Rock n' Roll. The soundtrack to rebellion. Across the decades, the motif has held, and the mythology of the rebellious rocker striding into the political arena to shatter the establishment with some deftly played power chords still stirs the imagination.
Sadly, the new world might not be ready for the revolution, because this week, after 116 years in business, and following years of attacks,…
Like claims that the viscous brown Aussie spread vegemite and equally vile British marmite are actually good to put into one’s mouth, American’s should be skeptical of popular left-wing claims that Aussie and British "gun control” measures reduced gun-related crime, or violent crime in general.
Let’s dig in, and offer some intellectual ammunition to keep in mind as the debate rages.
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San Francisco just keeps the craziness coming!
Last year, the city promised “Free College” (wink) for city residents.
A few months later, leftie snowflakes spread dog dung on a park where free speech advocates were going to hold a rally…
And now, the government of the “progressive city” that cares so much about the poor and desperate has fined a landlord $2 million for housing the homeless,…
President Trump yesterday proposed a massive change in the federal “Food Stamp” program that is just getting attention, and lots of praise. It’s being heralded as a long-due adjustment that will eliminate misuse, and bring a semblance of common sense to the system – the kind of thing “only a business owner could do in Washington”. But it is also open to some justified criticism for its lack of…
Last year, author and attorney Baylen Linnekin wrote an Op-Ed for the Sacramento Bee that opened the eyes of many folks to a fantastic new development in dining.
Imagine this: You’re a hungry go-getter, and don’t want to do your own cooking tonight. You could call for delivery, and the options aren’t bad. You could pick it up yourself, and, again, the options are pretty much the same. But what…
On February 8, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul used his time to speak on the Senate floor in two very constructive ways.
First, he exposed the fact that the Senate had been given just 12 hours to read the 700-page omnibus spending bill.
Second, he shed light on numerous little-known and bizarre federal expenditures over the past few years. Here are some of his greatest hits:
One. Between 2011 and…
What’s your favorite part of the Constitution?
Is it that portion allowing Congress to magically grant the president the power to create “National Parks” and “National Monuments” with a wave of his own ink-filled magic wand?
Sure, those “powers” don’t appear in the supposed rulebook. But they’re so much fun, and execs at the clothing company Patagonia agree. In fact, they are very upset at…
There’s a very old saying in the fashion industry, “What’s old is what’s new again," which, come to think of it, would mean that the saying itself is new, but regardless, it’s been around, and it perfectly applies to politics as well. It certainly applies to the “hot” idea of a “universal basic income," which, as I mentioned here at the MRC a few weeks ago, is being tested in Finland. Well, guess…
(U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Gabrielle Spradling)
Everyone knows that ideas originating in Chicago have got to be brilliant. After all, they elected Rahm Emanuel as their mayor, and what a guy he is. So what could possibly go wrong with the New Mexico legislature considering a plan to force high-schoolers to apply to college as a condition of their escaping the twelve-year public…
A professor at Michigan State University and an “antiracist facilitator” from Kalamazoo College are much more sensitive than you bounders and cads -- and they want you to know it. They’ve temporarily taken the reins of the intellectual hell-ride known as “Cultural Appropriation”, and are driving it a hard and fast towards its absurdist terminus. How are they making an already silly argument more…
