The Truth About BDS
Bill Maher, smug, arrogant gadfly that he is, gets a lot of things wrong, but occasionally gets something right. Today’s installment of blind-squirrel/broken-clock has to do with the BDS movement. For those who aren’t familiar, BDS stands for...
read moreThat Which Can Be Given
A recent conversation about organ donations reminded me of another, decades-old, conversation I had with a co-worker during a company blood drive. Apparently, he had donated regularly for many years. Then, if I recall correctly, a family was soon to undergo a...
read moreLet’s Save Some Lives
The El Paso and Dayton mass shootings look like they might “succeed” where previous iterations did not in spurring the government to “do something.” While liberals are broken-record demanding an assault weapon ban (despite the last one...
read moreBorder Bottleneck Barrier Barristers
We adapted to World War Two by training up an army nearly from scratch. We built a Navy of globe-spanning capability in short order. We created a new intelligence institution that performed better than its professional replacement. With tools adapted to the need, we...
read moreTipper Trump
Movie naughtiness in the pre-MPAA era. “Jazz musicians,” code for black entertainers who smoked pot. Elvis Presley’s hips. Comic book salaciousness. The Beatles’ mop tops. Jim Morrison saying “get much higher” on Ed Sullivan....
read moreEither/Or Terrorism
We witness, yet again, the horror of innocents going about their daily routines murdered en masse by a piece of human garbage. Twice in one day, in El Paso and Dayton. The history of such events cautions us to take our time in our pursuit of understanding, to avoid...
read moreWhat Has Changed?
Two more mass shootings, and an entirely predictable spectrum of responses and proposed remedies from the usual sources. Politicians, both from the Rahm Emanuel angle and as a general rule, leap immediately to advance the solutions that fit their ideologies....
read moreMore Climate Doomsaying
The usual places have been buzzing over the latest “deadline” to save the planet, one that’s quite interesting in both its timing and its delayed dissemination. A BBC report quotes “Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, founder and now director emeritus...
read moreFascist Medicine
Much (deserved) shade was thrown at some of the Democratic Presidential candidates’ plans to institute a “Medicare for All” system that outlawed private insurance plans. I expect that someone got in their ears and told them a – that the...
read moreAlpha By Proxy
Playwright, auteur, and late-in-life conservative convert David Mamet referred to socialism as the abdication of responsibility. The resurgence of socialism in the American political landscape, itself born of the “childing” of age-of-majority youth via...
read moreThe Tyranny of the List
One of my best friends keeps lists. Not lists of to-do things, like one might imagine (although it’s safe to assume he has those as well), but inventory lists, including one that tallies every movie he’s ever seen. I do such lists, and they include musical...
read moreNew York’s Icarian Overreach
Two bits of regulatory news in New York City reminded me today of the tragedy of Icarus. The first, a gun rights case before the Supreme Court, has the city’s regulators and state’s lawmakers in a panic. The second, the recent massive expansion of the...
read morePolitical Money and Weaponized Doxxing
Money and politics. They go together like cheese and crackers, chips and salsa, coffee and donuts, pencil and paper, peanut butter and jelly (or bananas if you’re Elvis), milk and cookies, and dogs and ponies. More so, in fact. Money in politics is speech. It is...
read moreA Political Platform For Us All…
… To Love and Hate Allow me to offer a campaign platform: A nationalized health care system, funded and managed at the state/local level, with private health insurance purchaseable by those who want it. A transition to a privatized, defined-contribution Social...
read morePolice Brutality: Symptom, Not Disease
Prevalent in the Presidential debates was publicity over “The Talk” candidate Bill De Blasio’s had to have with his son Dante. The Mayor needed to warn his mixed-race, African-looking son of the dangers of an encounter with his own NYPD. Evidently,...
read moreSide-Stepping Equality
My recent post about Trump’s tweet aimed at the four freshmen congresswomen now dubbed ‘the squad’ began as a musing on the nature of equality and racism in our society today. As J.R.R. Tolkien commented, the “tale grew in the telling,”...
read moreRedefining Language For Glorious Victory
I was given a very informative assignment this weekend: specifically, reading up on the newest definition of racism that is popular in left-wing circles. You may be familiar with the previous definition of racism, which is often abbreviated as “racism =...
read moreBorder Bottlenecks and B-1 Bombers
Q: What do our border emergencies and the readiness of our military have in common? A: The Firemen First Principal. This refers to the government’s way of closing down its vital functions before they look to strip out waste or alter failed policies. Once...
read moreCritical Theory and the Frankfurt School
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an opinion piece I came across, years ago. It is written about a specific topic, described in the title, but the value of the article FAR transcends the “metal scene” in its insightful history, explanation, and analysis of...
read moreSocialism and Justice
Half a century ago, President Lyndon Johnson decided that he would make the Democratic Party the champion of minorities and the oppressed. In doing so, he upended the party’s long history and broke with the segregationists in its ranks. He was successful, at...
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