(My Eastern New Mexico News column for August 11, 2021)
As rational thinkers since at least the time of François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, have pointed out, it’s dangerous to be right when those with power are wrong. This is because it’s…
After Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos both went to space — depending on how you define “space” — within days of each other, in rockets built by their respective companies, outrage activists got upset. Were people angry when Henry Ford first rode in a Ford automobile, or when Alexander Graham Bell made his first phone call?
It’s odd how everything related to dislike, or even just a preference that doesn’t include something, has been relabeled as “fear”.
Even when we seem to disagree, we have more in common than you might think. I probably want many of the same things you want.
Why do so many people have blind spots where cops are concerned? Even otherwise liberty-loving people. I don’t get it at all.
If you know you’re going to have to be an outlaw all your life to get as close as possible to living in liberty, it removes a lot of the hesitation about breaking “laws“.
Why are legislative messes so quick to be made but so slow to be removed once in place? After they are shown to move society further from the goal used to justify them, they should be immediately reversed.
It seems many– if not most— people have hypotheses of How Things Work that depend on everyone being evil idiots… except when they have political power. In that case, they are necessary and society can’t function without them. Mmhmm. Sure.
(My Eastern New Mexico News column for June 30, 2021)
You are smart enough to know a hammer is the wrong tool for driving a screw. Yes, It can work in an emergency, but it isn’t best and can cause future problems. Either use a screwdriver for the scre…
Because I care about you, I want you to be armed at all times. Just in case. That’s the loving, civilized position to adopt with regard to my fellow human beings.