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Compliance Over Compassion
Mask and vax. Or else. That seems to be the sum total of government's policy set on managing COVID in our society. Excepting those benighted red states (and some blue ones, I'm glad to report), which any right-thinking-leftist knows is being run by idiots and...
A Quaint Little British Bribery Scandal
On reading about the British scandal involving Owen Paterson, Minister of Parliament (pictured), I yelled "Pikers!" Then I just wanted to pat them on the head, innocents as they are to political grifting: the British are undone with shame by behavior that is the coin...
You Don’t Get It Back
The latest inflation number was just announced. It's not pretty. Rather ugly, in fact. 6.8%, annualized, the biggest number in nearly 40 years. The Democrats, who are running the nation (into the ground, in the eyes of more and more based on plummeting poll numbers),...
OJ’s Legacy
Or... The Continuing Irrelevance Of The Individual Jussie Smollett was convicted yesterday of five felonies relating to his (can we omit the "alleged" now?) staging of a hate-crime attack upon himself. No one who took an honest look at the facts of the matter is...
When Everything Is Illegal…
One of the few things our divided America agrees on is that our criminal justice system is failing. That the explanation and solution would be polar opposites is a separate matter. Leftists point at the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting, Righties point at the Darrel Brooks...
In Defense of Trolling
Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and probable Presidential aspirant, recently signed a set of bills banning the mandating of COVID vaccines by schools and businesses. That he did so in the town of Brandon, population 100K and nearly a 5 hour drive from the state...
Some Lives Don’t Matter
Consider this reaction to the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal: 'if he were black, he'd be in jail.' Such a sentiment was voiced by many on the Left when they heard "not guilty on all counts." Let's look past the blind partisanship overriding the very obvious facts of the...
The Bail Quandary
About two and a half years ago, New York State, in a paroxysm of progressive beneficence, overhauled its cash bail system for those accused of crimes. For the past couple years, only those accused of violent felonies were required to post bail. The rest were simply...
Rittenhouse and the Racists
Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted on 5 counts of homicide yesterday. Good. He should never have been charged in the first place. An arms-length assessment of the facts, once the fog of biased and tendentious reporting got cleared, made that obvious. To all but the Left's...
To Petition The Government
There are many things the Government is empowered to do. There's a list of them in the Constitution. A couple centuries of revision, a hundred-year-plus Progressive movement, and a few egregious moments of Supreme Court malpractice have expanded the list far beyond...
Green Oil
This morning's Wall Street Journal 10-Point included this tidbit: Royal Dutch Shell plans to consolidate its dual-share structure and move its headquarters to London to help it navigate the transition to low-carbon energy. It should be obvious to anyone who applies...
21st Century Scalpers
The act of scalping (the cutting off of a part of a victim's scalp as a trophy, not the act of reselling event tickets at a large markup) has been part of human history for thousands of years, and only fell out of practice in the past century or two. It's a barbaric...
Identity Trumps Science
Ponder this bit, from an article about how identity politics has infiltrated archaeology: [T]he archaeologist Bruce Bourque recently published a lengthy essay on Quillette about his attempts to decipher the genetic identity of an ancient maritime New England tribe...
Responsibility To Protect
Much is being made of our "abandoning" Afghanistan (they abandoned us, when they did not "cowboy-up" to defend themselves, is how I see it). Well: Civilized world governments have a doctrine against assaults on human rights of the kind the Taliban make their mode:...
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