There’s No Heat in “Fire!”
Of all the freedom writers, it so happens that your author is probably the only one with two actual experiences of fires in movie theaters. The first was at Star Wars episode One. About halfway in, I went to the lobby, and found the popcorn machine's butter reservoir...
A Libertarian’s Appeal To Distraught Democrats
I feel your pain. You came to this with what you thought were the best intentions, but you didn’t get what you wanted (I never get what I want). Now, you’re talking about moving to Canada or Spain, or seceding from the Union to live in the world’s sixth largest...
Electoral College Insanity
Hillary Clinton became the fourth presidential candidate in US history to win the popular vote but lose the electoral college tally. She is preceded in this by Samuel J. Tilden in 1876, Grover Cleveland in 1888, and Al Gore in 2000. The shock of her loss to the...
Paranoid and Impotent
The late, great Robin Williams joked a fair bit about alcohol and drugs in his career, and given that he came up in comedy during the 1980s, cocaine got its share of attention. One of his better lines: We were talking briefly about cocaine...yeah. Anything that makes...
Label Maniacs
Today, I learned a new Social Justice term: "GSM people." As in "Gender and Sexual Minorities." Apparently, LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transsexual) is no longer adequate, nor is LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual and Queer). GSM is, apparently, better...
The Candidate and The President
Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens summed up my current attitude towards President-Elect Trump: "It should be a rule in democracies that candidates for high office should be judged guilty till proven innocent, while the winners deserve to be held innocent...
Weaponizing Religion
Consider the opening clause from a comment I recently found while perambulating around the Internet. It's all fun and games until the religious zealot removes your freedoms Taken cold, it could be seen as having been written by a liberal bemoaning the evangelical...
Gun Rights Lesson #704 – Saving One Child
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. "Children die from guns in households! If we can save one child's life by banning guns, we should do it!" I find the "one child" gambit to be one of the most...
Safety Pins and Sociopaths
Safety pins? Seriously? Has the Left collectively turned its brain off? In case some of you aren't paying attention to the social justice scene, I'm referring to the latest bit of virtue signaling embraced by liberals i.e the wearing of safety pins, as Buzzfeed's...
American Exceptionalism, the American Way
Political campaigns, like advertising campaigns, can live and die with slogans, sound bites and catch-phrases. They also, increasingly, engage in battles over the meanings of particular words and phrases. Consider the argument over what Bernie Sanders' "democratic...
The Hopes and Fears for The Next Four Years
Like Opening Day of the baseball season, like the first weekend of the NFL season, the transition period between presidents is where we can embrace our highest hopes. Unlike sports, however, where acknowledgment that our team just doesn't have the chops to win is...
From Messiah to Footnote
The historic milestone election of Barack Obama eight years ago was not just about breaking the ultimate color barrier in America. It was the elevation of an almost messianic figure in the eyes of many. It was about starry-eyed "Hope and Change," it was about a grand...
Lessons Unlearned
That Donald Trump's surprise victory on Election day elicited shock, disbelief, anger, tearful sadness and hyperbolic proclamations of the demise of the republic is no surprise. That the follow-up to these initial reactions is saturated with rage and equally...
Congratulations, Democrats!
You did it! You lost the sure-thing. You handed victory to a candidate who couldn't possibly win the Presidency of the United States. And you have no one but yourselves to blame for it. You had the perfect foil to run against, you had the press abandoning their last...
Gary Johnson Is The Best Option
The endorsement is easy: Gary Johnson for President. It's the second choice and swing state possibilities that draw all the "ink" in this piece. Hilary Clinton is a High Dean of the interventionist school of thought on foreign affairs that's been (for everyone...
No, You’re NOT Wasting Your Vote
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an abridged and updated version of Wasted Vote Bullies Election Day is looming over us, and the possibly most discordant Presidential election in the memory of anyone alive today will finally come to a close. The rhetoric from both sides is...
Corruption Fatigue
A long-time friend and former co-worker, back in my aerospace days, once lamented the reality of office and career politics, that he simply wanted to come to work and do his job without having to worry about all that stuff. The apt response is encapsulated by Yakov...
Gun Rights Lesson #513 – Only Police Should Have Guns
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. "There's no reason for anyone but police and the army to have guns!" It must be nice to live in a world where only the Good Guys have guns, and only the...
Dissent as Mental Illness
Consider a society that celebrates demographic diversity in ever-increasing granularity but decries intellectual diversity in an ever-more-restrictive manner. Even as gender, now deemed a construct rather than a biological characteristic, has been diversified from two...
Rewarding Lies and Corruption
By now, anyone with one eye half-open knows the Clinton campaign and Hillary Clinton herself are awash in lies, half-truths, opacity, misdirection, quid-pro-quo favoritism, pay-to-play pandering, influence peddling, tinkering and rigging of the electoral process (yes,...
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