That Which Was Named
A tip of my hat to Donald Trump. He dared name that which must not be named. He dared to point out the obvious: that Radical Islam is antithetical to women, gays, Jews and Christians. He dared tread where the Left has refused. He ranked women, gays, and non-Muslim...
Cheerleading Clinton
Consider the First Amendment of the Constitution. It includes protections for Religion, Speech, The Press, Public Assembly, and Petitioning the Government. The fact The Press gets specific protection despite Speech also being protected (after all, The Press can...
Laws and Execution
One of my oldest and closest friends is a list maker. He keeps track of various things in his life (e.g. collections, states he's visited, concerts he's seen) by writing and maintaining various lists. I have a bit of that bug myself, and it's been greatly facilitated...
Snapshot Geography and Social Justice
The civil war in Syria and the constant flux in the territory across Syria, Iraq and Turkey that is controlled by ISIS have gone on long enough to suggest that the "known" borders of those nations are destined for the dustbin of history. This new reality raises the...
Franchise Fascism
Thump, thump, thump. That's the sound of yet another nail being driven into the coffin of economic liberty in America. It joins countless others, further entombing a liberty that, once gone entirely, will turn our other rights into relics. This particular nail is...
Narcan and Its Discontents
Governor Cuomo has signed a bill into law allowing the drug Narcan to be available over the counter at participating drugstores. Narcan blocks opium, morphine and its derivatives at the cellular level. This law is certainly better than nothing, and no doubt it will...
Excusing the Indefensible
What the hell is going on in the political world nowadays? It's not enough that we have a liar continuing to lie about the lies she was called out on, and an orange-and-blond id spouting off in ways that make us question his mental state, competing for the Presidency....
What is Legal vs What is Right
Way, way back, when I was a young lad still finding my political eyes, I took a political quiz that asked me to rate the degree with which I agreed with certain statements. One of them was, in essence "The law is the law." I recall finding the statement a bit jarring,...
A Tale of Two Americas
The first feel-good story to come out of this year's Olympics is that of 19 year old Ginny Thrasher, who won the first gold medal of the games. Thrasher, you see, won her medal in a very un-PC sport: shooting. Specifically, she won in 10 meter air rifle, which uses...
Mother Nature Wants To Kill You
The Zika virus outbreak, coinciding with the start of the Olympics in Brazil, reminded me of a simple fact that humanity has known for thousands of years. It's best summarized as: Mother Nature Wants To Kill You The history of human civilization has been one of...
Pissing on My Leg… Again
So, America sent several pallets loaded with $400 million in various currencies over to Iran. Iran, the same day, released four American citizens. The money, we are told, is a settlement of a decades-old debt dispute between America and Iran, and that another $1.3...
Petulant Prohibitionists
Here's a little tidbit you may not know: In some jurisdictions, stun guns and tasers are more restricted than handguns. This bit of oddness (guns are clearly more lethal than tasers) is being challenged on Second Amendment grounds by people involved with the landmark...
The House Gets Its Vig
This morning's news includes a report that fantasy sports gambling is now legal in the state. This brings the number of states where one can play on-line fantasy sports, which for football alone is a market estimated at $70 billion, to forty. Fans of fantasy sports...
Democrats and the Constitution
There is a delicious irony in the kerfuffle over Donald Trump's attacks on Khizr Khan, the father of a US soldier who died in Iraq, after Khan's speech at the Democratic National Convention last week. Khan challenged Trump's stance on Muslims and other minorities, and...
President Id
Not content to accept that he overdid it in his response to Khizr Khan, the father of a US soldier who died in Iraq who spoke at the DNC last week, Donald Trump continued to bark instead of dialing things back. The liberal press is making hay of this latest unforced...
Wait Until It’s Free
Political satirist P. J. O'Rourke famously quipped: If you think health care is expensive now, wait until ... it’s free. He first offered this observation way back in May, 1993, when then-First Lady Hillary Clinton was leading an effort to overhaul health insurance in...
Scare Crows, Straw Men, and Popcorn
Today's New York Post features an opinion column by law professor F. H. Buckley, wherein he notes his amusement with: NeverTrump conservatives who’ll support Hillary, or at least do what they can to ensure her election, because they say Trump isn’t a real...
Papers, Please…
The Cold War thriller The Hunt For Red October included a gracious exchange between the Soviet submarine captain (Marko Ramius, played by Sean Connery) and one of his officers (Vasili Borodin, played by Sam Neill). In it, Borodin mused on what he would do after they...
3D Follies
While the majority of the country has moved in a pro-gun-rights direction (41 states have Right-to-Carry/Shall-Issue laws or better, 11 of those have Constitutional Carry laws of some form), a handful of states have chosen to buck the tide and enact more restrictive...
Global Warming and Original Sin
An Internet friend recently shared his take on a new climate study that is headlined Historical records miss a fifth of global warming. His interpretation, with which I concur, is: The basic premise is "our climate models are right - it's the data that's wrong." It's...
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