Gun Rights Lesson #668 – Suicide
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. "Guns make suicide easier and more common!" This argument in favor of gun control is a tragic one. It's also a textbook assemblage of logical fallacies and sloppy...
The Jerusalem Conniption
Donald Trump, yesterday, fulfilled a campaign promise by formally recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital and announcing the beginning of the process to move America's embassy there. The hysterics began when it was first rumored he would do so, and reached a rapid...
Oh Catalonia!! Part II – What Is A State For?
EDITOR'S NOTE: This essay is a follow-up to October's Oh, Catalonia! Let's look at questions of state legitimacy as a series of Matryoshka dolls, working down to the level of Catalan desires for independence. The outside doll: the function of the state is to protect...
“A Flirty Business”
Thus tweeted Geraldo Rivera in defense of Matt Lauer, after Lauer's firing but apparently before the disclosure of the extent of his transgressions. In doing so, Rivera joined a few other public figures in trying to downplay or otherwise explain away the deluge of...
Half-Hearted Hawks
Last night, in the wee hours, the Senate finally passed its version of the tax reform bill. While the final version will depend on the conference between the House and the Senate, it's safe to say that the bill is a mixed bag. Some will get what they want, some won't,...
One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State
Nineteen years ago, a Russian professor named Igor Panarin predicted the disintegrtion of the United States "within a few years," perhaps by 2010. He expected the nation to fracture into six parts. Obviously, his prediction didn't come true, but the idea does not,...
Gun Rights Lesson #198 – No One Wants To Take Your Guns
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. "Oh, please! No one wants to take your guns away!" When gun rights defenders resist calls for more "sensible" gun regulation, it's inevitable that someone will...
Smaller Government? How Quaint!
As the Senate struggles to assemble a tax reform bill good enough to garner 50 votes, one palliative (or buy-off) that speaks volumes is a reported provision that will work as a tax increase "trigger" should future revenues fall short. This sop stinks for reasons...
The Morality of Designer Babies
Editor's Note: This article was originally published on 24 March 2017 Unbeknownst to many (but not all) of us, gene-editing technology is growing by leaps and bounds, and becoming cheaper and more accessible with every passing year, in particular thanks to the...
The Climate Action Farce
With much fanfare, Syria, a nation torn asunder in a civil/proxy war, joined the Paris Climate Accords, leaving America as the final holdout. Whoop-de-lah-di-dah-doo. Does anyone in his right mind think that Syria is going to engage in "climate action," which is...
Gun Rights Lesson #999 – Trusting The Government
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. "Thinking that you need guns to protect you from the government is stupid. America will never become Nazi Germany!" The history and origin of the Second Amendment...
Social Justice For Dummies
Many who champion government involvement in people's lives and decisions purport to do so to protect the weak, the disadvantaged, the oppressed, the less "privileged," and the more vulnerable members of society. That last category was illuminated by a couple social...
Gun Rights Lesson #355 – Machine Guns
Pick a shoot-em-up movie, any shoot-em-up movie. Odds are that somebody's going to have a gun that "sprays" bullets all over the place. Whether it be the Terminator, Robocop, John McLane, Hannibal Smith, Jack Bauer, or Marta from Scarface, machine guns/pistols,...
Cabaret, Oh Cabaret!
New York City has finally repealed its 91 year old, Jazz Age Cabaret law. The fight over the 23 skidoo goes on, vodeodo‘s specter infiltrates unchecked across the "isle of Manhatto" in its subtle wiles, but the Charleston is now free to come up from Charleston. The...
Gun Rights Lesson #619 – Bring Back the Assault Weapons Ban
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. "Assault weapons used to be banned! They should be banned again!" In light of Senator Dianne Feinstein's new bill to ban assault weapons, it is worth visiting...
Gun Rights Lesson #202 – Too Easy To Buy
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. "It's too easy to buy an assault weapon!" Consider how you would feel if someone complained "It's too easy to buy a newspaper!" After all, freedom of the press...
Gun Rights Lesson #461 – The Mentally Ill
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. "We should toughen our laws to keep the mentally ill from buying guns!" As certain as the tide, a high-publicity shooting incident elicits demands for more gun...
DeBlasio The Destroyer
In the wake of Bill DeBlasio's wholly predictable re-election as the mayor of New York City (wholly predictable despite exploding ethics scandals, atrocious performance, and a "I don't give a shit about NY City other than as a stepping stone for my national liberal...
The Static Trap
Everything old is new again, and old tropes, sound-bites, metaphors, and talking points never quite seem to fade away into oblivion, even when they truly deserve to do so. Their re-emergence is predictable to the point of boredom, as is evinced by the Left's response...
Terror and Terrorism
It is a difficult reality of modern political discourse that some seek to leverage high-visibility events to fit their on-going agendas. One particularly galling example of this is the effort to tu quoque those who condemn radical Islam by casting the Las Vegas...
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