Sunday Musings #2
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of a recurring (and likely irregular) series of quick-hits. Because, not everything needs a thousand words. Thanks for reading! Eco-Whiteness I've been seeing some buzz lately about how the green movement is so white, minorities are...
Socialist Gaslighting
Many of us have heard the term "gaslighting." Some of us even know what it means, and what its origin is. For the record, the Wikipedia definition: Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a...
Incarcerating The Ill – An Introduction
This article is the first in a series on the interplay between drug abuse, crime and mental illness. Issues will be individually illustrated by my experiences as a paramedic. - EDN The USA incarcerates more people than the rest of the developed world combined. Is it...
Blind Faith
A recent "warning" editorial in The Economist cautioned against a Sanders presidency, and the unicorn fart/pixie dust basis (my words, not the Economist's) for his massive expansion of government largesse. I added a comment of concurrence, pointing out that Bernie's...
Bernie-Bros, Meet William Hauser
Across the political sphere, I hear a common refrain: 'I like Bernie Sanders because he's sincere and honest.' And, yes, it is true that Bernie's stuck to the same message throughout his political life. He is indeed a true believer. That his true belief is an ideology...
Bernie’s Health Care Conceit
One of the cornerstones of Democratic Party Presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders' campaign is the full nationalization of America's health insurance. He promises that, by not only creating his "Medicare for All" program, but also prohibiting private health...
Tulsi Gabbard as Microcosm
With the results of the New Hampshire primaries in, and with their doubling as Iowa's, after the debacle there, some patterns emerge: Amy Klobuchar's stock gained greatly. With the party at knives-out at everyone over diversity (everyone but themselves, until New...
The Robots Aren’t Coming
A few years back, I crossed a demographic Rubicon. I turned 50. In that instant, my societal relevance plummeted. Marketers, pollsters, and countless other makers and trackers of taste, trends, and zeitgeist lost interest in me. That's OK, since I've been losing...
Faux Foie Gras Follies
To a consumer of libertarian bloggage, the observation of the government getting something wrong would be a betrayal of bland banality. But New York City's foie gras ban is not just wrong, it is a case study in the ecosystem of government wrongness. The most obvious...
Sunday Musings #1
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a recurring (and likely irregular) series of quick-hits. Because, not everything needs a thousand words. Thanks for reading! Marked Forever Hot on the heels of President Trump's impeachment acquittal by the Senate (and, truth be...
To Serve, or to Rule?
William McGurn, over at the Wall Street Journal, recently pondered why Democratic Presidential hopeful Amy Klobuchar has declared that won't release her list of potential Supreme Court judges unless and until after she wins the Presidency. While it was standard...
Death By Lawfare
It is fitting this country be fraught, to the point of possible division, by our legal dysfunction. Our losing principle and clarity to our legal arms races are undermining the traditional foundations of the nation. The evolution is only emphasized by the latest...
Fruit Of The Poisonous Tree
The University of California at Berkeley, the place where woke happened decades before everywhere else, recently woke up to the fact that its law school carried a name of a racist. What was formerly the John Boalt Law School is now merely The Law Building. A...
The European Hostage Crisis
Imagine a land rich in carbon energy, that won't mine or drill for it. Imagine that land, currently enjoying safe and clean nuclear power, shutting down its reactors. Imagine that land also shutting down its coal plants. Imagine that land struggling to keep up with...
Identity Politics’ Inherent Bigotry
A recent statement by President-Emeritus Obama set one of my illustrious friends on a rampage. She correctly derided his assertion that: I'm absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement...
Paying for Prejudice
The women's rights movement did a bit of recent headline grabbing when Virginia's new-blue government ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. That the deadline for ratification passed decades ago (probably) makes this a symbolic gesture, although I'm sure many lawyers...
Tilting At Ghost Guns
The phrase "ghost gun" evokes spooky, sinister, and seedy-underground images of nefarious types doing Bad Things, especially in the minds of folks who aren't well versed in firearms knowledge and/or suspicious of guns in general. It's one you may have heard voiced,...
Besieged By Our Mentees
Another war, with yet another Middle Eastern adversary, this time Iran, seems closer than ever. Iran's response to the killing of their hybrid-war-terrorism mastermind, Qasam Soleimani, seems a calculated saving of face, but the bloodshed is unlikely to end there. The...
Too Big To Be Cancelled
A couple writers over at The Post Millennial chimed in over the recent JK Rowling kerfuffle (for those unaware, JK caught the wild eye of the woke horde by tweeting support for a (female) researcher who got fired for stating that biological sex is real. Comparing the...
The Left Goes LP
There's an old gag about and among libertarians - that our favorite pastime is denouncing each other over trivial differences in view or belief. Indeed, no matter how hard I stump for libertarian ideas or for policy movements in the direction of liberty, I'm...
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