When Liberty Is Racist
A cornerstone element of the principle of free speech is that speech that one disagrees with, or finds offensive, must be as protected as speech one likes. Many have echoed this premise, with various forms of: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the...
Misplaced Outrage
Greta Thunberg, the sixteen year old darling-du-jour of environmental activism, just got named Time Magazine's Person of the Year, presumably for having the audacity to blare "How dare you!" at the adults who aren't destroying their nations' economies by radically...
Clearing The Air
There are 86 coal power plants currently in operation in the US. Collectively, they have a capacity of 107 GW of electricity, and provided 27% of the nation's total power in 2018. They emit 1.97 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide each year. It is fairly well...
Gaga for Goo-Goo
Back at the turn of the century - the 19th century, that is, a movement arose to battle against graft and corruption in government, by supporting candidates of a reform mindset. They were mockingly called goo-goos, short, of course, for "good-government." The term...
Luxury Beliefs and Lost Lives
A joke/lesson that's been around since pre-Internet days posits two cows within different nations and/or economic systems. It's both funny and instructive (as my calling it a joke/lesson implies, clearly), and one version can be found here. Among all sorts of accurate...
Trump and Transactional Voters
Prior to the last election, a conversation among friends included an "admission" by one, an executive in a large corporation, who noted that the past years under Obama had been good for him economically. His company had done well, he had made money and risen in the...
Greening Away Reality
Those who pay attention to the climate wars know that the green movement has little use for nuclear power, despite its zero carbon emissions, its physically tiny footprint compared to wind and solar, its much lower environmental impact (the massive mining of rare...
Other People’s Rights
When it comes to individual rights, some, to paraphrase Orwell, are 'more equal than others.' In private life and free discourse, it should not alarm us all that much that a political writer prioritizes free speech, a churchgoer prioritizes religious liberty, a...
Harris’s Finger-Pointing Flounce
Kamala Harris, in withdrawing from the Presidential primary, exhibited a gracelessness that I hope dogs her ever and anon for whatever political career she may have left. She accused the American public of racism: You know, essentially, is America ready for a woman...
Reductio Ad Anarchium
Tell me if you've heard this one before: In a conversation about reducing over-regulation or getting government out of the way of people's free exchange of goods and services, someone trots out some "oh, I'm so clever" zinger like "move to Somalia," "people will...
A Day For Perspective
Thanksgiving. The truly American holiday, and one that can be celebrated both religiously and secularly. Its purpose is in its name, and it serves to remind us that we are social creatures, happiest and best-off when connected in positivity and gratitude with our...
Selective Adulthood
A recent kerfuffle on the gossip pages involved the engagement of 65 year old Dennis Quaid to his 26 year old girlfriend. It'll be his fourth marriage and her first. Typing "Dennis Quaid" into Twitter's search field offered, as the third suggestion, "Dennis Quaid...
The Case For Junkie Welfare
America's opioid crisis has been uniquely lethal. A look around the world shows us how other nations have mitigated it much more successfully. For starters, we can say drug policy in America is killing people through failure to adapt, but there are two other affronts...
Abetting Crime
Criminal justice reform, long a cause of libertarians and others who respect the rights of citizens, has in the blink of an eye gone from addressing injustices and prosecutorial excess to condoning lawlessness and abandoning government's fundamental duty to protect...
Quid Pro… So?
Quid Pro Quo. Three monosyllabic Latin words, that mean "something for something." They are dominating the news, aka the Trump Impeachment S***show (fill in the stars as you will), in a binary fashion. The Democrats and others who want Trump defenestrated tell us...
We Know Better
I had dinner with a group of friends last night, and in typical fashion, much of the conversation was political. One friend put forth a surprising (to me) assertion: that it was a proper function of government to provide health care to everyone. He called it a...
A War on Success
The Left tell us, constantly, that they are the only ones who care about The Children. Their solutions to everything involve more government and more spending. For The Children. And, yet, we see proof every day that this assertion is a lie. Especially in public...
Uryens and Leondegrance
Or... Trump the Mundane. A deep-dive into the cobwebbed recesses of my pop culture recollection dug out this snippet from John Boorman's magnificent 1981 film Excalibur, which quite succinctly encapsulates the Trumpian political landscape of today. I witness, daily,...
Faith In Our Institutions
The Trump impeachment tempest has been ebbing and flowing since the moment he won the election - before even his inauguration, it seems. While it dominates the news, it is but one of many other governmental tempests, including a medley of shenanigans surrounding the...
Banning Ignorance
A current, virally popular Internet meme template is "Woman Yelling At A Cat," which depicts Real Housewife of Beverly Hills Taylor Armstrong crying and pointing at a smug-looking (aren't they all?) white cat, with a caption that mocks the woman for reading or getting...
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