Virtue Signal Sleight-of-Hand
A couple months ago, Amazon declared that it would pay all its employees at least $15 a hour. It cannot be coincidence that Amazon picked the very wage that progressives are demanding be set as a national minimum via legislation, so the Amazon move reeks of...
Unstable Perfection
Most of us know that the socialist and communist nations of the 20th century inflicted a horrible death toll on the human race (over a hundred million dead, by any informed reckoning, and possibly over 200 million by some counts). Most of us also know that the rise of...
Trump, Mid-Stream
The midterm elections are over, and where the Trump phenomenon began as a radical overturning of our political status quo ("right diagnosis, wrong treatment," I argued at the time), the traditional rules of American politics return: the incumbent President's party is...
Clowns and Jokers
Hot on the heels of New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio blaming the weathermen and refusing to shoulder any responsibility for the city's atrocious management of a relatively pedestrian 6" snow storm last Thursday comes a similar not my fault abdication from New Jersey...
Ambition Over Mission
Yesterday afternoon, a snow storm hit New York City. As NYC storms go, it wasn't extraordinary - maybe half a foot of snow - but it turned out disastrous for millions of New Yorkers. The post-mortem reports blame faulty forecasts (instead of an inch of wintry mix, the...
Taking From Many To Give To A Few
Imagine that you believe society's needs are best funded via the old Marxism "From each according to his ability..." Imagine that doctrine tells you to put the heaviest taxes on the wealthiest, most capable, and most affluent (while taxing everyone else as well, in...
Solidarity Over Sanity
A few recent political and cultural data points support the unfortunate conclusion that our culture continues to fracture, along what may best be called tribal lines. In New Hampshire, state legislator Brandon Phinney, who got elected as a Republican, but switched to...
Glorious Gridlock
This week's mid-term elections offered very little for the liberty-minded voter. On one side, we had Trump's Republican party, which did rather well for us in 2017, but spent this year pursuing an agenda that included closed-border nativism, tariff and trade wars,...
Fentanyl – Policy vs Evolution
The opioid Fentanyl has been increasingly dominating headlines these last few years, as the "opioid epidemic" grew to the point of capturing public attention, and by extension politicians and the press. Unlike heroin, which is made from opium poppies, Fentanyl is...
Vote-Shaming
It happens every election, and it seems shriller every time. I speak of the exhortations we see all over the place to "vote!" I refer to the declarations of "I voted!" I note the highfalutin language about democracy and civic duty, and how if you don't vote, you're...
Who Wants To Work Forever?
If 2017 was the year of Trumponomics (deregulation, tax cuts, and a generally pro-business attitude in the administration), 2018 is turning out to be the Year of the Nationalist. Economically, it's been about trade wars, tariffs, and rewriting agreements. And, while...
Trapped By Impatience
Yesterday, the police arrested a suspect in the letter bomb matter. The alleged bomber, Cesar Sayoc, looks at this juncture to be an anti-left rager/nut, with a troubled history that includes bomb threats going back to the early 2000s, and a number of run-ins with the...
Monopolizing Health Care
There's an old adage that goes "don't steal, the government hates competition." As another old adage advises, "truer words were never spoken," especially the "government hates competition" part, and more expansively true than a mere "don't take taxpayers money,...
About That Caravan…
If anyone predicted that, 15 days before the mid-term election, there'd be a highly visible "caravan" of several thousand Central American migrants working its way northward, with the intent to cross America's southern border by whatever means possible, oddsmakers...
The Eight Percenters
An article in The Atlantic that surveyed attitudes towards political correctness in America, which I previously discussed here, noted that only about 8% of Americans considered themselves "progressive activists," vs 25% for "devoted conservatives," and with the rest...
More Important Than Ever
The Kavanaugh confirmation battle has, as I discussed recently, fed the Orwellian sheep a new mantra. "Democracy!" we hear, over and over again, as a declaration that our nation's system is not-democracy and therefore a Bad Thing. They are right, the nation is not a...
No-Go Zones
The title phrase, drawn from an article on how transgender activists managed to spike some research they didn't like, is a sharp and worrisome reference to certain areas of academic inquiry, where ideologues have succeeded in shutting down any opinion that conflicts...
The Exhausted Majority
A major piece in the Atlantic, and a related article at ABC News, point to an emerging problem for the Left: Their identity politics narrative isn't working out for them. The Atlantic article offers some revealing statistics: 25% of Americans are "devoted...
Totalitarian Rapture
I had an odd little conversation with someone on the Internet a couple days ago, one where my counterpart actively defended socialism and communism as worthy ideals. Normally, such dialogues go a standard "it simply hasn't been done right" path, which is easily...
Forgetting The New Goal
EDITOR'S NOTE: This post is a follow-up to yesterday's Forgetting The Goal Yesterday, I lamented that today's progressives have forgotten the original goal of affirmative action, i.e. assisting individuals who've faced a greater challenge due to systemic injustices,...
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