The Script Has Flipped
A recent Wall Street Journal article puts forth the argument that social justice warriors are genuine and sincere in their belief sets and in the laundry-list/word-salad complaints and accusations they routinely lob at the rest of us. The author urges us to listen to...
Cuomo Commands Unicorns to Fart
New York's despotic Governor Andrew Cuomo, in what I surmise is a long-term effort to build a record of woke ahead of a Presidential run, has utilized the power of the state's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) (which governs waterways, among other things)...
Bug-Nuts and Bat-Shit
Or... Why the Democrats Need to Impeach Trump Excluding a smattering of anarchists who live in their parents' basements, there's pretty broad agreement that a core government function is the protection of individuals' rights. Among the most basic is the prosecution...
Chasing Your Tail To Death
aka, The Polypharma Syndrome The latest phase of America's opioid epidemic has killed more Americans than the Vietnam war. By all accounts it is spreading A new study looks at why: partly, and paradoxically, it's because we have more access to the pharmaceuticals we...
Rules For Rules
Consider this oddity. In New York, if you purchase one bagel at a bagel store, it is not subject to sales tax... provided you purchase it intact. A bagel with cream cheese, or butter, or even simply sliced in half is subject to sales tax. Why is this? Because an...
Dumping Due Process
An interesting thing happened yesterday. Donald Trump's lawyers made a point. Yes, I went for the cheap laugh, but it's not the point in the context of the impeachment circus, but the broader illumination that point sheds on a very troubling aspect of the Left's...
This I Believe
My local NPR affiliate regularly asks its listeners to contribute, and read aloud on the air, an essay on the theme "This I Believe." Coming from NPR, you can imagine which kinds of beliefs they might choose to implicitly endorse with their megaphone, and ideology...
Language Thieves
Today I'm going to take issue with two phrases from contemporary political discourse: "wealth redistribution" and "gun buybacks." Both are popular ideas on the Left, and both carry the same insidious deceit, one that is both wrong on its face and emblematic of a...
Bipartisan Warmongers and the Withdrawal Follies
It should be a difficult thing to go to war. The decision to engage the nation's military in a conflict, where death and destruction are not only certain, but the actual goal, should never be taken lightly or casually. And, I'm sure that our leaders, past and present,...
The Tyson Tenet
If you play in the on-line political sandbox, as I do, it's inevitable that you will be the subject of personal insults, derogations, and impugnments, often decoupled from any actual counterpoint or rebuttal to your comment. The likelihood and quickness of this sort...
The New Puritans
The Babylon Bee, a brilliantly funny satire website authored by Christians, hit the big time recently when the folks at Snopes, a fact-checking and debunking website (that has drawn criticism for ideological bias) started deconstructing some of the Bee's jokes and...
Whiskey and Car Keys
People, in general, prefer easier over more difficult, even if the former doesn't align with their job or their values. People that work for the government are no different than you and I in this regard. The latest example is found in a letter from Attorney General...
Packing The Flag
50 States. Such a nice, round number. Even makes for a good looking flag. Sure, the WWII-era 48-state flag offers a greater appeal to the rectilinearly-obsessed, but the 6-5-6-5-6-5-6-5-6 array has both symmetry and artistic appeal. 50 States also gives us 100...
Some Simple Math
Almost every day, I read a story of another restaurant forced to close its doors due to a minimum wage increase. None of these stories, however, seem to penetrate the progressive zeitgeist, as evinced by the near-universal support for a national $15 minimum wage (or...
Trade War Blues
As someone who's 'of a certain age,' and who has been attempting to save and invest money for retirement for several decades, I've grown a bit weary of the financial news outlets' method of reporting market and stock performance. Specifically, they talk a lot more...
The Drug Warrior’s Catch-22
An open-eyed look at the history of drug prohibition makes it pretty clear that the bans on recreational drugs were born of a combination of puritanism and racism, then nurtured by opportunistic politicians, selfish crusaders, and rent-seekers of various stripes. Half...
‘Red Flag’ Red Flags
The aftermath of every national-news shooting in America produces a standard refrain: People who are anti-gun make strident demands for more regulation, and people who are pro-gun resist such demands. The former insist we have to "do something" to address mass...
Globalized Idiocy
A friend shared a meme today. "Jamie," sporting a hammer-and-sickle next to her name, posits a question about magically solving hunger, climate change, and broken homes by curtailing millionaires' and billionaires' power and money, and dares people to support that...
The Usual Suspect
The Bible tells us that "there is nothing new under the sun," and indeed that adage is reflected in the world around us. Pop culture tells us the same stories time and again, stories that themselves are rooted in tropes, i.e. 'commonly recurring literary and...
Normalizing Impeachment- Lonnegan’s Complaint
In the movie "The Sting," the heroes goad the heavy, Doyle Lonnegan, into a blind vendetta by out-swindling him. Lonnegan's complaint: "What was I supposed to do, accuse him of being a better cheat than me?," is the position of both parties, on matters a more...
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