Some Lives Don’t Matter

Some Lives Don’t Matter

by | Nov 24, 2021 | Uncategorized

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...
The Bail Quandary

The Bail Quandary

by | Nov 23, 2021 | Uncategorized

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

Rittenhouse and the Racists

by | Nov 20, 2021 | Uncategorized

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...
To Petition The Government

To Petition The Government

by | Nov 18, 2021 | Uncategorized

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...
Green Oil

Green Oil

by | Nov 15, 2021 | Uncategorized

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...
Identity Trumps Science

Identity Trumps Science

by | Nov 14, 2021 | Uncategorized

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...