Escalation, Not Equivalence

Escalation, Not Equivalence

by | Jan 27, 2021 | Opinion, Politics

A libertarian site needs another article on “homo sapiens good,” “homo politicus bad” like a fish needs a bicycle. Yet, here we are again, with obvious points of morality for individuals twisted beyond recognition as they grind through the mind...
Social Corrosion

Social Corrosion

by | Jan 26, 2021 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics

While looking for the exact wording of a Stalin quote, I found this nugget on a Wikipedia page: [E]specially in Stalin’s Soviet Union, Mao’s China and Pol Pot’s Cambodia, a fanatical certainty that socialism could be made to work motivated communist...
He’s Gone. Move On

He’s Gone. Move On

by | Jan 21, 2021 | Election, Opinion, Politics

Yesterday, Joe Biden got sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. In his acceptance speech, Biden spoke the word “unity/uniting” eleven times, and he declared that, We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban,...
Power and the Purge

Power and the Purge

by | Jan 19, 2021 | Election, Opinion, Politics

The Capitol riot is quite possibly the biggest gift the Democrats could have wished for, ahead of Biden’s inauguration. It will be used to vilify the entirety of the Republican Party and its voters, no matter how horrified they were at the riot, no matter how...