Innocence, Guilt, and Trust
"Tough on Wall Street" is a career tag line, something used for self-aggrandizement and as a stepping stone to higher positions and more power. In a world where making money is a Bad Thing, being in the finance and securities game attaches a presumption of guilt to...
Do the Political Beliefs of Your Favorite Musicians Matter?
I'm a regular listener to and a big fan of the radio personality and former standup comic Ron Bennington, currently heard on satellite radio. Some time back, before the 2012 elections, he discussed Paul Ryan's mention that he was a big fan of Rage Against The Machine,...
Without A Net
Talk to a statist about his beliefs, and you will often hear the words "safety net" mentioned. Well, not so much mentioned as boldly, even aggressively declared, stated as a challenge, as an affirmation and declaration that theirs is the side of right, goodness and...
Utility Does Not Justify Violation of Our Rights
One of the arguments being put forth by people from all over the left-right spectrum regarding the NSA's broad collection of telephone data and "metadata" is that it's essential to the War on Terror and to the security of the American people. We are told that these...
Liberals Can’t Count To 10
- or: Why Has Progressivism Been Taken Over By Busybodies? The 10th Commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy...
The Ten Commandments in the Public Square
It's not uncommon nowadays to pop onto one of the news sites and find a story about disputes regarding displays of a religious nature on public property. It's more common around Christmas time, when many cases of people either setting up nativity scenes or protesting...
Redefining Capitalism
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' I've long criticized President Obama, his spokespeople and his supporters for playing fast and loose with the definition of and the...
Give a Man a Fish
Pope Francis set the political blogosphere afire with words that apparently condemn capitalism and free markets in a recently released manifesto. Much has been written by many about this, so much so that I felt uneasy pulling quotes of the manifesto from the press or...
Corporate Speech, Disclosure, and the First Amendment
A landmark First Amendment case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, was decided in 2010 by the Supreme Court. The particulars of the case can be found all over the internet, but the gist of the case is that a political lobbying group made a film about...
Your Laziness Does Not Trump My Liberty
The abdication of personal responsibility has reached such epidemic levels that people simply cannot imagine a situation where some government agency isn't keeping an eye on everything they are exposed to or interact with on any given day. Just contemplate. You wake...
Melting Pot vs Zoo
Somehow, somewhen, without consulting the rest of us (hat tip to George Carlin), the intelligentsia decided that the nation would no longer be a "melting pot," where people who wanted to come here would be expected to embrace American culture while mixing theirs in....
Three “F” Words
Consider three "F" words in common vernacular. One, four letters long, is an old English word used as an expletive. Another, six letters long and often shortened to three, is understood as a slur against gays or behavior associated with them. The third, four letters...
Thoughts on the ObamaCare Rollout
Reading the WSJ editorial on ObamaCare today, it occurred to me that we may very well be bearing witness to the most epic crash-and-burn of big government politics in this nation's history. Many have been warning that a government takeover of 1/7th of the nation's...
One in Ten
If you spend any time reading politics on the internet, you're bound to come across demonstrations of stupidity so breathtaking in their magnitude that you lose hope for humanity. The sad realization is that these people can and do vote just as you do, and their votes...
Sustainability
If you take any interest at all in food trends, it's certain you've heard the term "sustainable." Sustainability is the latest fad in the foodie world, and it has spread out into the various liberal-chic and progressive neighborhoods and social circles. It's broken...
The Corporate Welfare Straw Man
One of the standard accusations that liberals, Democrats, progressives and other statists lob at libertarians is that libertarians are simply closeted Republicans, conservative-lite, or right-wingers who want to use drugs. As "proof" of this, they flesh out the...
Politicians vs CEOs
Today I came across this quote by Frank Herbert, the science fiction writer who authored the book Dune: All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. The...
Musings on Global Warming
I've been skeptical of the alarmist version of anthropogenic global warming for some time now. The roots and basis of my skepticism are fleshed out in a much longer piece that's still in the works, but all that can be set aside in favor of a short and practical...
Why Does Hillary Still Poll Well?
On the face of things, Hillary Clinton should be just one of countless failed politicians, either working for a lobbying firm that could exploit her network of contacts or running some foundation and speechifying for six figures to true believers. Yet we are bombarded...
Government vs Business – A False Dichotomy
Conventional wisdom, common vernacular, or whatever you want to call it tells us that Republicans are the party of Business, Democrats the party of Government, and Business and Government are the two ends of a spectrum or two poles of a magnet. If you think business...
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