More Hierarchical Clarity

A recent editorial at Investors Business Daily discusses the Left’s abandonment of respect for science with regard to GMO foods and crops. This is nothing new, but even in “old news,” we sometimes find new information. Of particular interest is the...

Too Much Information

Information, — for lack of a better word — is good. In case it’s not obvious, either ipso facto or from the hyperlink, I’m channeling Gordon Gekko’s speech on greed from the movie Wall Street. Information is right. Information works....

We Don’t Trust You… Trust Us!

Every time something really bad happens, people cry for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people. — Penn Jillette The President, the main stream press, liberals, and anti-gun folks (but, I repeat myself) have turned the Orlando...

*Something* Must Be Done!

Our human nature prompts us to react when confronted with a stressful action or situation. The fight-or-flight reaction is physiological, and thus we naturally seek some sort of measurable response when we witness a bad act or bad situation. So it goes with atrocities...

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...