Dependence and Submission
One summer, way back when I was in my mid teens, my family went on vacation to Greece, where both my parents were born. One night, on my father's home island, we went to visit one of my father's childhood friends, who now owned and operated one of the island's biggest...
Two Types of
There's an old joke that goes "There are two types of people in the world - those who divide people into two types and those who don't." It mocks the common practice of bifurcating people, things, ideas and the like into binary "either-or" categories, a practice that...
Prognostications v3
Yesterday's Republican primary in Nevada, despite being only the fourth of 50, did a lot to clarify the presidential election picture. Trump won, handily, as the polls predicted, and embracing a "Trump will fade" belief is increasingly falling into the what we want to...
The Statist Siege
Much has been made of the GOP's ineffectiveness at halting or reversing President Obama's agenda, at the party's failure to live up to the expectations that propelled it to the victories in 2010 and 2014 that produced the Congressional majorities in place today....
Poison A or Poison B?
Last weekend, Hillary Clinton won the Nevada Democratic Party caucuses and Donald Trump won the South Carolina Republican Party primary. We now have 3 states' results for each party. On the Republican side, 103 out of 2472 delegates have been awarded, and on the...
Revenge of the Nerds
It's a good time to be a nerd. All across the landscape, nerd culture is paramount. The top-rated comedy on television is The Big Bang Theory, a show about a group of very smart, very nerdy science types who work at CalTech on science stuff. Police procedurals, a...
If Not Originalism?
The recent death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has sent the political world into a frenzy. Amidst the blatant partisanship, accusations of hypocrisy, tributes, denigrations, and conspiracy theories, there exists a serious discussion about the nature and the...
Virtue Signalling
When terrorists struck Paris last November, my Facebook feed filled up with people putting the French flag over their avatars. When gay marriage was declared constitutional by the Supreme Court, my feed was full of rainbows. Every so often, I get a chain letter or see...
Political Correctness – Poison, not Politeness
An old adage warns "Give an inch and they take a mile." This pearl of wisdom, dating back nearly five centuries, warns against making unnecessary concessions. It's a highly validated observation of human nature, and it's the core of today's battle over political...
Socialism’s Mad Men
A mere few years back, the American Left was doing its best to avoid association with the term socialism. Hardcore liberals weren't happy about it, because they liked the principles of socialism, but came to understand that the rest of the nation, and not just those...
Off The Reservation
It's no secret that leftists reserve their greatest scorn, derision and vitriol for people who, by demographic category, are supposed to side with them but choose not to. Pro-life women and black conservatives are two of the more prominent categories subject to this...
Hillary’s Libya Mess
The Economist reports that ISIS has established a strong foothold in the city of Sirte, which is in the middle of Libya's Mediterranean coastline. ISIS reportedly controls about 180 miles of that coastline, centered on Sirte, and has 5000 fighters active there. It's a...
Don’t Piss On My Leg and Tell Me It’s Raining
There's an interesting dynamic on display by the Left regarding Hillary Clinton's email scandal. Among the exculpatory angles being presented are assertions that the classified info was not marked as such, the information was classified after the fact, that she didn't...
Human Trafficking Turned On Its Head
I often find a fair bit of schadenfreude when I witness by-the-book liberals twisting in the winds of dissonance. One of the more satisfying forms of this comes when an organization exalted by the Left says something that the Left cannot abide. Watching the outrage,...
The Regressive Left
The evolutionary biologist and noted atheist Richard Dawkins was caught up in a brouhaha after sharing on his Twitter feed a link to a video that mockingly depicts a commonality between the beliefs of Islamists and feminists. Dawkins' tweet included the comment...
The Burned Hand Teaches Best
The title of this essay is the first half of a quote from J.R.R. Tolkien. I have long believed that in this bit of wisdom lies the only solution to the endlessly creeping statism that's been engulfing the United States the way The Blob did its victims. I've repeatedly...
Blaming The Messenger
ObamaCare is unraveling, faster even than many who expected it to thought it would happen. And, as surely as the sunrise, liberals and statists of many stripes are declaring that its failure is due to corporate greed, the immoral pursuit of private-sector profits, and...
Puritans and Guns
Most gun rights advocates know that it's illegal for civilians to own machine guns. While not entirely true (with a special permit, in certain states, one CAN own a fully automatic rifle manufactured before 1986), it's close enough to true for practical purposes. Very...
When Manners Become Mandates
Not content with the myriad anti-discrimination laws already on the books, and in what I can only surmise to be a hell-bent intent to out-do the other politically-correct, social justice, statist hellhole cities scattered around the country, New York City recently...
Pitfalls of Public Accommodation
I've written here, here, and here, about how the public accommodation principle deprives business owners of economic liberty. Consider, now, an interesting story about efforts to organize a protest at the Mall of America in Minnesota. In brief, Black Lives Matter...
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