Orwell, Occam’s Razor and Orlando

A man, born and raised in the Islamic faith, whose father was a vocal critic of America, a vocal supporter of the Taliban, whose faith not only calls homosexuality a sin but calls for its punishment, called 911 to pledge allegiance to ISIS, then walked into a gay bar...

Bitterly Clinging… To The Narrative

In the first (brilliant) season of the HBO series True Detective, Detective Hart (played by Woody Harrison) cautions Detective Kohle (played by Matthew McConaughey) against letting predilections or presumptions interfere with rational analysis: You attach assumptions...

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...

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...

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...