Hillary’s Libya Mess

The Economist reports that ISIS has established a strong foothold in the city of Sirte, which is in the middle of Libya’s Mediterranean coastline. ISIS reportedly controls about 180 miles of that coastline, centered on Sirte, and has 5000 fighters active there....

Human Trafficking Turned On Its Head

I often find a fair bit of schadenfreude when I witness by-the-book liberals twisting in the winds of dissonance. One of the more satisfying forms of this comes when an organization exalted by the Left says something that the Left cannot abide. Watching the outrage,...

The Burned Hand Teaches Best

The title of this essay is the first half of a quote from J.R.R. Tolkien. I have long believed that in this bit of wisdom lies the only solution to the endlessly creeping statism that’s been engulfing the United States the way The Blob did its victims....

Puritans and Guns

Most gun rights advocates know that it’s illegal for civilians to own machine guns. While not entirely true (with a special permit, in certain states, one CAN own a fully automatic rifle manufactured before 1986), it’s close enough to true for practical...

Who Wants To Live Forever

Health care and health insurance have been major topics of discussion and divisive issues ever since President Obama decided to make health insurance reform a priority of his first term in office, and were high concept topics for decades before that. One of the most...