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Relevance: 23% Posted on: August 6, 2016
“Sargon of Akkad,” a videoblogger on YouTube who is most famous for his weekly series “This Week in Stupid,” makes an eloquent and commonsense case for the traditional meaning of “equality of opportunity,” against a Vox.com egalitarian who thinks the idea is unworkable (and who prefers straight equality of outcomes):…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: April 5, 2017
Yesterday, on the 49th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination,* voters in Ferguson, Missouri, passed a charter amendment requiring police to wear body cameras while on duty. The measure also provides the public access to that footage, along with reasonable rules about privacy. In August 2014, Ferguson came to the…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: June 3, 2009
Here’s an idea about how to help businesses survive in this troubled economic climate: Stop allowing an unaccountable regulatory board — unclad by even a fig leaf of constitutionality — to ride roughshod over public companies. In the wake of the Enron scam and other financial scandals several years ago,…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: October 12, 2022
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas, thinking he had reached “the Indies.” Exactly two hundred years later, a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips ended the Salem Witch Trials. On this date in 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by students in many U.S.…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: August 16, 2017
Close but no cakewalk prize. Modern social justice advocates sometimes come up with legitimate complaints . . . only to wander off terra firma and into cloud-cuckoo land. “Microaggressions” is one of these airy wanderings, and Katherine Timpf has spotted another in the ever-growing catalog of social justice beefs: The…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: October 12, 2023
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas, thinking he had reached “the Indies.” Exactly two hundred years later, a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips ended the Salem Witch Trials. On this date in 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by students in many U.S.…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: October 25, 2021
Remember the blow-up last summer between Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Dr. Anthony Fauci over gain-of-function research? Paul charged that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had supported such research in China. “Senator Paul,” Fauci fired back, “you don’t know what you are talking about, quite frankly.” “Dr. Anthony Fauci…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: March 31, 2021
“Given China’s coverup of the outbreak in Wuhan, the WHO’s early praise for the country’s response and the fact that it took a full year to get a joint Chinese-international team on the ground for a brief visit,” explained The Washington Post, “the critical but challenging search for clues faced…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: October 12, 2020
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas, thinking he had reached India. Exactly two hundred years later, a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips ended the Salem Witch Trials. On this date in 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by students in many U.S. public…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: October 12, 2021
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas, thinking he had reached India. Exactly two hundred years later, a letter from Massachusetts Governor William Phips ended the Salem Witch Trials. On this date in 1892, the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited by students in many U.S. public…