The House Gets Its Vig

by | Aug 4, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Politics, Taxation

This morning’s news includes a report that fantasy sports gambling is now legal in the state. This brings the number of states where one can play on-line fantasy sports, which for football alone is a market estimated at $70 billion, to forty. Fans of fantasy...

Democrats and the Constitution

by | Aug 4, 2016 | Election, Politics

There is a delicious irony in the kerfuffle over Donald Trump’s attacks on Khizr Khan, the father of a US soldier who died in Iraq, after Khan’s speech at the Democratic National Convention last week. Khan challenged Trump’s stance on Muslims and...
President Id

President Id

by | Aug 3, 2016 | Election, Politics

Not content to accept that he overdid it in his response to Khizr Khan, the father of a US soldier who died in Iraq who spoke at the DNC last week, Donald Trump continued to bark instead of dialing things back. The liberal press is making hay of this latest unforced...

Wait Until It’s Free

by | Aug 2, 2016 | Education, Health, Politics

Political satirist P. J. O’Rourke famously quipped: If you think health care is expensive now, wait until … it’s free. He first offered this observation way back in May, 1993, when then-First Lady Hillary Clinton was leading an effort to overhaul health...

Scare Crows, Straw Men, and Popcorn

by | Aug 1, 2016 | Election, Politics

Today’s New York Post features an opinion column by law professor F. H. Buckley, wherein he notes his amusement with: NeverTrump conservatives who’ll support Hillary, or at least do what they can to ensure her election, because they say Trump isn’t a real...

Papers, Please…

by | Aug 1, 2016 | Culture, Election, Guns, Opinion, Politics

The Cold War thriller The Hunt For Red October included a gracious exchange between the Soviet submarine captain (Marko Ramius, played by Sean Connery) and one of his officers (Vasili Borodin, played by Sam Neill). In it, Borodin mused on what he would do after they...