Who Wants To Live Forever
Health care and health insurance have been major topics of discussion and divisive issues ever since President Obama decided to make health insurance reform a priority of his first term in office, and were high concept topics for decades before that. One of the most...
The Feminist U-Turn
A recent story in The Guardian illustrated an interesting trend in the feminism/women's rights world. That trend, appearing right in the headline, is a new contextualization of the concept of victimhood. Feminism has traditionally been about empowerment, independence...
Raging At Futility
The recent San Bernadino shootings spawned an interesting twist on the long-running debate about gun ownership and gun violence. It didn't just rekindle the gun debate in the liberal press, it stoked that fire and fanned those flames to unprecedented levels. The New...
Economic Mobility and the Minimum Wage
I was a small business owner, the very sort of person that both the Right and the Left claim is the driver of job growth, and claim to support and believe in. I ran a successful restaurant for two decades, a New York City-style 24 hour diner that my father and his...
The Joy of Censorship
A neighbor of mine, a dyed-in-the-wool, active Democrat, mentioned during a recent discussion that people don't understand that freedom of speech isn't absolute. His is a valid observation on its face, but as always, context and particulars matter. He wasn't referring...
The Modern Male
I was originally going to call this essay "The Modern Man," but I realized that the term "man" has nothing to do with the archetype I'm going to discuss herein. Behold, the model for Axe Dry Spray antiperspirant. Coiffured hair, carefully groomed beard, slight of...
The First Rule of Italian Driving
In the illegal road race classic The Gumball Rally, Franco, the race car driver portrayed by Raul Julia, told his boss and co-driver "And now, my friend, the first rule of Italian driving, (pauses to rip the rear view mirror off the windshield and throw it behind...
Safe Attacks on Dangerous Targets
I noticed something interesting about the press coverage of the San Bernadino shootings. Before any facts came out, before we found out that the shooters were Muslims and ethnically Pakistani and, before the talk of radicalization hit the news, the press was freely...
Doing… Something
The Left wasted absolutely no time pouncing on the most recent mass shooting horror in its zeal to punish the law abiding and undo the Second Amendment. Before we knew anything beyond the fact of a mass shooting situation in progress, Obama declared: there are some...
Euphemizing Mass Shootings
In comments made regarding the recent Planned Parenthood shooting, President Obama stated: I say this every time we have one of these mass shootings. This just doesn't happen in other countries. This statement, being offered in Paris, less than three weeks after the...
Taxpayers and Astronauts
Just under a decade ago, an Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral and sent a thousand pound spacecraft name New Horizons on a very, very, VERY long journey. With a little help from Jupiter's gravity, New Horizons arrived at the distant ex-planet Pluto this...
H8ers Gonna H8
Engaging in political discussion and posting opinion pieces on the Internet, as I have for the past few years, is the proverbial double-edged sword. On the one hand, having people read and appreciate what you write provides validation and satisfaction, for the...
Protectionism for the Mob
Eric Schneiderman, New York State's Attorney General, recently made headlines by announcing that he considered the services provided by fantasy sport sites such as Draft Kings and FanDuel to be games of chance rather than skill and therefore illegal under state law....
Why Does the Left Defend Islam?
Lately, it seems that the contortions exhibited by the Left in defending Islam and marginalizing the atrocities committed in the name of Islam are more incredulous and extreme than the acts of barbarity committed by ISIS. We have been perpetually reminded that Islam...
The Cure, Worse Than The Disease
Bernie Sanders demonstrated a... to call it shocking would imply that we have actual expectations of sense and logic out of him... bit of illogic (not to mention tone-deafness) in last night's Democratic debates when he declared that: climate change is directly...
Prohibition and Morality
The libertarian magazine Reason recently posted a piece that discusses the ethics of prohibiting college students from taking "smart drugs." Certain drugs (Adderall is one that's mentioned) can improve mental acuity and performance, and some scolds, moralists,...
The Impending Collapse of Higher Education
This morning's headlines are blaring the resignation of the president and chancellor of the University of Missouri after weeks of student protests regarding the handling of purported racism on the campus. Concurrently, a female student at Yale has gained some...
Ms. Potatohead
Hillary Clinton recently chimed in on the issue of marijuana legalization, likely in response to Bernie Sanders' stated position that he'd remove marijuana entirely from the federal government's list of banned drugs. Hillary indicated that she'd favor reclassifying...
Mid-November Prognostications
Two months ago, I offered up some predictions, specifically, that Biden would throw his hat in the ring and that Bush would accumulate the support of those who were backing the also-rans in the GOP primary. Wrong on both counts. The former surprised me, and I suspect...
History? What History?
Later this month, leaders and solons from all over the world will converge in Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, dubbed COP21. Their objective will be to achieve a new global agreement on "climate," which really means an agreement to reduce...
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