Archeological records indicate that glass was first invented in ancient Egypt by a bored 25th Century time traveler named Bob Swizzle, who had nothing better to do on his lunch breaks than to…
In the late 1600s, British political philosopher John Locke told folks that the state, i.e. government, only existed to protect the lives and property of people against encroachments by others.…
The tragedy of shattered illusions.
Those emotion-sustaining beliefs in heroes, those expectations for fairness in a world of fallible people. How easily those expectations can be…
There once was a tried and true saying, “Charity begins at home,” meaning that, usually, people who know one another have the most emotional connections and incentives to help each…
Egads! According to leftist media pundits, President Trump’s new moves to begin repealing the textbook fascist insurance law known as “Obamacare” will cause people to die!
Medical doctor,…
CNN can’t seem to buy a break. Just weeks after one of its silly hosts, Don Lemon, became publicly drunk on the air and began waxing wistful about how he was “ready for a relationship," the…
At the height of the country-punk-reggae-hip-hop craze in May of 1967, a song written and performed by Scott McKenzie hit the radio and changed the music industry. It was called “San…
Last week, the U.S. government announced a new travel ban that, as expected, collectivist critics of President Trump seem to have blithely overlooked. It’s not about foreigners coming…
On Sunday, January 22, 2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order that reinstates the so-called “Mexico City Rule,” a move that stops all US funding to international “Non-…
Fish stories abound in politics. Office holders and those who aspire to make their living off wealth redistribution and legal extortion have a perverse knack for lying in order to make things seem…
Sometimes politicians are so mind-bogglingly elitist, they attempt such breathtakingly courageous feats of hubris that one wonders if they’re engaging in new forms of ironic performance…
On January 1, 2017, courageous Georgia Tech Climatologist Judith Curry resigned from her tenured position at the university, offering as her main reason her growing frustration with the…
On January 3, 2017, the first day of the 115th Congress, North Carolina Republican Representative Richard Hudson introduced a bill that would lend a stamp of federal approval to state-to-…
There’s nothing quite like opening a new year with political lies on a so-called “news” network that, only twelve hours earlier, saw one of its bubble-gum hosts…
By a vote of 92-7, with one not voting, the United States Senate on December 8 passed the annual -- and notoriously anti-freedom -- National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which…
It’s gift-giving time, that time when people of various religious faiths think about buying something entertaining, meaningful or both for their friends and loved ones. So, in the spirit…
The government has to work very hard to protect us from ourselves, and one of the most important areas where we troglodytes just don’t get it is the “settled science” that industrial generated…
There’s something almost sweetly reassuring in the predictability of collectivist hypocrisy. Leftists advocates of so-called “women’s rights” (as opposed to just “rights,”…
In the climax of the classic musical film “The Wizard of Oz,” (spoilers!) Dorothy throws water on the Wicked Witch of the West, and “liquidates” her, inspiring the witch’s tough-looking…
US politicians employ myriad slippery terms when it comes to “international agreements.” We hear things like “joint and multilateral declarations,” “international resolutions,” “…
On Sept. 28, 2016, supporters of the right to self-defense as codified in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution were handed multiple federal court “near victories” in a single…
This story begins not with the immediate, breaking news issue, but with a preface, a “Once Upon a Time…”
Once upon a time, when residents of the United States talked about…
On October 1, 2016, the power to “grant domain names” on the Internet – that thing Al Gore told everyone he invented – will be turned over from the US to a non-…
Throughout the course of history, many utopians have promoted dreamy concepts of the “ideal city.” Plato and Socrates thought it would be a brilliant idea to have…