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Relevance: 28% Posted on: May 27, 2016
“Feminism is cancer.” Milo Yiannopoulis is provocative. Apparently of violence as well as of thought. Until very recently, best known for his Twitter presence (@nero) and his work at Breitbart, Mr. Yiannopoulis, a gay British man in his mid-30s, has undertaken what he calls his “Dangerous Faggot Tour,” — speaking…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: July 19, 2021
Around the country, one of the worst predations against people who save money or own property is civil asset forfeiture. This is the grabbing of the cash and other belongings of innocent people on the basis of a mere suspicion (or feigned suspicion) of wrongdoing. By government. No evidence is…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: July 29, 2008
Fear stinks. Literally, yes; but figuratively, too. Moved by fear, we tend to get a bit irrational. Whenever something unpleasant happens to us all, there's this tendency for mass irrationality. I bring this up just as much to remind myself as to remind you. We're all affected. Even something as…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: August 13, 2018
Is it okay to steal if you can get away with it? A full answer would require a treatise. But most of us common-sensibly understand that evil does not magically become good when perpetrators are not stopped or punished. Thrasymachus was wrong to contend, in Plato’s Republic, that justice is…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: August 10, 2016
Crime is not nearly the problem that injustice is. Rebellion (lawlessness) is a symptom of the . . . legal contradictions that are now constantly confronting the average citizen. Tonie Nathan, “Individualism, Rebellion, and Crime,” Eugene Register-Guard, February 1977, in On Libertarianism: Historical Notes & Articles (1981).
Relevance: 28% Posted on: April 12, 2014
Campaign finance regulation is in the news. Today's video of former FEC Commissioner Brad Smith speaking to a Cato Institute audience about the impact of the Citizens United and Speech Now decisions is not news (a year old), but it is an important message, too seldom heard. http://youtu.be/4ihHTrvPBAs Smith argues…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: March 1, 2018
While the Supreme Court heard oral argument, Monday, in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the court of public opinion focused not so much on the constitutionality of the law in question, i.e. justice, but instead on the partisan impact of the decision, i.e. politics.…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: March 21, 2022
“Stand down and let your better half do the job,” was the specific advice syndicated-columnist Kathleen Parker recently offered a woman, explaining that this woman’s “biggest mistake is that she thinks she’s important.” Adding for emphasis: “She is not.” Parker is not writing about Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, or Dr.…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: March 26, 2014
In the better-late-than-never department, the Internal Revenue Service has granted tax-exempt status to Friends of Abe. Variety magazine calls the group “Hollywood’s largest fellowship of conservative and right-of-center independents” in an industry known for tilting 320 degrees or so to the left. The status comes three years after the Friends…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: July 10, 2021
Socialism cannot be ruled for very long except by terror. As soon as the terror is relaxed, resentment and hostility logically begin to well up against the rulers. The stage is thus set for a revolution or civil war. In fact, in the absence of terror, or, more correctly, a…