Hurt Feelings and Hot Stoves
One of the commercials shown during this year's Super Bowl was a "hurt feelings" bit about throwing like a girl. The commercial made the point that, in saying certain things, even without ill intent, can hurt others' feelings. Setting aside the over-sensitivity that...
The Power of Hate
For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. - Captain Ahab An article from last summer, Ten Reasons Why I Am No Longer a Leftist, offers powerful indictment of what the modern Left has devolved into. The points made are strong, with three in particular standing...
Haters Gotta Hate
Yesterday, Apple, Inc. posted record sales and profit numbers, surprising most analysts. Much of the credit for this success is attributed to the new, larger format iPhones. Normally, someone late to a party (Samsung has been making larger screen devices for a while...
Climate Change Aint What It Used To Be
Another year without global warming has gone into the history books. Depending on who you read, the Earth has had no statistically significant warming in 18, 21 or 25 years. As we march along, unwarmed by our emissions, and as we experience the current blasts of cold...
Free Speech, But…
The terrorist attack on the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo has produced an outpouring of support for freedom of the press. A meme of the pen is mightier than the sword has gone viral, both at rallies all over France and in the press. Sadly and...
Wilson and Obama
The great writer Thomas Sowell makes a compelling case that Obama is the second coming of Woodrow Wilson. Meanwhile, the smart folks over at Cato make a compelling case that Wilson's decision to enter the US into World War I was a world-altering mistake, not only...
What’s a RINO?
Spend, as I do, some time reading political boards of a conservative bent and you'll see the term RINO bandied about. RINO, short for "Republican In Name Only," is a common aspersion directed at politicians who belong to the Republican Party but don't espouse true...
Greed: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Greed is a much maligned word. It's one of the seven deadly sins. It's something we are taught not to be from a young age. It's something we reflexively dislike in others. It's a self-contained pejorative i.e. no embellishment is needed when someone is called...
Respect
One of the most basic justifications offered by modern liberals and social justice warriors for their interventionist, redistributionist, social-justice and political-correctness ways is that they are the ones who care about their fellow men, about the poorest,...
Habitually Tardy
A recent New York Post article about how New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had a flight to Puerto Rico that he was booked on delayed by his security team so he wouldn't miss it. The article notes that de Blasio is "habitually tardy," and there have been numerous...
Pro-Liberty is not Anti-Cop
This past weekend, two NY City police officers, one asian and one latino, were murdered in what appears to be a premeditated and unprovoked act of payback for the deaths of two black men in two unrelated incidents in two different cities. The firestorm of tension,...
The Defenestration of Principles
The recent release of a report on the CIA's interrogation of suspected terrorists has brought quite a spectacle to the political blogosphere. The report, its obvious political purpose notwithstanding, has served a useful unintended purpose: it has exposed to the clear...
Choosing Sides
One of my favorite things about the movie Excalibur, an absolutely gorgeous telling of the King Arthur legend by John Boorman, is the utterly unapologetic bombast with which the actors deliver their lines. In an early scene, a young Arthur, squiring for his brother at...
The Next Crusade
Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City and self-appointed nanny of its more irresponsible residents, famously failed to impose a limit on the serving size of sugary beverages that restaurants and convenience stores could offer. He succeeded, however, in...
Poverty and Control
I recently happened across a video clip of Milton Friedman schooling a young and idealistic Stanford University student on the topic of poverty. Although the student's question was posed 35 years ago, if we change the shirt and the hairstyle (and possibly dumb down...
Who is the Safety Net Really for?
Advanced societies, we are told, provide for their weakest members. Liberals proudly espouse this principle via the concept of the "social safety net." The safety net, whose first roots in the USA stretch back to the beginning of the 20th century, really started to...
Carbon and Karma
A recent edition of the NY Post had an opinion piece wherein the author took to task some scolds who had issues with the message of the movie Interstellar. The basic plot of the movie (I haven't seen it) is that the Earth is dying and astronauts are sent out to find a...
Congress Won’t Act
Obama, in his first major action since the 2014 electoral drubbing, went on prime time television to announce that he would order a set of actions to alter the status of several million illegals in the country. Much has been made of this rather broad use of "executive...
The Best and Brightest
By now, most who play in the political sand box have heard of Jonathan Gruber. He is the Obamacare architect and consultant who repeatedly informed the world that, in effect, the public is stupid and therefore needed to be deceived in order to enact legislation that's...
Industrial Schizophrenia
Much is made by many of the decline in American manufacturing, a trend that hit the headlines when China surpassed the USA as the top manufacturing nation in the world a couple years ago. Yet many, including so many of those who lament and decry the decline, are also...
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