Imagine going to the video store to rent a copy of your favorite hunting show, only to find the shelves bare. When you ask the clerk where they are, he tells you that the films are now illegal and that you can’t buy or rent them anymore. 

This may sound like something out of 1984, but in United States v. Robert J. Stevens, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide this fall if photos like the one above, or video that shows hunters shooting at game, violate a 1999 federal law (18 USC  § 48) that bans depictions of animal cruelty.

In a program that values timeliness above all else, decisions involving more than a million applicants have been slowed, and hundreds of thousands of needy people have waited months for checks.

The majority (92%) of advertisers are using Internet advertising in their media campaigns followed by print advertising at 88 percent, according to a new LinkedIn Research Network/Harris Poll.

At the same time, less than half are using radio advertising (46%), television advertising (46%) and mobile advertising (39%). The Harris poll found there is a regional difference as advertisers in the South are more likely to use radio advertising (57%) and television advertising (56%) while those in the West are least likely to use both (39% each). 

“In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.”  Herbert Spencer “In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.” Ludwig Von Mises “The promise of American capitalism is that it makes people richer, freer and more independent.  But since the introduction of the Fed, the currency in which Americans keep score has so addled the figures, we scarcely know if we are winning or losing.  The dollar we knew as a child in the 1950’s is only worth a tenth as much as today.”  Bill Bonner“Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers workers clerks teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to earn as much as they can. But it censures the capitalists and entrepreneurs for their greed.” Ludwig Von Mises

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“The morality police are at it again!” Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert declared on his show Tuesday night about reports that former vice president Cheney might be targeted by probes into torture and the recently exposed CIA hit squad program.

The faux right wing pundit said, “The vice president having his own assassination squad is no huge surprise. The huge surprise is he didn’t include cannibalism.”