China’s Economy Slowing: PMI Drops To 49.2

Anything below 50 indicates an economy in contraction. From the South China Morning Post: China’s factory activity shrank for the first time in seven months in May as both domestic and external demand softened, while growth in the services sector cooled, pointing to slowing momentum in the world’s second-largest economy. The HSBC/Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index…

Bringing Sharia In Through the Back Door?

EEOC sides with two Muslim truck drivers who refused to deliver loads containing alcohol. Eugene Volokh say no, but I think Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs gets this exactly right. This is a common practice used by the political left to enshrine things that would never pass muster in a election. Via perhaps the greatest…

The Nazi’s Were Meth Heads

The Krauts were pioneers in recreational drugs, apparently: Invading country after country at lightning speed, Hitler’s army had Europe terrified during World War Two. But, as a Nazi soldier’s letter has revealed, it wasn’t just the Fuhrer’s fiery rhetoric which had his troops wired. Military doctors were handing out millions of pills to the troops…