According to some social conservatives, the Republican Party is going libertarian. According to libertarians, the Republican Party is centrist. According to centrists, the Republican party is polarizing. What exactly is going on in the Republican Party? No one is giving a straight answer on that. After two failed candidates for the office of president, the […]
Continue reading →James Craig, the Detroit Police Chief, recently urged Detroit citizens to arm themselves (with guns) for self-defense against criminals. The comments have been criticized widely, especially in light of Ferguson, for exacerbating the racial divide in predominantly black Detroit: Indeed, if it is an anomaly for a police chief to go on record and speak […]
Continue reading →A candidate for the governor of New York, Randy Credico, was recently arrested, handcuffed, and jailed for taking footage of an overly aggressive arrest. This comes just days after the NYPD sent out a memo telling police officers that recording the police is legal. Recording the police may be legal, but it sure doesn’t feel […]
Continue reading →A watch group on world peace says there are only eleven countries in the world that aren’t involved in some internal or external armed conflict. In other words, world peace is quite far off. Are we doomed to this cycle until we eventually blow all of humanity back to Barney Rubble? World War I was […]
Continue reading →The shooting death of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has set off a firestorm of riots and protests. And the situation in Ferguson has only escalated since. Police have responded with draconian militarized force, and protestors have responded with increasing violence and disruption—for example, looting and burning down a local Quik Trip. And what are […]
Continue reading →Racism has become a political tool. Race-baiting is in fact the major method leftists use to get “the black vote,” but it is also one of the major means by which so-called conservatives motivate their mostly white base. It’s us versus them. But one rarely mentioned consequence of the politicization of racism is that it […]
Continue reading →There’s been an unexpected twist to the legalized marijuana story. It appears that the initial statistics coming out of Colorado indicate that, contrary to the dire predictions of those against legal pot, fatal crashes are actually down since Colorado legalized marijuana. Another reason to doubt the premise that more pot smoking means more deadly crashes: Total […]
Continue reading →The headline sounds sensational. And many news sources are milking it for all its worth. A recent change in law in Indiana allows citizens to resist anyone who forcibly enters their house if there is a reasonable suspicion that they intend harm to the occupants. That includes lethal force if that is all that will […]
Continue reading →In a world where partisan politics is the norm, there is one casualty that’s often overlooked: the casualty of credibility. We tend to believe the interpretation of the facts from those partisan “experts” who agree with our values. This means that our views on the facts are not actually reasonable most of the time. The […]
Continue reading →I remember the first time I was exposed to Robin Williams. I was nine, and I was seeing Aladdin in the theater with my parents and five sisters. Robin Williams voiced the Genie, and he was brilliant. In fact, the movie was apparently turned down for Best Adapted Screenplay because Robin Williams had improvised the […]
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