The Berned Hand Teaches… What?
Bernie Sanders, socialist champion of many of today's liberal youth and perpetual denouncer of Wall Street and cronyism, recently endorsed Hillary Clinton, his rival for the Democratic nomination after reneging on his promise to fight all the way to the Democratic...
Liberty and Public Health Crises
I'm a bit of a jack-of-all-trades, and I've accumulated skills and experience in carpentry, plumbing, electrical work, masonry, cooking and similar manual arts over the span of my life. I'm also a bit of a tool nut, and have accrued a fairly extensive set of...
26 Years Old
Albert Einstein wrote his revolutionary paper on special relativity at age 26. Henry David Thoreau delivered a Harvard Commencement address at age 19. Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice at age 20. Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computer at age 21. Orson Welles...
That Which Must Not Be Named
Another day, another terrorist attack. Nice, France. A man reportedly shouting "Allahu Akbar" drove a truck through a crowd gathered to watch a Bastille Day fireworks show. Current news reports number the dead at 84, and over a hundred more injured. The driver has...
Cheerleading an Epic Wipeout
Elections inspire polls, lots and lots of polls. A recent one suggested that Trump was edging ahead of Clinton in some battleground states. The reactions I've seen in response are rather interesting. Trump's supporters are feeling good, Trump's liberal detractors are...
Blurred Lines
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently brewed up a tempest with comments disparaging Donald Trump and his bid for the Presidency. Her criticisms, denounced by people Left and Right as violations of long-standing custom for Supreme Court justices, also...
Sanders, Sellouts and Statism
Yesterday, Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton as the Democratic candidate for the presidency. In doing so, he disappointed many followers and surprised some who might have believed his five week old vow to fight until the convention. We shouldn't' be surprised,...
Flipping the Scales of Justice
Way, way back in 2012, a gay couple walked into a Colorado bakery to order a cake to celebrate their wedding. The bakery's owners, citing their religious beliefs that gay marriage was wrong, declined. The gay couple took the bakers to court, where they argued that the...
Why We Have Safe Spaces
Social media make it incredibly quick and easy for any of us to post our thoughts and opinions on, well, anything. Easy often translates to lazy or without much thought, as the seemingly endless parade of celebrities who have their ill-conceived or foot-in-mouth...
Poachers, Markets, and Endangered Species
It is a common knock against unfettered free markets that there are matters they don't sufficiently address. Sometimes expressed as the problem of externalities, it's considered by some as a fatal flaw in the free market principle. Market-based solutions to problems...
Lets Really Fix Police Relations
The murder of five police officers in Dallas, an atrocity rooted in the boiled-over tension between urban blacks and the police officers that watch over them, has created various firestorms of protest, counter-protest, and Internet virtue signaling (the last being the...
Tribalistic Decay
It has been a terrible week. In Louisiana, a black man selling CDs was killed by two white police officers as they sought to arrest him. In Minnesota, a black man pulled over for a traffic stop was killed by a police officer after the man informed the officer that he...
Intellectual Honesty and Clinton’s Emails
In case you missed it, Reason juxtaposed the James Comey statement with Hillary Clinton's prior statements regarding the email scandal. Under 2 minutes. Watch it. If you don't care that she's a liar, at least have the intellectual honesty to admit it. Then, ask...
Crusaders and Critics
Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger recently called political correctness moral condescension, a description that is as apt and appropriate as any I've ever heard. It even rivals George Will's phrase synthetic outrage in pithiness and brevity. Moral...
Clinton, Trump and Lemonade
A neighbor of mine, a Trump supporter who tends to be quieter than the blustery liberals I also call neighbors, has long been hoping that Clinton would not be indicted. His reasoning, which I have now seen echoed all over the news and blogosphere, was that Clinton is...
Clinton The Bulletproof
By now, the news that Hillary Clinton got a pass on her email server wrongdoings has filtered into the forebrain of everyone who pays any attention to the news. The reaction from the Right has been predictable and generally justified, with a widespread lament that FBI...
And She Walks
This morning, FBI Director James Comey made a brief statement regarding the investigation into the Clinton email matter. The short version: no charges. The slightly longer version: Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the...
Falsely Shouting Fire
Most of us understand that there are limits on the protection offered by the Constitution for speech, and most of us have heard of the shouting Fire! in a crowded theater exception. We rarely specify, but generally understand, that it is only when the announcement is...
Drowning In A Sea Of Certainty
A recent study reported on an interesting and "intuitively compelling" theory for the Earth's history of ice ages and interglacial warm periods. The particulars of the study, which connect low CO2 levels to plant die-off that leads to increased atmospheric dust and a...
Smokin’ That Crime
I am a paramedic with over two decades working all over New York City. I worked in Harlem during the crack epidemic and have seen heroin trends come and go. Of all the public health officials who deal with drug abuse, we are the only ones who actually contact the...
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