When Manners Become Mandates

Not content with the myriad anti-discrimination laws already on the books, and in what I can only surmise to be a hell-bent intent to out-do the other politically-correct, social justice, statist hellhole cities scattered around the country, New York City recently...

Pitfalls of Public Accommodation

I’ve written here, here, and here, about how the public accommodation principle deprives business owners of economic liberty. Consider, now, an interesting story about efforts to organize a protest at the Mall of America in Minnesota. In brief, Black Lives...

The Feminist U-Turn

A recent story in The Guardian illustrated an interesting trend in the feminism/women’s rights world. That trend, appearing right in the headline, is a new contextualization of the concept of victimhood. Feminism has traditionally been about empowerment,...

The First Rule of Italian Driving

In the illegal road race classic The Gumball Rally, Franco, the race car driver portrayed by Raul Julia, told his boss and co-driver “And now, my friend, the first rule of Italian driving, (pauses to rip the rear view mirror off the windshield and throw it...

Taxpayers and Astronauts

Just under a decade ago, an Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral and sent a thousand pound spacecraft name New Horizons on a very, very, VERY long journey. With a little help from Jupiter’s gravity, New Horizons arrived at the distant ex-planet Pluto...