Hierarchical Clarity

It was rather predictable that the Orlando shooting would devolve into an effort to further strip citizens of their rights. The Left wants gun rights infringed in various fashions, the Right wants more power granted to law enforcement, both sides want to curtail 4th...
Very Smart and Very Wrong

Very Smart and Very Wrong

There’s a long-standing tradition in politics of deeming the guy at the top “stupid” if you don’t like his politics. George W. Bush is arguably the most famous of our recent presidents to suffer such slings and arrows, but if you Google...

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...

Orwell, Occam’s Razor and Orlando

A man, born and raised in the Islamic faith, whose father was a vocal critic of America, a vocal supporter of the Taliban, whose faith not only calls homosexuality a sin but calls for its punishment, called 911 to pledge allegiance to ISIS, then walked into a gay bar...