The Fact-free Left: Part II
The political left's great claim to authenticity and honor is that what they advocate is for the benefit of the less fortunate. But how could we test that? ...
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Documented Irresponsibility
People who entered the United States illegally may be called "undocumented" in politically correct circles, but what is all too well documented is the utter irresponsibility of both political...
The Fact-free Left
The outrage over another multiple murder of American military personnel on American soil by another Islamic extremist has been exacerbated by the fact that these military people had been...
Is the Civil War Over?
Professional race hustlers have no incentive to see our current civil war end. They see in this shooting only an opportunity to escalate their demands. ...
Does the “Legacy of Slavery” Cliche Explain Today’s Social Problems?
Discussions of racial problems almost invariably bring out the cliche of "a legacy of slavery." But anyone who is being serious, as distinguished from being political, would surely want...
Looking Back
>After my 85th birthday last week, I looked back over my life and was surprised to discover in how many different ways I had been lucky, in addition to...
Supreme Court Disasters
Many people are looking at the recent Supreme Court decisions about ObamaCare and same-sex marriage in terms of whether they think these are good or bad policies. That is...
Micro-totalitarianism
The concept of "micro-aggression" is just one of many tactics used to stifle differences of opinion by declaring some opinions to be "hate speech," instead of debating those differences...
Baltimore Is Now Paying the Price
Baltimore is now paying the price for irresponsible words and actions, not only by young thugs in the streets, but also by its mayor and the state prosecutor, both...
Graduation Gifts
Given the narrow range of left to far left views of the world on most college campuses, and the vast ignorance of other views, even among graduates of elite...
Obama’s Mastery of Rhetoric — and Disregard of Reality
In a recent panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University, President Barack Obama gave another demonstration of his mastery of rhetoric — and disregard of reality. One of the ways...
Race, Politics and Lies
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization — including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things...
Anti-Trust Law and Lawlessness
Some of us think laws should be clear-cut statements of what you can and cannot do. Indicting people under laws that can lead to fines in the billions of...
Chaos in the Primaries
Even if we cannot predict the outcomes of the primaries this far in advance, we can at least start trying to understand the candidates, the almost candidates and the...
The New Inquisition
Attempts to shut down people whose free speech interferes with other people's political agendas go on, with remarkably little notice, much less outrage. The Internal Revenue Service's targeting the...
Who Trashes Liberal Arts?
An op-ed piece titled "Conservatives, Please Stop Trashing the Liberal Arts" appeared last week in the Wall Street Journal. But it is not conservatives who trashed the liberal arts....
Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015)
It is not often that the leader of a small city-state — in this case, Singapore — gets an international reputation. But no one deserved it more than Lee...
Ruinous “Compassion” and Minimum Wage Laws
Some restaurants and grocery stores in Oakland's Chinatown have closed after the city's minimum wage was raised. Other small businesses there are not sure they are going to survive,...
Ferguson Reports: The “Disparate Impact” Racket
The U.S. Department of Justice issued two reports last week, both growing out of the Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown. Both are worth reading — but for different...
The Gender Gap Is not Nearly as Big as the Honesty Gap
There may be some poetic justice in the recent revelation that Hillary Clinton, who has made big noises about a "pay gap" between women and men, paid the women...