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…
A rhetorical theme is being struck by a number of public figures in the wake of the Manhattan bombing that seriously injured nineteen people, on September 17, 2016.
It’s not about security, terroristic threats, privacy, the attacker, his anger at US foreign policy, or anything along those lines. It’s about prices. Specifically, the criticism is being leveled at the ride-sharing giant, Uber, and…
As a journalistic institution, the dusty old Washington Post has a checkered reputation. Some Americans considered the paper an emblem of heroism thanks to the break its reporters Woodward and Bernstein made in the 1970s Watergate Scandal. Others cite the paper as one of the most economically left-leaning, pro-nanny-state rags in the nation.
But whether left, or right, or centrist, or anything…
People can tolerate a lot of frustration. We tend to be forgiving. But for most everyone, there come points in interpersonal relationships and communication when people exclaim, as character Howard Beale of the 1976 motion picture “Network” yelled, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it any more!”
Perhaps September 11, 2016 was one such day for many people watching NBC News, for on…
In Medieval times, Kings and Queens interested in maintaining control over small, outlying geographical areas arranged a complex system of fiefdoms, vesting feudal lords with their imprimatur to tell the local serfs and vassals what to do, and granting them the “power” to extract taxes – a portion of which would be given to the royals.
Despite Constitutional strictures created to insure the…
In the late 19th century, great American novelist and freedom-lover Mark Twain is said to have told a British audience that rumors of his demise had been greatly exaggerated. Although this is a misquote, it certainly fit his image as a wry and witty wordsmith.
It is also the kind of sentiment that contemporary British leftists might employ to gloss over the fact that their stodgy old National…
What do one of the most popular medical doctors in US media and a smart, upstart blogger have in common?
If you guessed that they were both severed from left-leaning media organizations after they had the temerity to report on concerns about Hillary Clinton’s health and health care, you’re quite savvy.
In the span of a week, CNN, one of ‘Murica’s biggest television news networks, dropped…
On Tuesday, August 23, the US “Justice” Department embarked on yet another of its brazenly Orwellian sorties against a group of businesses its bureaucrats do not like – offering observers a wonderful chance to decipher a host of double-speak terms and to compare the difference between what they say is predatory and what actually is predatory.
The department Tuesday filed a lawsuit against a…
