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...

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....

Raging At Futility

The recent San Bernadino shootings spawned an interesting twist on the long-running debate about gun ownership and gun violence. It didn’t just rekindle the gun debate in the liberal press, it stoked that fire and fanned those flames to unprecedented levels. The...

Doing… Something

The Left wasted absolutely no time pouncing on the most recent mass shooting horror in its zeal to punish the law abiding and undo the Second Amendment. Before we knew anything beyond the fact of a mass shooting situation in progress, Obama declared: there are some...