Earnest Fools

Or… Giving Away The Rights They Don’t Think Matter Yesterday, protestors marched all over the world to protest gun violence and demand more gun control be imposed on America’s citizens. These marches, led by the young, captured national headlines...

Brinkmanship By Design

Another day, another grotesque, bloated, pork-laden omnibus spending bill, passed in the looming shadow of a government shut-down. A bill so long and convoluted and presented so close to deadline that no one even had a chance to read it all (Senator Rand Paul tried)....

Trump’s Teeter Totter

Or – Never Get Involved In a Trade War With China In what could only have been predicted by… anybody, the stock market took a dump in response to Trump’s announcement of $60B worth of tariffs on Chinese goods, and the resultant fears of a brewing...

Preserving The Problem

Consider this adage, from writer Carl Shirky: Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. Now, consider the laundry list of social problems that have lingered for decades, despite the best efforts of big government, advocacy groups,...

Inconvenient Events

A school shooting incident in Maryland splashed across the national news this morning. As is now the norm, it got reported across many platforms in near-real-time, with vague early information eventually giving way to concrete facts. At the time of this writing, it...