Intellectuals and Race
After reading Dr. Thomas Sowell's latest book, Intellectuals and Race, one cannot emerge with much respect for the reasoning powers of intellectuals, particularly...
Opinion
Bill Kristol and His “Code Brown Shirt” Conservatism
The Weekly Standard's neoconservative William Kristol has outdone himself with his recent verbal attack on fellow Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. ...
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Senator Rob Portman’s Homosexual Descent
In another case in the annals of conservative "adaptation" to yesterday's liberal innovation, Ohio Republican senator Rob Portman has just announced that he...
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The Dow Jones Is Lying
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is at a record high, and the unemployment rate has ticked down to 7.7 percent, but this...
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Rand Paul’s Inspiring Stand
“For the first time since the election, I actually have some hope.” That’s what one longtime conservative said to me after Senator Rand...
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Amateur Philosopher Syndrome (APS) and Abortion: Richard Dawkins’ Tweet
Richard Dawkins tweeted that “any fetus is less human than an adult pig," poorly playing the roles of philosopher and scientist. ...
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Gifted Hands
A remarkable book titled Gifted Hands tells the personal story of Benjamin Carson, a black kid from the Detroit ghetto who went on...
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The Logic of Marriage
Whatever we decide to call same sex-unions, marriage always has been and always will be an inherently heterosexual concept. ...
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Squirrelly Robot and Closed Control Towers
Right when America’s school kids are looking forward to a spring tour of the White House, the Obama administration cancelled all public tours,...
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Intellectuals and Race: Part IV
Multiculturalism, like the caste system, paints people into the corner where they happened to have been born. But at least the caste system...
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The Future of Bloomberg’s America
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg suffered an embarrassing defeat this week when a judge ruled that his now infamous “soda ban” failed...
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Intellectuals and Race: Part III
Both the intellectuals' theory of genetic determinism as the reason for group differences in outcomes and their opposite theory of discrimination as the...
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Pope Francis and the Injustice of Social Justice
The fact that the new Catholic Pope undoubtedly chose as his namesake St. Francis of Assisi, who gave his life to the poor,...
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Intellectuals and Race: Part II
Once we recognize that large differences in achievement among races, nations and civilizations have been the rule, not the exception, throughout recorded history,...
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John McCain, Lindsey Graham, War, and Liberty
John McCain's and Lindsey Graham's response to Rand Paul's filibuster is at least as significant as Paul's filibuster itself. ...
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