The Myth of Collective Management
Park Slope, Brooklyn, is one of those neighborhoods that all Brooklynites (I am one, born and raised) know of, both in location and reputation, even if they've barely ever set foot there. Its current reputation is as the epicenter of new-monied NYC wokeness (the old...
Creating Six-Figure Hobos
Working as a paramedic, I've seen systemic failures in our way of managing homeless that combine ineffectuality with breathtaking expense. I've known individual homeless people whose use of the emergency services have cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of...
Selling Schooling
Question: What do you get when you have a clown car's quantity of Presidential aspirants under the Democratic Party banner? Answer: A cavalcade of giveaway and spending promises. Kamala Harris, perhaps feeling left out in the cold by the loss of her front-runner...
Blowing Bubbles
Sure as the sun rises in the morning, the nattering ninnies that have been stretching the Overton Window leftward produce pandering policy proposal after pandering policy proposal. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, dubbed the Nutty Professor and Bronx...
Cory Booker’s Jobs and Housing Program
One of the inevitable results of a massively crowded Presidential candidate field is the proclamation of audacious and outrageous policy positions, as hopefuls compete for attention and to differentiate themselves from each other. The latest in-your-face, "bold" idea...
I’m From The Government…
... and I'm here to help. Ronald Reagan famously declared these the most terrifying words in the English language. His quip embodied his form of conservatism, and ably summarized the repeated (and, as most libertarians will tell you, inevitable) failures of government...
Our Rat Culture
Or... The Rise of the Hall Monitors Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt did Joe Rogan's podcast back in January, and a snippet from that airing was helpfully offered to me by Youtube this morning. The topic of that moment was the "when" of the advent of the social...
Venezuela and Progressive Bigotry
Even as the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela devolves to military suppression of the people and teeters on civil war, our own socialist-wannabes continue to promise free this, free that, and government jack boots on the necks of all those people and businesses that...
One Simple Question
The New York Times has a long and well-established history of contempt for the state of Israel and for anything on her side of Israeli-Palestinian (and more broadly, Israeli-Arab) issues. Her editors had a bridge-too-far moment this past week when they ran a cartoon...
The Six-Figure Hobo
Most of us know that the American way of managing homelessness is ineffectual. What is less well known is how expensively ineffectual it is. What we spend on our way (calling it a "system" is laughable)) could provide for a system that works better, many times over,...
Tolerating Cash
My Facebook feed recently offered me one of those "red meat" posts intended to stoke outrage and mockery. In this instance, it was purportedly (and I stress purportedly - too many people have no qualms about making stuff up, and too many more have no qualms about...
The Felon’s Vote
Bernie Sanders briefly grabbed the national headlines by proposing that prison inmates be permitted to vote in elections. His position is an extension of current law in his home state of Vermont (and in Maine), where a citizen never loses the right to vote, even while...
Don’t You Dare Succeed
The effort to change the way New York City's elite public high schools admit students provides us not only with a window into the progressive's world view, but also with some insight as to the demands placed on our culture's "oppressed" identity groups. In modern...
Screw The Poor, Revisited
Our progressive politicians love to assert that they, and they alone, care about the poor and working classes. They bray about income and wealth inequality, and offer up plan after plan to "restore justice" in society by taking from the rich. They offer giveaway after...
Another National Suicide
Let's ponder a collection of choices: 1 - A nation commits to a "green" energy agenda, to combat global warming. It emphasizes and subsidizes wind and solar power generation. It starts shutting down coal plants. In doing so, it dismisses the questions regarding the...
Is Obstruction of a Political Prosecution A Thing?
We should impeach our Presidents more often than we do. Given the extent of Presidential powers, impeachment should be more common, not less. Impeachment should be "normalized." It should not be harder to relieve a President of duty than a Starbuck's barista....
Take and Destroy
The scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail between King Arthur and the anarcho-syndicalist filth farmers ends with Arthur calling Dennis a "bloody peasant." Dennis then declares: Oh, what a giveaway. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? A raft of ideas and...
Charity’s Scolds
Almost instantly after the devastating fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris captured world-wide attention, French (and other) billionaires started pledging large sums of money towards restoration. That was followed up by countless other pledges, large and small,...
Mueller and My Shocked Face
Yesterday, the full-but-redacted Mueller report dropped, and to the surprise of absolutely no one, the Republicans screamed "total exoneration" and the Democrats screamed "impeachable offenses." The truth? As with the totality of Trump's tweets and public...
Free College and Free Speech
The interruption of a stand-up comic's performance by event organizers at Columbia University late last year served, obviously, as a reminder that college campuses remain places of intolerance and hostility to anything resembling diversity of thought. Nimesh Patel, a...
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