Socialism’s Mad Men

A mere few years back, the American Left was doing its best to avoid association with the term socialism. Hardcore liberals weren’t happy about it, because they liked the principles of socialism, but came to understand that the rest of the nation, and not just...

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...

Euphemizing Mass Shootings

In comments made regarding the recent Planned Parenthood shooting, President Obama stated: I say this every time we have one of these mass shootings. This just doesn’t happen in other countries. This statement, being offered in Paris, less than three weeks after...

History? What History?

Later this month, leaders and solons from all over the world will converge in Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, dubbed COP21. Their objective will be to achieve a new global agreement on “climate,” which really means an agreement...