The Game She Has Learned
I can hear your groans now. "What, another Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez piece?" It's an open question, in chicken-or-egg fashion, whether AOC's notoriety is the result of the Left's vocal, in-your-face adulation or of the Right's relentless reactions, but that question...
What If TDS Isn’t Enough?
The gaggle of geese that is the current slate of Democratic presidential hopefuls has, with rare exception, been honking a far-left, progressive fantasy list of policy ideas in unison, or perhaps in round, in obeisance to the ironically-named Justice Democrats led by...
The Gender-Neutral Lie
I recently read a string of tweets from several parents (mothers and fathers) who lamented "failure" in their efforts to raise their children in a gender-neutral way. Their failure wasn't one of not allowing the child to choose its own path, but rather a lament that...
Dismissing Discomfort
America's history can be viewed as a long and continuing stream of cultural shifts. Her inception itself was a radical departure from the widely-established forms of governance the colonists knew and lived under, towards one that was more egalitarian, representative...
New York City’s Crab Antics
Several seemingly unrelated policies being instituted in New York City illustrate the same cycle: the elimination of "color blind" testing for elite schools, the restricting of charter schools, and the restricting of smartphone ride-sharing. Their commonality? They...
Racists, Racists Everywhere!
A "you couldn't make this up" imbroglio has been roiling in New York City this year. It involves Mayor De Blasio's efforts to change the way admissions to New York City's handful of "elite" public high schools - the gems of an otherwise troubled public education...
Prohibition Kills
As I perused the most recent (April, 2019) issue of Reason, I came across a statistic that made my jaw (figuratively, of course) hit the floor: The annual rate drug of overdose deaths in Portugal is now 1 per 170,000 citizens. The figure is 33 times higher in the...
Reparations Cogitations
The crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates, whose number (25 as of this drafting) seems to be growing as quickly as the number of genders, is rather interesting in its lack of diversity. Oh, it certainly checks off many of the identity boxes: (race,...
Normalizing Impeachment- Scraping The Guardrail
Greater use of impeachment, to balance the President's outsized power, is not necessarily a bad idea. Especially when contrasting the office's scant accountability; with presidential precedents of causing havoc, with examples of incompetence, like the Iraq invasion....
Uncle Joe and the Long Knives
There's something interesting going on in the secret, woke-filled rooms where the Left's agenda is crafted and propagated. Joe Biden, who many on the Left lament, with 20/20 hindsight, might-have-been-their-President, is now approaching persona-non-grata status. He's...
Selling A Free Lunch
It should astound me that, even as Venezuela's socialist dream collapses into a humanitarian disaster, the front-runner for the Democratic Presidential nomination is a proudly declarative socialist, and the de facto policy voice of the party is a young socialist from...
Selfish Charity
I recently had a conversation with a good friend about the selfish motives of some who engage in charitable giving. Specifically, he felt those who made anonymous donations were better people than those who received recognition for their donations, whether that be a...
A Better Green New Deal
De facto Democratic policy setter Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sponsors an absurd piece of legislation, one that would put the entire economy under direct government control, and one that's detached from any sort of economic, technological, fiscal, or scientific reality....
Watermelon Politics
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pulled a fun little prank on the Democrats yesterday, by scheduling a vote on their Green New Deal. Take a moment and read or skim the text. It's not that long. I'll call attention to three bits. First, the opening bullet point:...
Let The Squirming Begin
There's an aspect of human instinct that leads us to resist admission of error. Whether this is a feature or a flaw is a debate for another time and place, but we don't have to weigh the merits of the behavior to recognize that it exists. It's rooted in cognitive...
Mueller and the Narcissists
So, the long-expected Special Prosecutor investigation has finally concluded, and his report is in the hands of the Attorney General. I'm content to wait for the report, or a summary/Reader's Digest version, to be released, but I appear to be in the minority in that...
Normalizing Impeachment – Disarmament
From the day of the inauguration, talk of impeaching the President has featured in the national discourse. The theme is a dominant one with the new Democratic House of Representatives. The crawl of impeachment tidbits daily dissects CNN's broadcast (for over two years...
Teaching Perception
Back in the days of my (relative) youth, aka my mid-20s, my extended circle of friends included someone (John, I believe was his name) who sang in a band. In a group conversation one day over beers, I found out that he never learned to play an instrument, despite...
Fad Economics
Some of you have heard Economics described as "the dismal science," and may find truth in the phrase. The origin, though, speaks to a less obvious intent. Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle came up with the phrase in the mid 1800s, but his reason for it was rather...
The Middle Management Monster
There's an old joke that goes, "Those that can, do. Those that cannot, teach. Those that cannot teach, administrate." While, superficially, it's a knock on teachers, it needn't and shouldn't be taken that way. How many coaches do you see who are capable of performing...
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