Navigating the Maze of Human Reality: Lessons from the Complexity of Choice and Perception
In the intricate dance of existence, we find ourselves grappling with a world brimming with choices, each veiled in shades of ambiguity.
Culture
Our Great U.S. Culture War Series, No.5a.
The discussions of “Who Are We?” & “How Now Do We Live?” are essential questions and controversies that are at the center of the Culture War.
America Lost; It Doesn’t Have to Happen
America is currently sinking. That doesn’t mean however, we cannot right thee boat in time to keep ourselves from drowning.
Satire: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Wild Ride to Doomsville!
Ladies and gentlemen, saddle up your horses and hold onto your tinfoil hats because it’s time to talk about the four horsemen of the apocalypse! No, not the biblical ones, but their modern-day cousins, wreaking havoc in our world.
The Minarchy and Police States
Is America becoming a police state? If so, the solution is there – de-fang government.
Leadership, Before and After Military Service
Once you’re no longer in the Army, no one is under orders to give you a chance at leadership.
Why Was ‘Peanut’ Not Behind Bars?
Releasing violent criminals early, even one day before the maximum time that they can be kept locked up legally, increases the danger to the community.
After “Sound of Freedom,” Now What?
I finally got to see Sound of Freedom, after waiting a year for it to come out in theaters. Anything hurting children is painful to watch and makes me furious.
Satire: The Great Reset: A Utopian Dream of Owning Nothing and Being Ecstatically Miserable
Today in Cloft’s Corner, Dave brings his rapier wit to the subject of property rights and their relationship to personal liberty.
The Woke Revolution: Bringing Unity Through Division
In a stunning display of irony, the woke social justice DEI religion of the left has managed to achieve the impossible: creating even more division and polarization in the country.
The Conspiracist Chronicles: Chapter 1
Arming the masses with tropes and cop-outs to combat evidence based arguments is the most effective way to enact unpopular policy
Green: Are Our Systems Failing?
Who is John Galt? In Ayn Rand’s classic novel Atlas Shrugged, she described a future world in which proliferating regulations and restrictions progressively rob the world’s most productive people of the fruits of their labor. One such person (John Galt) offended that he was denied the rewards of his work, swore that he would “stop …
Apocalypse Now: The Hilariously Grim Circus of the 21st Century
Today in Cloft’s Corner, Dave channels Francis Ford Coppola in his socio-economic version of Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.”
The Graduation Gauntlet: Engines of Ignorance and Consumption
Ah, the modern high school graduate – armed with diplomas and dreams, but clueless about the most basic distinctions in the world of engines.
These Are OUR Children, Not the Government’s!
Children have the right to feel safe, respected, and protected while at school. I couldn’t agree more. But they are OUR children, not government’s!
Jimmy Buffett’s Sage Wisdom: Laughter in the Face of Insanity
Today in Cloft’s Corner, Dave enlists the help of that well known tropical troubadour, Jimmy Buffet, to help regain our sanity.
What the Social Engineering of the 1960s Got Wrong
We use race as a kind of shorthand for describing different characterizations in the human gene pool, in a lot of ways, it is misused for many things.
The Cultural Evolution of Ideological Movements: From Political Correctness to DEI and the Rise of Cancel Culture
The cultural evolution of ideological movements in the United States has been a dynamic journey, marked by significant shifts in societal attitudes and values.
The Irony Chronicles: Angry Advocate Turns on the Unvaccinated
Today in Cloft’s Corner, Dave turns his rapier wit back on the Karens and their angst that we all haven’t taken the jab despite their nagging.
The Problem Is Not Mass Incarceration; the Problem Is That Not Enough People Are Incarcerated, For Not a Long Enough Time!
Yes, I’ve spent a rather significant amount of bandwidth reporting on the unchecked crime in Philadelphia, the growth of which many, including me, have attributed to the lax-on-crime policies of the George Soros sponsored, police-hating and criminal loving defense lawyer now ‘serving’ as the city’s chief prosecutor, but it isn’t just the City of Brotherly …