We Don’t Know What Happened-Stop Trying To Shove Bad Policy Down Our Throats
A madman murdered people in a mall. Before we jump off a cliff, mewling, “It’s the guns,” let’s take time to get the details.
Politics
CA Reparations Committee Approves Recommendations Costing Nearly 3X State’s Annual Budget
On Saturday, a California reparations task force approved a package that, if passed by the legislature, would cost $800 billion, or nearly three times the state’s annual budget. Although the new proposal did not state the size of the payments, an earlier version called for eligible blacks in the state to receive cash (or its …
Military Readiness-Through the Lens of Army Aviation
The Readiness of America’s Military is Under Internal Attack. Recent Accidents in Army Aviation, and Response thereto, Indicates What Plagues Our Military
The FBI Goes on a Snipe Hunt – While the Country Burns
While the FBI chases the elusive “white supremacist domestic terrorist,” it seems blind to other attacks on our society.
‘Decarceration’ Programs Are Deadly to Black Americans
It was two months ago that Congress, which is normally hands off but does have jurisdiction over the District of Columbia, rejected the city’s attempt to overhaul its criminal law, an attempt which would have reduced or eliminated mandatory minimums. Crime has increased in our nation’s capital, increased dramatically this year. The chart at the …
The Tragedy of the Commons, Part 3: Wicked Logic
The Tragedy of the Commons: Wicked Logic In The Tragedy of the Commons: Rational Actors, I discussed linear vs. spiral logic. I suggested that western logic tended to be more linear and Islamic and other cultures, perhaps more spiral. But that is a generalization based on today’s conditions. In the past, western logic tended …
State Supported Child Kidnapping
Star Chambers Coming for Your Children. Washington & Minnesota, have already legalized the kidnapping and mutilation of children without parental consent
Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXXXV; Whatever happened to John Cougar?
Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXXXV; Whatever happened to John Cougar? Albert Constantine Jr. blasts Joe Biden with “Cherry Bomb.”
Transurrection Part II
Part one of Montana’s Transurrection is the only accurate eyewitness account of what happened in the Montana legislature when radical leftists showed their willingness to act violently and disrupt the business of all Montanans on April 24th. In part one, I described what I witnessed outside the Capitol building and then in the House gallery. …
The Tragedy of the Commons: The Rational Actor
The Tragedy of the Commons: Rational Actor This is a follow on to Tragedy of the Commons: The Political Commons. It specifically looks at the rationality implied in Ostrom’s 8 points and the Rational Actor/Choice, Game, and Agency theories. What happens if the rational hypothesis fails or is different across cultures or relevant ranges? I …
Let’s take the low road: The GOP should make 2024 a referendum on Biden
The rollout – if one can call President Joe Biden’s pathetic, anemic reelection announcement video a rollout – showed that he plans to campaign on abortion rights and the extremism of MAGA Republicans. In his position, such a strategy makes sense. After all, these issues worked so well for Democrats in 2022 and given that …
Minarchy and the Right to Choose
Government goons , almost always look at “right to choose” to mean “You have the right to choose as long as we approve of your choices.”
A Male Lesbian’s Take–An Ongoing Domestic Cognitive War
The America I knew as a young man, was a country in which you could grow up to be anything you wished. My how that is now truer today, than ever before, but not in a good way. Today, no matter who you are, you can grow up to be literally “anything” you wish, given …
5 Former Presidents Have Run Again After Losing; Only 1 Succeeded
1945’s Brent Eastwood raised an interesting point in an article titled “The End of Donald Trump Has Arrived.” He noted that, of the five former U.S. presidents who have run for the presidency after having lost their previous bids for reelection, only one, Grover Cleveland, was successful. Eastwood wrote: But that is precisely what he …
It’s For The Kids!
Imagine a typical North Idaho family, Shawn and Jane Doe and their three children Mary, Mike and Becky. Shawn is the assistant manager at a local division of a national company. The Doe family is a comfortable, middle class family and happy, but money seems tight. Jane has been pestering Shawn to ask for a …
Biden on the debt ceiling hike: My way or the highway
It doesn’t take long for reality to catch up with people who spend their money recklessly. If the situation is not too far gone, it may be simply a question of cutting back temporarily on unnecessary purchases. However, if the overspending has persisted for a long period of time, an individual may be forced by …
Culture Commands Series Our Great U.S. Culture War Pt 2a
This is Part A of the second installment of a series on Our Great U.S. Culture War. From Cape Henry to President George Washington It is 182 years from Englishmen planting the Christian Cross on Cape Henry, Virginia to claim a covenant evangelizing this new world, this Virginia, to the first inauguration of President George …
Biden Will Be Running on His Record This Time
The Biden 2024 candidate has a disadvantage that the Biden 2020 candidate didn’t have – a record of executive leadership.
Is Ethical Journalism An Oxymoron?
Last week, in case you missed it, was “Ethics in Journalism Week,” sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. As a journalist and a member of the SPJ myself, I naturally visited the SPJ’s website to see how it was commemorating this occasion. As expected, the site was bursting with platitudes about journalism and journalists. …
AP Report: LGBTQ+ lawmakers find themselves ‘literally trying to exist’
Apparently, every day is a battle for LGBTQ+ lawmakers. According to an Associated Press report, they “find themselves fighting just ‘to exist.’” The article begins on an emotional note: State Sen. Shevrin Jones can often be seen at the Florida Capitol greeting staff and colleagues with a smile or laugh, but when he’s alone it’s …