In a world where politicians come and go, it sure is reassuring to know that one thing about them is perennial: their capacity to engage in the fine “art” of grandstanding.
And among the many doing yeoman’s work in that area, California’s Governor, Gavin Newsom, appears to be quite adept. As Christian Britschgi reports for Reason, on Tuesday, April 23, Newsom made a public spectacle of his “…
Here’s a story that might prompt some of your leftist friends to argue before they get the deeper point.
The Royal Canadian Mint just revealed its new move into Social Justice Warriordom. It’s…
The “Two Men Kissing” Dollar coin.
Indeed. The Royal Canadian Mint called it a “key milestone for lesbian, gay, transgender, queer and two-spirited people.”
The coin is one of those modernistic “it…
Without looking into it further, the Guardian headline might raise an internal alarm.
“'Disastrous' lack of diversity in AI industry perpetuates bias, study finds” it screamed, subtitled: “Report says an overwhelmingly white and male field has reached ‘a moment of reckoning’ over discriminatory systems.”
But as many people who read “reports” know, the publications often come from organizations…
We’ve known for a long time rarely to expect an honest apology from an agent of the state. They deflect. They blame circumstance. They use the passive voice, claiming, ”Mistakes were made,” rather than admitting, “I made mistakes.” And, of course, there’s the classic, “I’m sorry if you were offended,” putting the onus on the listener, not the speaker.
Well, it looks as if Senator Kamala…
Courage.
The Cowardly Lion had it in the land of Oz.
Heart.
The Tin Man had it, even though he thought he didn’t.
Brains.
The Scarecrow had them in abundance.
And L. Frank Baum wrote 14 volumes of the Oz novels, so he must have had the brains, heart, and courage to work on them despite the labor required to write entertaining fiction.
But, according to a tweet posted by the Library Journal…
If one were to have believed Al Gore over the past twenty years, one would think that ol’ Mother earth were like the Wicked Witch of the West in “The Wizard of Oz,” that the planet is screaming, “I’m melting! Mellllting!” and bemoaning its destruction because of man’s uncaring use of energy-packed fossil fuels.
But another scientific study has appeared that throws cold water on Gore’s…
If you’re like me, and I know I am, you probably remember CW McCall’s hit protest song, “Convoy.”
It ushered into U.S. parlance CB radio terms like, “Breaker One-Nine” (a reference to Channel 19, the most popular for US truckers at the time) and “Smokey” (a term for police, like “Smokey Bear” and “heat”), as well as “Bear” (another term for police, akin to “the Fuzz” from the inner city…
When I lecture in the field of political economics, I often discuss an important clause in the supposed rulebook of the US Constitution called the “Full Faith and Credit” clause, specifically found in Article Four, Section One.
It reads:
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State.
The idea was that a legal…
Brittany Cooper, an Associate Professor of “Women’s and Gender Studies” and “African Studies” at Rutgers (really) just hit it big via NPR and a TED Talk discussing, get this, her belief that “time is racist”.
No joke.
Admittedly, her theory goes much wider and deeper than her insulting intro, which centers on what she calls “CP time”. But let’s begin there:
In the African-American…
History has shown that when they need cash – which is always – politicians won’t operate like business people.
They won’t offer things in exchange for voluntary patronage. They take the money through taxation, inflationary money-creation (stealing from your buying power), or borrowing, thus forcing future taxpayers to pay the bill. As a result, they’re continually searching for new ways to…
