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Relevance: 28% Posted on: October 29, 2014
A few weeks ago, The Washingtonian published a best of/worst of list about Congress. It stands out amongst other “tops” lists because the voting is done by White House staffers. This is what the employees think about their prima donnas. I mean bosses. The most interesting winner appeared near the…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: September 4, 2012
“Social scientists have long tried to determine why some children grow up to be successful adults and others don’t,” fatherhood blogger Kevin Hartnett wrote in the Washington Post. “The causes are hard to untangle.” Really? I think the causes are pretty obvious. Number one being parents. Hartnett’s opinion piece was…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: March 3, 2024
Yes, the “law-made instrumentality lumbers on under all varieties of circumstances at its habitual rate,” with minimal adaptability to new conditions. “By its very nature it is fitted only for average requirements, and inevitably fails under unusual requirements.” Herbert Spencer had it right over a century ago. The latest example?…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: August 30, 2012
by Paul Jacob As we await the Republican and Democratic conventions and the subsequent autumn campaign about the future of the country, it’s a good time to reflect on where we are now. So, where are we? One simple but telling measure of a free country is whether a child…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: October 29, 2021
The In-N-Out Burger restaurant won’t kick out customers who fail to display a “vaccine passport” proving they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19. In-N-Out has restaurants in California and the Southwest. And it has one in San Francisco, where Mayor London Breed has ordered restaurants to enforce the city’s vaccine mandate. Arnie…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: August 5, 2015
A sign of these sorry times for professional journalism: Time magazine runs a dishonest smear against Charles Koch, completely twisting the billionaire’s remarks at a recent meeting of major donors in Orange County, California. “Charles Koch Says US Can Bomb Its Way to $100,000 Salaries,” screamed the headline. The sub-heading…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: February 21, 2012
Venture capitalist Eric X. Li, in an op-ed for the New York Times, “Why China’s Political Model Is Superior,” credits the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre with producing the “stability” that “ushered in a generation of growth and prosperity.” As for America, Li explains that our problem is an “expanded” political…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: June 10, 2017
An outpouring of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to a pending recommendation by the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission caused the commission to table that proposed recommendation concerning citizen-initiated ballot measures — in what may be the last meeting of the commission. The recommendation would have created numerous double standards between constitutional amendments…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: August 26, 2012
This week, over at Townhall, a state-of-our-freedoms address . . . before the conventions, before the elections. Wander over to Townhall.com, then make a beeline back here to check the sources: How “richly subsidized”? See "On our nickel," from 2004 Do union bosses threaten politicians? Yes. A “well-documented” war: See…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: April 9, 2014
Brendan Eich resigned last week as CEO of Mozilla under pressure from gay rights activists upset because six years ago Eich had given a thousand bucks to California’s anti-gay marriage initiative, Prop 8. On Fox News’s Special Report, George Will dubbed the story “redundant evidence that progressives are for diversity…