“It was a pleasure to burn.”
Thus began Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian novel, “Fahrenheit 451”, with the testimonial of the tale’s protagonist, Guy Montag, a “Fireman” who did not stop fires, but was paid by the government to burn books.
For many years, the perversity of Bradbury’s dark “future” America repulsed and frightened readers. But, evidently, not everyone found it repulsive. Take…
There’s nothing more pleasurable for “trick or treat” time – or anytime, for that matter – than spending some hours reading and listening to the words of the ever-charming, always authentic Native American Indian and paladin of “the little guy,” Elizabeth Warren. And recently, the Massachusetts Senator made the experience doubly exciting, not by turning on a livestream and awkwardly saying, “…
As I reported in March of 2018, the light-on-wisdom, heavy-on-compulsion, government of California recently mandated that all new homes must be at least 50 percent solar-powered by 2020, which not only is an immoral command on peaceful homebuilders and buyers, it is an imposition of higher expenses and energy inefficiency.
And, now, it turns out that solar-paneled California residents were sadly…
Superficial pop media deflection when it comes to Joe Biden’s son being appointed to Burisma, Ukraine’s largest energy corporation, whether then-Vice President Biden had any influence in that or later cessation of corruption investigations into the corporation, and Donald Trump’s conversation about these troubling occurrences with the President of Ukraine shed a great deal more light than heat.…
As if unconstitutional attacks on the right to keep and bear arms – statutes such as license mandates, waiting periods, background checks, “Red Flag” codes, and outright bans on certain kinds of firearms – on federal and state levels were not enough, the overlords of Tacoma, Washington, have decided to follow the non-success of Chicago to make it even harder to exercise the right to self-defense…
Members of many generations likely are familiar with the seemingly dark-hearted, perpetually gray, totalitarian stop-motion television character, The Burgher Meister Meisterburger, from “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”, and they probably can hear his voice (performed by Paul Frees ) now, barking that classic, Germanic-tinged command: “NO MORE TOISS!” He was the antithesis of the anarchic,…
In their never-ending zeal to mess with other people’s lives and tell others how to engage in voluntary commerce, the California Assembly recently passed a bill that, when it takes effect in January, could force freelance writers to spend much more of their time searching for new markets than actually writing.
As Katie Kilkenny writes for The Hollywood Reporter, the statute is known as AB 5, was…
Thursday, October 17, saw news of yet another big teachers’ union strike, replete with angry, sign-wielding “educators” and fawning CNN coverage for their noble sacrifice, all intended to bring “justice and equity” to what they describe as an “essential public good” -- that being government-run, taxpayer-funded schooling.
This time, the teachers striking are in Chicago, a city that in 2014…
Pro-liberty folks have been aware of this for centuries, but perhaps now, after years of seeing supposedly “peace-loving” leftists use lies, character assassination, violence, and threats of violence to shut down non-collectivist speech and dissent, the so-called “moderates” out there are starting to wake up to the fact that collectivism requires and condones the suppression of individual speech…
A few days ago, I wrote a piece and shot a video covering the fact that in the first two weeks of New Jersey’s rights-violating so-called “Red Flag” statute, agents of the state used it more than once a day to go after people’s firearms. One video viewer commented that he was from Massachusetts, and worried about such a statute passing there. I told him the Massachusetts “Red Flag” statute…
