The Statist Call-for-Civility Con
When I hear today’s frequent calls for civility, I’m reminded of Rodney King’s plaintive appeal, “Can we…can we all get along?” After all, King was a thug but, when...
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Woman Faces Jail Time for Planting Vegetables on Own Property
Vegetable gardens may be popping on abandoned land in Detroit, Michigan, but nearby Oak Park apparently likes broccoli as much as does George H.W. Bush. At least, that is,...
Trashing the Constitution: The Living Document Con
Is constitutionalism akin to blind faith? Some statists certainly think so, as they have called the position “constitution-worship.” In light of this, what should we call those who lack that...
New York Plunges into Marriage Insanity
If it weren’t so tragic, there really would be something amusing about “progressivism.” New York just legalized the curiosity that many call by an oxymoronic euphemism but that I,...
College Islamization: Yale Closes Initiative for Study of Anti-Semitism
It was 60 years ago that William F. Buckley published God and Man at Yale, a book critical of the hostility toward religion prevalent at the Ivy League school....
U.S. Students Ignorant of History; Will Repeat Mistakes of Past
Once again, a study has show that American students are woefully ignorant of history. Test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress demonstrate, writes the Wall Street Journal,...
Russia: “Morally Corrupt to the Core”
When Nevada Senate contender Sharron Angle led incumbent Harry Reid by three points in polls but lost by six on Election Day 2010, it raised some eyebrows. Yet that...
Here Comes Peter Cottontail Hopping Down the Statist Trail: Feds Fine Missouri Farmer $90,000
The definition of “totalitarian” is: “of or pertaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life....
He May be a Dog, but Weiner Will be a Winner in 2012
New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s sexual impropriety sure does make titillating copy. I mean, take his zipper-like stature, the nature of his transgressions, and combine that with his name,...
Desexing Children: The Acceptable Abuse
“We've decided not to share Storm's sex for now — a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become...
This Is the Article That Will Never be Published
As you may know, the world will end today at 6 p.m. Or, that’s the prediction at least by 89-year-old California preacher Harold Camping. ...
Soviet Style, Facebook Plants Negative Stories about Google
Sometimes you just wish that both sides in a contest could lose. Such is the case with respect to the latest revelation about Facebook: that it hired a PR...
Barack Obama’s Seven-dollar-a-gallon Gas Ambitions
“Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” said Steven Chu — the man Barack Obama would ultimately tap to...
Up from Mexico Way: A Lawsuit Against U.S. Gun Manufacturers
In the early days it was Pancho Villa, then it was undocumented Democrats and drug runners, and now we have the latest incursion across our southern border: The Mexican...
Gandhi Reconsidered: When Paganism Met Progressivism
When an Indian-born man I knew a couple of decades ago expressed an intense dislike for Mohandas Gandhi, I found it a bit surprising. Wasn’t the “Great Soul,” that...