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Friday, July 27, 2018
Sorry If You’re Offended, but Socialism Leads to Misery and Destitution
Today’s socialists get their yucks by pretending collectivist policies only lead to innocuous outcomes like local libraries.
Hollywood Hypocrisy on Guns
In the long, hot summer of television, gun control hasn’t been a big issue in the news media, which is not acceptable to its rabid cousins in the world of entertainment. For them, guns are the root of all evil, so let the story be told!
Will the Trend of Low Birth Rates Be Reversed?
Sometimes a society’s values change sharply with almost no one noticing, much less anticipating the consequences.
The Road to Hell Is Paved With...Straws?
In parts of California now, a person can go into a public park, shoot up heroin, throw the used syringe on the sidewalk, walk into the street and then poop in the highway — all without consequence. But the moment that person pulls out a plastic straw and places it into a cup of God knows what, he could go to jail.
Seeing Trump’s Forest
Writing in the The Weekly Standard, Andy Smarick warns fellow President Trump critics against falling into the seductive trap of weighing Trump’s actions piecemeal and missing the cumulative effect of his assault on dignity, if I may paraphrase.
Can Feminists Cure What Ails Men?
“Boys need feminists’ help too,” declares Feministing.com founder Jessica Valenti. Writing in The New York Times, Valenti worries that while women “protest, run for office, and embrace the movement for gender equality in record numbers, a generation of mostly white men are being radicalized into believing that their problems stem from women’s progress.”
Trump Is Using Tariffs to Advance a Radical Free-Trade Agenda
Give President Trump credit. When he chastised NATO allies over their failure to spend adequately on our common defense, his critics said he was endangering the Atlantic alliance. Instead, his tough stance persuaded allies to spend billions more on defense, strengthening NATO instead.
Having a Personal Following the New Key to Political Success
I have a theory. When people lose faith in institutions (political parties, organized religion, etc.) they don’t become cynics or nihilists, they simply transfer their faith to people. Specifically, two kinds of people: themselves and charismatic celebrities.
The Power of Low Expectations
It’s a symptom of our time that a tape of the future president of the United States discussing machinations related to an alleged affair with a former Playboy Playmate isn’t truly a blockbuster.
Thursday, July 26, 2018
The Life (and Death) of American Farmers
Recent reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that suicide rates among American farmers are higher than any other occupational group, and five times higher than that of the population as a whole.
‘Moral Clarity Becomes a Casualty of the Need to Placate Tyrants’
The definition of insanity, as they say, is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. And yet critics insist that the United States shouldn’t have withdrawn from the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Justice Department Weighs in to Protect Free Speech on Campus
In the face of Orwellian speech codes on campus — and with the help of advocacy groups like Speech First Inc. — college students have been fighting to defend their First Amendment right to free speech.
Back to the Future by Connecting With the Past
In the 1985 classic American science fiction film “Back to the Future,” Marty McFly travels back in time in a DeLorean time machine, and with the help of its inventor, the eccentric scientist “Doc,” history gets repaired so that when McFly returns to the present he finds healthy relations restored, providing optimism for the future and a happy ending. As a film genre, science fiction is unique in presenting an alternate reality that sometimes reveals startling insight into solutions for the human dilemma.
If You Support Defunding Planned Parenthood, Do This Now
If you are disgusted with your personal financing of abortion, it’s time to make your voice heard and help stop the madness.
The Left Finds Religion
Here’s a marker of just how polarized the confirmation process has become: Chuck Schumer is pressuring Senate Democrats to refuse meetings with Judge Kavanaugh. How’s that for civility?
A Voice for Freedom From an Unexpected Place
For some people at the State Department’s ministerial, the stories of persecution come secondhand — but they’re no less life-changing.
Trump Skeptical About ‘Official Government Findings’? Who Isn’t?
President Donald Trump, in Helsinki, expressed skepticism about the intelligence community’s finding that Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election. Within 24 hours, the President walked back his skepticism and said he trusts the intel community and believes their finding that Russia interfered with the 2016 election.
The Seduction of Socialism
For the current generation, sometimes referred to as millennials, it appears one thing is more seductive than sex — and that’s socialism.
Protectionism Proves That Evidence Is Unpersuasive
If you are not collateral damage in the escalating trade wars, the bulletins from the wars’ multiplying fronts are hilarious reading. You are collateral damage only if you are a manufacturer, farmer or consumer, so relax and enjoy the following reports.
Central Park Rapists: Trump Was Right
The city of New York released thousands of documents from the 1989 Central Park rape case last week, provoking more weeping and gnashing of teeth over Donald Trump’s full-page ads in four New York newspapers taken out soon after that attack with the headline: