2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (212+ words) In fact, when you consider the moral history of the last six or seven decades, is an assembly of eleven out of twelve moral idiots really surprising? Under such circumstances is it really fair to classify them “moral idiots?” Isn’t…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (419+ words) September 11, 2001 – history pivoted. Geopolitical history, national history, personal history – all of it pivoted. Such days are rare and not easily forgotten. And yet, within a generation, maybe two, they are reduced to a few paragraphs in a history book. The…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (500+ words) In the movie Roadhouse, Patrick Swayze offers some advice to the bouncers in a very rough bar – “be nice, until it is time to not be nice.” I have been wondering of late if we, as a society, have forgotten…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (408+ words) Everybody talks about “equity” these days, but what they seek when they do so is anything but equity. They instead seek an advantage of some sort, claiming recompense for some unrelated event, and in so doing they absolutely destroy the…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (226+ words) According to the U.S. Department of Labor, ” Labor Day is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers.” So we have a national holiday to celebrate work. But we also have an entire national bureaucracy that enables…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (321+ words) There was an fascinating on-line debate this week over the question of whether the far-left will ever awaken to the damage they have wrought. Some think they will be horrified, some think them pathologically unable to ever do so, (HT:…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (175+ words) This morning, for the first time in weeks, none of the stuff I looked through contained a headline about Abdul El-Sayed. I think that disproves a theory I have been working on. But it also proves something wonderful about the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (249+ words) What we choose to fear, and not to fear, is sometimes astonishing. I started thinking about this yesterday when I wrote about AI. AI is a thing – a thing we made – any mischief or evil that might flow from it…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (341+ words) It has not been a happy week. We began the week looking at the negative effects the advance of some Islamic expressions is having. We turned to looking at how our politics rob us of our happiness and our mourning....

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (118+ words) Not everything that is “golden” glitters – California. The great debate is whether it is incompetence or corruption that lies at the heart of the problem. Sadly, it’s both. The real question is which one is worse. Anyway, here is this…...