Trump Scandals – The Squid Do Battle. Part I: The Democrats
A year since the election of the Trump administration, amid florid allegations, we get a few morsels of grounded accusations from courts of law, with all appropriate evidence. Mostly: Paul Manafort, the once-head of the Trump Presidential campaign, failed to pay...
Petulance Is No Basis For A System Of Government
A somewhat ambling text chat with a political friend yesterday coalesced around Trump, upcoming elections, and the Left's goals and strategy - as in "What are they?" It's easy to figure out what they're against (anything Trump), and it's easy to figure out what they...
They’re Our Geese!
Proving that there's no more dangerous place on earth than the space between a liberal politician and other people's money, the governors of California and New York have been seething over the part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that limits the deductibility of state...
Performance Plus
History is replete with broad ripples caused by a single act by a single person. Gavrilo Princip, Lee Harvey Oswald, Rosa Parks, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, an unknown man in Tiananmen Square, Thich Quang Duc, John Wilkes Booth, and countless others changed world...
Leave No Trace
Thus goes a motto for responsible camping, hiking, and other outdoor activities. It is a motto I learned on my first Outward Bound course, mountaineering in the Four Corners region of southwestern Colorado. It's a mantra that was repeated on the three subsequent...
What We Take For Granted
A recent announcement in the UK, that all non-essential surgery scheduled in January is to be cancelled in order to free up hospital space in expectation of a heavy flu season, raises a reality that advocates for socialized medicine in America routinely overlook or...
Science Fiction’s False Promise
I recently had the chance to watch Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 science fiction masterpiece Blade Runner, which in turn was based on a short story by science fiction writer Phillip K. Dick. I'm a fan of the original movie, and I number myself...
Nobody Gives A [Bleep] About Spending
If I were to tell you that the loudest deficit hawks of today are Democrats, you'd probably snort your coffee. Yet that's the bizarro-world reversal of talking points that has ensued from the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Yes, it remains that a number of...
Meme-Fail
Ah, the art of the meme! How to present an idea or talking point in a visual form appealing enough to cause viral propagation. Memes are visual, and thus engage our brains differently than phrases, sentences, or paragraphs do. They follow the old adage that a picture...
The PC Virus
The latest entry in the Star Wars franchise has closed out its second week of release, and some media outlets are engaging in gleeful schadenfreude over the precipitous drop in box office receipts from Week 1 to Week 2. Two weeks in, the overall numbers are strong,...
State Pension Funds and Tax Reform
Much fuss has been made over the amount of cash and assets some of America's biggest companies have stashed away off-shore, estimated by some at more a trillion dollars. Under current tax law, the government considers all that taxable at the 35% corporate rate, and...
Communists and the Flag
Comedian Janeane Garofalo, who has firmly established herself as a full-blown Progressive in both her act and her public political statements, exemplifies the shocking lack of self-awareness of people who deride America's history for its failings. Consider the...
SALT Hysteria
As the GOP/Trump tax reform plan approaches the finish line, the hyperventilation regarding one of its major provisions is cresting. Yes, this is about the much maligned (by Democrats, at least) limit on deductibility of state and local taxes (SALT). Under current tax...
A Fairer Way To Tax
"Taxation is Theft" So goes one of many libertarian mantras, and it embodies a core principle of liberty. Taxless libertarian nirvana is not, however, lurking around the corner, or on the next block, or even in the same hemisphere, so it's a philosophical position...
Blood In The Water
Today's pleasant surprise, i.e. the awful Roy Moore losing his bid for Alabama's open Senate seat, will provide a mountain of grist for political commentators, high, and low, big and small. As well, it will be read with the practiced care, both real and feigned, of...
The Joy Behar Rule
As the special Senate election in Alabama comes down to the wire, the battle for the veneer of moral superiority in the era of Weinstein is reaching an apex. On the GOP side, we have the execrable Judge Roy Moore, whom you should loathe even if you are skeptical about...
Bake That Cake!
If you're reading this blog, odds are quite good that you're aware of the "gay wedding cake" case currently before the Supreme Court. But, just for completeness, here's the gist: A gay couple sought to purchase a custom-decorated wedding cake from a bakery in...
Gun Rights Lessons – A Series
The debate over gun rights and gun control stretches back decades, to at least the early part of the 20th century. It should, then, come as no surprise that there are quite a few recurring and oft-argued themes and positions in this long-running debate. Seasoned...
Gun Rights Lesson #522 – Technology
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. "We need smart guns! Technology will prevent misuse!" Yes, lets talk about technology and firearms, and not just "smart guns." What is a "smart gun," by the way?...
Whence Inequality?
A recent Washington Post headline blared "The richest 1 percent now owns more of the country’s wealth than at any time in the past 50 years." We are, I presume, supposed to assume this is a problem. Mention anything relating to the wealthy to the denizens of many...
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