It's that time of year again! The time when the planet Earth is at that one particular spot in its orbit around the sun where a lot of us like to pause, reflect on our lives and the world we...
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Trump v. Bump: A Potentially Deadly Holiday Decision
If ATF wants those bump stocks, it’s going to have to start knocking on doors and forcibly taking them from hundreds of thousands of gun owners who have declined to voluntarily surrender them. What could possibly go wrong?
Continue ReadingInsidious Deceptions
The accusation of "insidious deceptions" is based on a premise that the media was ever a source of valid information. None of my favorite reporters make any claim to factualness. Mark Twain once reported on his own drowning because it...
Continue ReadingLooking to The State for Justice
In the real world, where the government pours billions of dollars into supporting vast legions of armed border agents, one must choose: shall I back the state or shall I back Pedro and Maria as they attempt to cross the...
Continue ReadingTrump’s Foreign Policy War on Americans
Forgive me for repeating myself: Trump is a caricature of a conventional American politician — which is why the political establishment despises him so. He lacks the diplomatic costume that makes brutality acceptable or at least enables people to live...
Continue ReadingNo One Owns a Culture
One may have preferences about culture. One may have affections for or aversions to a culture or particular elements of a culture. But such preferences do not entail any rights of ownership.
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