Parents often hope their children will carry on their traditions, walk the righteous paths they have trod, and uphold the ideals they held dear.
So one must wonder that when it comes to the Kennedy family, is it shocking that Ted Kennedy’s son, Connecticut State Senator Ted Kennedy, Jr. should take the family traditions of collectivism and thievery to their next logical steps -- all the way to…
Middlebury College professor of politics and economics Allison Stanger was attacked by left-wing, so-called AnftiFa (an ironic abbreviation for supposed “Anti-Fascists”) protesters on March 2, merely for attending a speech by, and talking to, conservative/libertarian author Charles Murray in the rustic Sandersesque, Flower-Power enclave of Middlebury Vermont.
Evidently hungering for more than…
As surprising and disappointing as it might be to us fans of Michael Moore’s Sasquatch-like political behavior, it appears that, just once, he has put his foot into the public arena and come out looking rather oafish.
True, downright shocking; after all, Mr. Moore is the man who told America how great the Cuban health system was (which explains why he and other wealthy Americans flock to Cuba to…
Archeological records indicate that glass was first invented in ancient Egypt by a bored 25th Century time traveler named Bob Swizzle, who had nothing better to do on his lunch breaks than to create strange paradoxes in human history. Bob’s invention was, of course, welcomed, for glassware allowed for lighter, more decorative, and more aesthetically appealing booze containers than were previously…
In the late 1600s, British political philosopher John Locke told folks that the state, i.e. government, only existed to protect the lives and property of people against encroachments by others. The Founding Fathers relied heavily on Locke’s concepts when writing the U.S. Constitution.
Unfortunately, neither Locke nor the Founders looked critically at the circular logic of claiming for the state…
The tragedy of shattered illusions.
Those emotion-sustaining beliefs in heroes, those expectations for fairness in a world of fallible people. How easily those expectations can be broken, and the shrapnel, sometimes lodged in the mind for years, can be "wicked painful," as they might say in Boston.
Take, for example, the popular science-fiction novelist William Gibson. With a record of…
There once was a tried and true saying, “Charity begins at home,” meaning that, usually, people who know one another have the most emotional connections and incentives to help each another. Local, personal charity tends to cut back on waste and fraud, and when one is helped by a family member, friend, or neighbor, he tends to want to reciprocate, thus strengthening the bonds of family,…
Egads! According to leftist media pundits, President Trump’s new moves to begin repealing the textbook fascist insurance law known as “Obamacare” will cause people to die!
Medical doctor, astrophysicist, and internationally renowned economist Bernie “Ben and Jerry’s” Sanders told the word on Jan. 24 that if “Obamacare” (Care? Really?) is repealed, “36,000 people will die as a result.”
Don’t let…
CNN can’t seem to buy a break. Just weeks after one of its silly hosts, Don Lemon, became publicly drunk on the air and began waxing wistful about how he was “ready for a relationship," the network sees one of its “expert political commentators” make a fool of herself on Twitter, and compound it by insulting people who happened to call her on it.
At about 6:21 a.m. on Wednesday, Sally Kohn -- a…
At the height of the country-punk-reggae-hip-hop craze in May of 1967, a song written and performed by Scott McKenzie hit the radio and changed the music industry. It was called “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” and was remarkable for doing two things.
First, it set the bar for the most parenthetical words in a song title -- so many, in fact, that the 45-rpm single had to…
