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…
The spirit of Robin Hood is alive and well in the United States, and some US politicians aren’t happy about it.
Invoking the name of the famous fictional (and possibly real) hero of medieval England, these contemporary rebels have, for a decade, set about righting wrongs not with arrows, but with coins.
They are a small group of freedom-lovers in the city of Keene, New Hampshire, who deposit…
One of the paradoxically tiresome, yet energizing, things about many leftists is their overstated emotionalism about “the tradition of free speech” in the U.S. - running right alongside their rabid attempts to shut down dissent.
College campuses are infamous for students and leftist professors waxing warm and fuzzy about "protest and dissent" against authority – until it’s their preferred…
The internet is abuzz this week with new revelations about the towering edifice of hypocrisy and left-wing censorship being built by the controllers of Twitter.
Exactly four weeks ago, Twitter permanently banned gay conservative commentator and humorist Milo Yiannopoulos from the platform, claiming that he incited abuse of comic actress Leslie Jones after, get this, she reacted harshly to his…
Ahh, how to begin a story about “transgender accommodations” and the government?
Well, one could simply look at the issue of “transgender accommodations” as a political economist, and see that the conflict over new rules and laws teaches us something incredibly important about the nature of politics.
Let’s take two breaking news items as examples. First, on Aug. 15, Dominic Holden of BuzzFeed…
In May, we reported on the coming attack on the burgeoning “vape” e-cigarette industry by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In June, we followed up that information with news that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was joining the FDA in the onslaught and in promoting the false propaganda that vape liquids and vape devices are “tobacco products” – not because they have any…
“Let them eat cake.”
Apocryphally attributed to Marie-Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI of France prior to the revolution, the smarmy line she supposedly offered when told people were dying of hunger keeps ringing over and over in culture after culture, almost as if history is repeating.
The newest echo comes to us from, where else, the socialist utopia of Venezuela, where, according to Josh…
