The government has to work very hard to protect us from ourselves, and one of the most important areas where we troglodytes just don’t get it is the “settled science” that industrial generated gasses are causing Earth to warm at a rate the planet has never seen and cannot handle.
Our federal overlords know that we're too thuggish to realize that global “climate change” is attributable to human…
There’s something almost sweetly reassuring in the predictability of collectivist hypocrisy. Leftists advocates of so-called “women’s rights” (as opposed to just “rights,” which should pretty much cover everyone) tell us that all women who claim they have been mistreated by men should be believed, yet many supported Hillary Clinton, who has a pretty bad personal record of disregarding abused…
In the climax of the classic musical film “The Wizard of Oz,” (spoilers!) Dorothy throws water on the Wicked Witch of the West, and “liquidates” her, inspiring the witch’s tough-looking servants and guards to sing, “Ding-Dong, The Witch Is Dead.”
There won’t be public songs of joy in Cuba about the death of Papa Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, aka Fidel Castro, who passed away on Friday night,…
US politicians employ myriad slippery terms when it comes to “international agreements.” We hear things like “joint and multilateral declarations,” “international resolutions,” “frameworks,” and other nonsensical Orwellian terms that should mean very little when it comes to US law and the Constitution. Unless an agreement reached by the President with another head of state is a Treaty to be…
On Sept. 28, 2016, supporters of the right to self-defense as codified in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution were handed multiple federal court “near victories” in a single decision from a very surprising source.
The ruling on five anti-self-defense measures codified in two statutes came from Ramona Villagomez Manglona, presiding judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern…
This story begins not with the immediate, breaking news issue, but with a preface, a “Once Upon a Time…”
Once upon a time, when residents of the United States talked about education, the vast, vast majority of them did not discuss a mandatory, top-down, government-run, taxpayer-funded, one-size-fits-all indoctrination machine based on a Prussian model and run by an essentially uniform cadre of…
On October 1, 2016, the power to “grant domain names” on the Internet – that thing Al Gore told everyone he invented – will be turned over from the US to a non-profit corporation created in 1998 by the US government called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In 2014, when the plan was finalized by a division of the Department of Commerce, Reason Magazine’s Jerry…
Throughout the course of history, many utopians have promoted dreamy concepts of the “ideal city.” Plato and Socrates thought it would be a brilliant idea to have everything – including the best kind of bed – decided by the “Guardians,” who would be those born with “gold” in their blood. Jeremy Bentham, one of the early proponents of the political philosophy of Utilitarianism, designed…
Every US state has a motto. Some are interesting, like “Live Free of Die,” in New Hampshire, and some are sadly truthful, like, “Our Government is Vampiric” in Massachusetts. Just kidding. It’s more along the lines of “We’ll Tax You to Death,” or something like that. Anyway, some, like the motto for the 49th state, Alaska, are very upbeat and offer a sense of adventure. In Alaska, politicians…
The federal “Justice Department” has just issued a threat that highlights the strange dynamics of two forms of government coercion working against each other.
In this case, the oppositional forces are the federal “Americans with Disabilities Act” (ADA) signed by George HW Bush, and the tax-funded university system of California, specifically, UC Berkeley.
Like similar poles on two magnets…
