Politics

Remolding Culture One “Classic” at a Time

Posted by on April 22, 2018 at 8:21 pm

“The exercise seems aimed primarily at avoiding contact with antiquated beliefs, racist language, and sexist assumptions.”  — Thomas D. Williams, PhD I confess, I’m not really a “classic lit” sort of guy. Although, I have read a few of the usual entries in whole (e.g., The Holy Bible, The Hobbit, Mere Christianity) or in part […]

Do the Rich Pay Their “Fair Share” of Taxes?

Posted by on April 15, 2018 at 7:24 pm

We hear a lot of talk (mostly from the political Left) about this “fair share” idea. My question has always been, “Who decides what is ‘fair’, and how do they come up with that?” To me, “fair” would be roughly equivalent to “proportional to income”, which is what everyone should pay (with exceptions for the […]

Trump Replaces McMaster with Bolton

Posted by on March 25, 2018 at 6:46 pm

“I am pleased to announce that, effective 4/9/18, @AmbJohnBolton will be my new National Security Advisor. I am very thankful for the service of General H.R. McMaster who has done an outstanding job & will always remain my friend….”  — Presidential tweet, 3/22/2018 So, McMaster is out and Bolton is in. Hmmm… First, a couple […]

Bot Wars

Posted by on March 18, 2018 at 6:37 pm

“China’s cyber-spies have been hacking countries left and right. They were blamed for the enormous data breach at the US Office of Personnel Management that compromised the data of more than 21 million people.”  — Samuel Bocetta, CFIF We’ve all heard of “cyberwarfare”. It gets mentioned in the news along with “cybersecurity” and various attempts […]

Problems with Banning Bump Stocks

Posted by on March 4, 2018 at 7:06 pm

“By the way, bump stocks — we’re writing that out. I’m writing that out myself. I don’t care if Congress does it or not. I’m writing it out myself, okay? You put it into the machine-gun category, which is what it is. It becomes, essentially, a machine gun. And nobody’s gonna be able — it’s […]

Some Inconvenient Facts on Guns and Homicides in the U.S.

Posted by on February 25, 2018 at 11:29 pm

Following the Parkland school shooting, the issues of who’s to blame and “what kind of gun control can we pass now?” have been at the top of Current Events news here in the States for several days. It’s the usual stuff — lots of calls for banning guns, reinforced by slogans and “information” by activists […]

Trump’s Gas Tax Hike Is a Bad Idea

Posted by on February 18, 2018 at 8:20 pm

“I’d hate to see a new tax siphon off 20 percent of the $1,000 tax reform bonuses back to the swamp this year.”  — Adam Brandon, President of FreedomWorks If we needed another reminder that President Trump is, shall we say, inconsistent in his newly-adopted conservatism, we got tariffs imposed on solar panels and washing […]

Feminist Nonsense Attacks on God and the Bible

Posted by on February 12, 2018 at 12:03 am

“[S]tupid. Asinine. Ridiculous. Ludicrous. Imbecilic. Witless. Obtuse. Fatuous. Harebrained. Doltish. Preposterous.”  — Ben Shapiro, commenting on Rabbi Kolton’s claims Originally, I was going to blog on something more politically-oriented this week, like infamous memos & dossiers, or maybe the budget deal. But, I came across something else that piqued my interest much more, so… The […]

Difference Between Samson and a Suicide Bomber

Posted by on February 4, 2018 at 10:39 pm

“He pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the leaders and all the people in it. And the dead he killed at his death were more than those he had killed in his life.”  — Judges 16:30b (HCSB) It wasn’t all that long ago — certainly within my lifetime — that instances […]

Reassessing Trump’s Progress in Health Reform

Posted by on January 28, 2018 at 7:41 pm

Most of us — well, those of us on the political Right, anyway — are frustrated with the fact that Obamacare (ACA) has not been completely done away with. When the Senate failed to pass the American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA), which would have been at least a partial repeal, the President received […]