Lies and Misdirection
Politicians lie. We all know it, we all expect it. We've all heard the jokes. "How can you tell Politician X is lying? His lips are moving." They also make promises they never intend to keep, they do everything they can not to answer questions that paint them into...
Clinton the Grave Robber
There's an old joke, about a man who propositions a woman. He asks, "Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?" She says "Sure." He replies, "OK, how about for twenty bucks?" Outraged, she responds "How dare you! What kind of woman do you think I am!?" He notes...
A Fear-Mongering Warmonger
Hillary Clinton recently claimed, in rather incendiary language, that ISIS would rather have Trump elected President than her. Her suggested reason is that Trump will be a "a recruiting sergeant for the terrorists." This is both too clever by half and grossly...
Wasted Vote Bullies
As sure as water is wet, a presidential election trots out the "wasted vote" bullies. Any time someone declares intent to vote for a minor party candidate, a demonic chorus of dyspeptic partisans chants a hymnal full of of hackneyed hosannas in response. Being...
Begging Against Momentum
Fans of professional sports understand momentum, the unquantifiable sense that a team has taken charge of a game. There are times when we can feel the beginning of a comeback or a sense of inevitability that's not yet reflected on a scoreboard. The other team often...
Poisoning the Melting Pot
This past weekend brought us yet more reminders of the stark realities of radical Islam. In St. Cloud, Minnesota, eight people were stabbed by a Somali man who made references to Allah. In New York, a bomb exploded in a dumpster in Chelsea, injuring 29 people. Another...
Ignoring The Inconvenient
An American woman set a record at this year's Olympic games. She became the first woman and the first summer Olympian to medal in six consecutive Olympics. Only one other athlete in the entire history of the Games has matched this feat (an Italian man who competes in...
Sins of Omission
Is the New York Times biased? Is Fox News biased? If your answer is not "Obviously!" on both accounts, odds are pretty good you're biased. Then again, who isn't? Show me someone without bias, and I'll show you someone who is utterly apathetic. Only when something...
Emptying The Government’s Toolbox
Conventional wisdom has, for decades, informed us that foods high in cholesterol increase our blood cholesterol levels. As it turned out, conventional wisdom is wrong. Not for the first time, and not for the last. We shouldn't be distressed by this. It is the natural...
We Condemn Bigotry, Except When We Celebrate It
In reading a defense of Hillary Clinton's "deplorables" statement, I came across an interesting argument. The author, Jonathan Chait (who self-identifies as a "liberal hawk"), noted that: A plurality of Republicans supported Trump’s claim that a Mexican-American judge...
One Queen To Rule Them All
This election is the gift that just keeps on giving. Just as the endless drip-drip-drip of the Hillary Clinton email scandal has finally saturated us, as we finally been shown enough to recognize that she and hers lied, repeatedly, and deliberately worked to hide that...
You’ll Never Be “Just” Enough
I added a new word to my social justice lexicon today: "woke." It joins countless other words and acronyms, but it is not merely an addition. It is the epitome, it is the acme, it is Buddhism's Arhat. It is (for now), the pinnacle of achievement and enlightenment in...
A Libertarian “Bah,” Part II
The Government Hand That Feeds It is well enough known that the Nazis innovated the modern Olympic iconography: the torch ceremony, the photogenic mass fandom in the monumental stadiums braying for reflected national glory. If they discovered what looks good to the...
Liberals That Hate Liberty
Stories about people's Trump signs and placards being stolen have become so common that only the ones with "bonus" features are bothering to register in the zeitgeist nowadays. One man electrified his signs after seven were stolen and after video records proved...
Hating Others’ Success
News that the Obama Administration was implementing some rule changes in order to increase revenue from estate taxes reminded me of an old quote: "The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the...
Subsidizing The Planet
The attached graphic crossed my browser screen today. As you can see, it's an OMG BIG PHARMA IS EVIL graphic from the Bernie Sanders camp. It asserts that a particular drug is four times more expensive in America than it is in three nations that have socialized...
Narcissistic Opinions
I am a libertarian, which means I'm used to being a political minority and drawing puzzlement from others. I am also a fan of heavy metal music, which means I'm used to being a musical minority and drawing puzzlement from others. The latter is often in the form "how...
Pushing a String
A wonderful quote appeared in my newsfeed the other morning: Progress cannot be plotted and blueprinted in advance; that is why it is progress. It reminded me of an anecdote from my engineering days. In an all-hands meeting regarding the technology project I was...
Social Justice and Original Sin
The internet has gone all atwitter over a recording of a woman berating a Lyft driver for having a Hawaiian hula doll on his dashboard. The short video is well worth a watch, if only to demonstrate that social justice warriors (SJWs) do exist in real life and do fit...
All Hail The Queen
Our minds are extremely malleable. We constantly adjust our thoughts and ideas as we gather new information and are exposed to new viewpoints. When we find ideas that "fit," that make sense to us, and that align with our values, we tend to seek them out and hang on to...
This Week's Poll
Loading ...Most Liked Posts
Most Liked Comments
on We Condemn Bigotry, Except When We Celebrate It 9+
on Trump’s Bullies 7+
on Gun Rights Lesson #551 – Sensible Gun Regulation 6+
on Let The Squirming Begin 5+on Clinton The Bulletproof 5+
on Fact-Checking Trump 5+on Is the Earth’s Climate in Trouble? 4+
on Congratulations, Democrats! 4+
on Whence Morality? 4+- on Bernie-Bros, Meet William Hauser 4+
Active Comment Threads
Most Commented Posts
Universal Background Checks – A Back Door to Universal Registration
COVID Mask Follies
When Everything Is Illegal…
An Anti-Vax Inflection Point?
“Not In My Name”
The Great Social Media Crackup
War Comes Through The Overton Window
The First Rule of Italian Driving
Most Active Commenters