s Defense Weekly, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is planning to deploy a solid-state battlefield laser in the 15-25 kW power range by 2008 (see, “U.S. eyes fast fielding of attack laser”, 6 July 2005, paid subscription required). The lasers would be ground-based but would bounce their beams off [...]