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Jan 13, 2025 | 
spectator.org | Eric Peters
There’s a little-known tax that’ll make you want a drink when you find out about it. And it’s actually less a tax than a grift. One that’s used to make Americans pay to subsidize the governments of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The grift works like this: Federal excise taxes on distilled spirits are collected on liquor — specifically, rum — that is produced in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and also internationally. Ostensibly, the revenue is supposed to go to Washington.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 00545-8&sz=64)
cell.com | Michael DiDonato |David Jones |Damien Picard |Ulrike Sommer |Eric Peters |Shelly L. Meeusen | +10 more
ResultsFor an IL-10 molecule to be effective in the treatment of inflammatory disease, a bioactive protein with an anti-inflammatory profile and an extended half-life is needed. To improve the half-life of IL-10, several standard protein engineering approaches exist, notably PEGylation and Fc fusion.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
ww2.motorists.org | Eric Peters |Tom Miller
By Eric PetersLike almost everyone else – and every cop – I “speed.” That is, I often drive faster than whatever the posted speed limit is. I do so not primarily because I am in a hurry; that is a gas-lighting term used, ironically, by the cops who are often in a hurry to catch up to you, in order to hand you a ticket for “speeding.”This is an irony lost on most cops. I “speed” because it’s safer. Because it’s safer to be alert and involved in the act of driving a car.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
ww2.motorists.org | Eric Peters |Tom Miller
By Eric Peters For NMAA riding buddy of mine urges me to buy a disposable bike – though of course he does not call it that. He means a modern bike – which means a bike unlike any of the ones I own, all of which aren’t computers on two wheels. He ticks off all of the modern bike’s advantages, as he sees them. I myself do not see them. But I do see a number of disadvantages, the chief of them being the disposability of modern, computer-controlled bikes. I point to my bikes as a counterpoint.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
ww2.motorists.org | Eric Peters |Tom Miller
By Eric Peters For NMAWould you be OK if a car you bought this year delivered 1-2 percent less gas mileage than it advertised by the end of the year? That’s what you’ll get if you buy an electric vehicle. But for some odd reason, there have been no recalls. No government “action.” Not even any calls for such “action.”Fascinating. If “1-2 percent” per year doesn’t sound like much to you, consider how much “1-2 percent” adds up to after about eight years or so. Now we’re up to about 15 percent.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
ww2.motorists.org | Eric Peters |Tom Miller
• • Car Review, Eric PetersBy Eric Peters For NMAWhen Toyota brought back the Land Cruiser this year, it no longer came standard with a V8. It now comes only with a turbo-hybridized four. If you’d like something more than that – as well as less – Lexus has it. The new GX550 – which is premium-badged (and slightly larger) iteration of the new Land Cruiser comes standard with a turbocharged V6. Without the hybrid assist. Plus a third row – which the new Land Cruiser no longer offers.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
spectator.org | Eric Peters
People old enough to remember the Before Time — i.e., the time when in most everyday matters, people who weren’t causing harm were generally free to do as they liked — know what it was like to be a parent or a child and go for a drive in those times. As opposed to what it’s like now. More finely, what it requires you to have and to pay for now.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
freedombunker.com | Eric Peters |Chris Future
By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management“Imagine what government agencies could look like in 4yrs,” wrote an X employee as a caption for two images, presented side-by-side. On the left was a SpaceX Raptor engine from 2020, the mechanics of it a jumbled mess, wildly intricate, but still impressive, functional. On the right was the 2024 version of that same Raptor engine, its mechanics simple, sleek, as elegant as one could rightly imagine. More powerful, efficient.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
ww2.motorists.org | Eric Peters |Tom Miller
• • Car Review, Eric PetersBy Eric Peters For NMAFor once, a new vehicle costs less than what it used to cost. In the case of the new Toyota Land Cruiser, tens of thousands less than it used to. Of course, there’s a price to be paid for that. But it might be one many don’t mind paying. What It IsThe Land Cruiser is a mid-sized, real-deal SUV – as opposed to a car-based crossover that looks like an SUV. What’s the difference? It’s generally what you can’t see.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
ww2.motorists.org | Eric Peters |Tom Miller
By Eric Peters for NMAMike Valentine – whose name is synonymous with what are arguably the best radar detectors available and who designed the first truly effective one that others then copied – has passed at the much-too-young age of 74. I’ve known Mike since the ’90s, when I interviewed him for The Washington Times. I used to be a car columnist and editorial writer there.
