Political Correctness and the Left
Today I would like to explore the modern Left and its relationship with so-called "political correctness". This topic is by no means unexplored; whole books have been written about it, and there are even hypotheses at loose in the wild that claim that Donald Trump won...
Gun Rights Lesson #551 – Sensible Gun Regulation
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. "If not for the NRA, we'd have sensible gun regulation!" Some anti-gun arguments are just empty platitudes, ignorant of law and history and bereft of specificity....
The End of Rationality
Enlightened rationality has had a good run -- some three hundred and fifty years, by my count. But all good things must come to an end, apparently. Let's all lift a glass to the end of Reason. Perhaps you believe I'm premature in heralding rationality's demise. I can,...
Bawling Over Boo Boos
President Trump recently proposed substantial cuts to the EPA's budget of $2 billion, or about 24% of its operating budget. This would reduce its workforce from 15,000 to 12,000 and, obviously, mean that a number of programs and initiatives will end. Cue the...
Be Careful What You Wish For
A common trope in literature and pop culture informs us that nothing good comes without a price or consequences. Most of us know that you cannot make a wish with a genie or a deal with the Devil that isn't inevitably going to work against you. Movies and television,...
Review: Friday Night Lights, The Series
One of the countless bounties of the digital age is the emergence of serialized television as an art form that routinely exceeds movies in its ability to present meaningful, in-depth character studies. Cable television, with early masterpieces such as The Sopranos and...
Trump’s “Speech of a Lifetime”
Maintaining my not-so-grand tradition of reading instead of listening, I chose not to watch Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress last night. Instead, I read the transcript, so that I could process the content without the distractions of rhetorical flourish,...
Global Warming and The Sun
If you have ever been in a debate between a global warming skeptic and a global warming catastrophist, you know that sooner or later the issue of the Sun will arise. Skeptics view solar input as likely being the most significant contributor to any climate change that...
Functionality And Gun Rights
Neglected in the gun rights debate is the idea that the defense needs of people who live in functional states might differ with those of the people who live in dysfunctional ones. This contrast can exist within a nation, like the difference in the law enforcement...
Spending Better, Not More
Every so often, we are treated to a news story about horrific inefficiency, waste and fraud in government spending. While jokes about $400 hammers and $600 toilet seats have been around so long that we write them off as trivialities, the aggregate numbers are so...
Proof Before Harm
"Primum nil nocere." This is the cardinal rule of medicine, and part of the Hippocratic oath sworn to by clinicians since before the time of Christ: "First do no harm." Carl Sagan had a great corollary: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof." Both are...
Gun Rights Lesson #790 – Weapons of War
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. "Civilians Should Not Possess Weapons of War!" This assertion, recently and embarrassingly put forth by the Court Of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, is a classic...
The War on Responsibility
Sound the alarms! In just a couple decades, life expectancy in America will be no better than in that third-world, brown-person hellhole, Mexico!! That last bit is sarcasm, of course. Mexico has been doing very well for herself and her people, and could do even better...
Is the Earth’s Climate in Trouble?
A great deal of ink and angst has been spent by climate warriors and skeptics over the question of whether global warming is real, how big it is, and what to do about it. Maybe, however, these are not the right questions to be asking. I happened recently to come...
The Imminent Commuting Revolution
How long is your commute? If you're an average American, it's about 26 minutes. While a few work from home, and our increasingly technological society suggests that number could grow and thus shrink the average, the overall trend has been moving in the other direction...
When Hyperbole Backfires
The vast majority of political argument is casual, and as such is often loaded with tricks, logical fallacies, emotional ploys, and gamesmanship. Such don't serve to prove one's argument so much as to get the other side to yield, withdraw or go silent. Books could be...
Gun Rights Lesson #633 – Revolution Delusion
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. "If you think that your guns can protect you from the government, you're deluded or crazy!" The premise that private ownership of firearms is, ultimately, about...
Conventional Warfare and Collateral Damage
The war that is being waged between Donald Trump on one side and the unholy union of the Left and the Press on the other side escalated to another level this past week. The Left claimed a couple scalps, in the resignation of Michael Flynn and the withdrawal of Andrew...
Perfect Intent Or Imperfect Results?
A couple months back, actor/producer Mark Ruffalo, a champion of liberal and social justice politics, caught a mountain of grief for a social justice "transgression." His crime? Casting a cisgender actor as a transgender character. One might understand if the social...
YOU Didn’t Work For My Money, Either
The election of Donald Trump will, among other things, stave off, for now, the relentless and insatiable hunger that progressives have for dead people's money. Hillary Clinton had, as part of her campaign platform, put forth a plan to both increase and modify the...
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