It seems fitting the day after the Super Bowl to talk a little bit about what the NFL actually costs us. Not for the people who buy jerseys, tickets, TV packages, and beer coozies. I’m talking about for that guy who doesn’t watch the NFL, thinks a bootleg is a vestige of Prohibition, and blushes […]
Continue reading →Leave it to Canada to figure out the obvious: the reason why heroin addicts are experiencing withdrawals is because they don’t have heroin. Duh. And Canada has found a solution for these heroin withdrawals. It’s called heroin: Doctors in Canada will become the first medics in North America to prescribe heroin to addicts next week. […]
Continue reading →Wow. Richard Dawkins has had a way recently of expressing his evolutionary ethics in pretty much the most tactless way possible. A few weeks ago, he was in hot water for his defense of “mild” pedophilia. Now, he’s in the hot seat again for saying it was immoral not to abort an unborn baby with […]
Continue reading →A recent study from the CDC concludes that Americans today are living longer than ever before: Americans are living longer than ever before, according to a new government report filled mostly with good news. U.S. life expectancy inched up again and death rates fell. Rates also fell for most of the leading causes of death […]
Continue reading →If you drink two glasses of wine at night, you may have mild alcoholism. But don’t be alarmed because the NHS in the UK is here to help you. By giving you drugs. A new drug called nalmefene is scheduled to be prescribed to unsuspecting Britons to help reduce the health consequences of mild alcoholism: […]
Continue reading →When I appropriate a label for myself, I generally attempt to know what it means first. Not so, with most Millennials. According to a recent poll, almost half of Millennials claim to be socialist, but very few of them can give an accurate description of just what being a socialist means: Forty-two percent say they […]
Continue reading →Aretha Franklin showed up to sing at a White House hosted dinner titled “Women of Soul,” and while Obama was introducing her, he said: When Aretha first told us what R-S-P-E-C-T meant to her, she had no idea it would become a rallying cry for African-Americans, and women, and then everyone who felt marginalized because […]
Continue reading →Republican Senator Tom Coburn, whose primary profession is as a doctor, has crunched some numbers (He’s pretty good at crunching numbers—you might have read his highly illuminating “Government Wastebook”) and given us an estimate of the bloat escalation of existing government health programs. Forget Obamacare. Even when all we had was Medicaid, we were already […]
Continue reading →If you have ever been in a debate about socialism, you are bound to hear an argument somewhere along these lines: “Socialism works in Norway. So socialism can work here.” I’m sick of hearing it for a number of reasons. Most of the American leftists who make the “look-at-Norway-see-socialism-works” argument have major problems with the […]
Continue reading →It’s very important for young people to learn about real life as soon as possible. Back in the day, that meant learning how to work hard, how to succeed, how to manage finances… you know—how to become an entrepreneur, a business owner, an inventor, or the like. These days, teaching children about the real world […]
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