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Relevance: 17% Posted on: August 12, 2015
Two wrongs don’t make a right. It’s simple but true. And, as a corollary, let me add that using the power of the federal government to harass individuals or groups one happens to dislike or disagree with is wrong. You might recall that our Declaration of Independence rebuked King George…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: March 6, 2012
“I have signed this bill,” President Barack Obama said months ago about the National Defense Authorization Act, “despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.” Those provisions include the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without trial. Former President George W. Bush…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: August 28, 2012
I don’t personally know Lance Armstrong, the cyclist who won the Tour de France seven times, including after beating cancer. I don’t know if Armstrong tricked folks for all those years he was competing, finding some ingenious way to pass more than 500 drug tests even while doping, as witnesses…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: April 25, 2022
“There exist many sneaky ways to get other people to do what you want, voluntarily — effectively blurring the line between legitimate persuasion and fraud.” I wrote that in a Common Sense squib entitled “The Online Manipulation of Democracy,” in which I discussed the work of Robert Epstein, a senior…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: November 20, 2020
I’m not the biggest fan of Democrat comedian-pundit Bill Maher. But when he’s right, he’s right. Mr. Maher once said the sun rises in the east. I concur. He also says that Democrats shouldn’t be so off-puttingly wackadoodle and tyrannical. Correct. According to Maher, “Democrats are the party of every…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: July 4, 2018
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to advance from that subordination in which they have hitherto remained, & to assume among the powers of the earth the equal & independant station to which the laws of nature & of nature’s god entitle them,…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: July 6, 2020
Social justice activists and Washington D.C. city officials have collaborated to paint the slogan “Black Lives Matter” on 16th Street near the White House. The city has also allowed the words “Defund the Police” to be painted on the street. Does this mean that the roadways of our nation’s capital…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: August 26, 2015
“One thing that we’ve done,” Dennis McBride of Support our Schools-Wauwatosa told a crowd at a free event hosted by the non-profit Wisconsin Public Education Network, “is we’ve made sure every time one of our legislators pops up his or her head above the foxhole, we’re there to shoot at…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: June 13, 2016
It’s commonly said that government is here to protect us. Well, that’s one theory. In the wake of the horrible massacre at the Pulse in Orlando, Florida, I’ve been hearing a lot of murmuring. People are wondering why a man who had been interviewed by the FBI several times in…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: April 4, 2012
When you hear the word “unprecedented,” reach for your . . . dictionary. As I’ve noted before, the word no longer sports its traditional meaning. On Monday, President Barack Obama commented on the possibility that the Supreme Court would strike down the 111th Congress’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act…