Arizona State University is offering a course exploring the “problem” of whiteness. The controversial class, taught by a white professor (of course), explores race theory, post-colonialism, and a host of other pseudo-intellectual topics centered on white privilege: The public university is offering an English class to its students this semester called “Studies in American Literature/Culture: U.S. Race […]
Continue reading →What in the world? I know that civil government is famous for inefficiency, over-spending, corruption, larceny, and just plain stupid, but this beggars belief. After the feds fired CGI Federal for its very expensive and ultimately botched design of Healthcare.gov, the IRS awarded the same company a $4.5 million contract to create its Obamacare tax […]
Continue reading →Full disclosure: I watch football occasionally. Apparently everyone and his mother has an opinion on the latest pseudo-scandal to warrant the over-used “-gate” suffix: #deflategate. The New England Patriots apparently underinflated 11 of 12 game balls in their playoff victory against the Colts. Yesterday, I was in a restaurant talking at a very reasonable volume […]
Continue reading →Much has been made of the recent “economic recovery,” especially by Democrats touting the effectiveness of Obama’s policies, both here and abroad. But one pundit doesn’t see it that way, and his voice is vastly under-represented in this discussion: He [William White, the economic analyst who correctly predicted the Great Recession] deplores the rush to […]
Continue reading →I think it is hilarious that the people most adamantly opposed to the free market are often enormously benefitted by its machinery. Think Hollywood. Or Hillary Clinton. A story surfaced recently that her speaking fee at colleges is higher than Mitt Romney’s. Much higher, in fact: Mitt Romney will charge Mississippi State University $50,000 to […]
Continue reading →Michael Moore, the famous “documentarian,” posted a controversial tweet about snipers, apparently in response to Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, and then quickly explained his first comments in a subsequent Facebook post (what a social media maven): “Lots of talk about snipers this weekend (the holiday weekend of a great man, killed by a sniper), so […]
Continue reading →What better way to show your fight against global warming and carbon footprints than jet-setting in your own fossil fuel burning private jet? Or 1,700 of them: A squadron of 1,700 private jets are rumbling into Davos, Switzerland, this week to discuss global warming and other issues as the annual World Economic Forum gets underway. […]
Continue reading →The CDC is still encouraging people to get flu shots in spite of the fact that recent reports give them a dismal %23 effectiveness rating: The flu vaccine for 2014-2015 is not the worst ever — the past decade has ranged from 10 percent to 60 percent effective — but its record is worrying enough […]
Continue reading →Obama has made it clear that the net neutrality question could be settled without Congress. By executive order, you say? Nope. Even worse—by bureaucratic regulations: The White House on Thursday said legislation was not necessary to settle so-called net neutrality rules because the Federal Communications Commission had the authority to write them. Republicans in Congress […]
Continue reading →According to analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, local taxes hurt low-wage earners more than the upper class: States and localities have regressive systems because they tend to rely more on sales and excise taxes (fees tacked onto items like gas, liquor and cigarettes), which are the same rate for rich and […]
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