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Relevance: 18% Posted on: February 26, 2020
Back in 2016, this commentary was perhaps the first howl in the political wilderness against the unfairness of the Democratic Party’s use of “superdelegates” — office holders and party officials who by party rules automatically serve as unelected but voting delegates at the national convention . . . which chooses…
Relevance: 18% Posted on: August 2, 2019
Yesterday I referenced “pigs flying” . . . and Icarus’s waxed-wing fail. Today, it’s just about the muck. Now, I am on the road and definitely not catching every word of the Democratic debates. But amidst much nonsense and embarrassment — and there was a lot of it, from what…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: April 13, 2020
Right after 9/11, much overkill was directed at the unsuspecting. Friends of the Dumb Joke Brigade told dumb jokes when everybody was On Edge. It soon became clear that tasteless jocularity had morphed into an actionable offense. And should anyone on September 12 have had the temerity to sit in…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: June 4, 2019
Why did term limits spring up in the 1990s? Term limitation has a long history in America, of course — and all the way back to Aristotle — but why the resurgence? I remember opponents suggesting that Americans were frustrated with slow economic growth. Not likely. In “Restoring Faith in…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: October 11, 2019
“I’ve already deleted my Blizzard account,” offered the young man while taking my Starbucks order. Blizzard Entertainment is a video game developer based in Irvine, California. Earlier this week, the company rescinded the Grandmasters tournament winnings of Hearthstone esports player Ng Wai Chung, whose professional name is “Blitzchung,” banning him…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: November 18, 2014
Justice is blind, or so it attempts to be. Sometimes justice is deaf and dumb, too. The people of Ferguson, Missouri, await — along with the rest of the nation — the imminent announcement from the local grand jury, either a decision to indict police officer Darren Wilson for the…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: March 31, 2015
Which is worse, paying for stuff you use . . . or being constantly harassed for using it? There is talk of drought, these days, in several states of our union. And governments, local and state, are becoming draconian. Further, the moralistic crowd is out, telling us to conserve water as if it…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: September 2, 2014
Listen to the experts. Challenge yourself to understand that looting isn’t bad, and shouldn’t be viewed as a violation of the rights of an innocent person or persons or a frontal assault on the essence of civilization itself. No, looting and rioting are important human expressions for change that should…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: February 10, 2015
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama gave cautious support for the anti-vaxxer cause a few years ago. While running for the presidency in 2008, Obama called the alleged link between autism and vaccination scientifically “inconclusive.” In the same year, Mrs. Clinton went further, expressing her support for an official study to…
Relevance: 16% Posted on: March 6, 2018
by Paul Jacob While the Supreme Court heard oral argument, last week, 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…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: February 26, 2014
New York State is deeply blue. That’s the color mapmakers use to show Democratic control. That’s also the state the state’s economy is in, depressed by those same Democrats’ policies. So, to lighten the mood, Governor Andrew Cuomo is splurging $140 million tax dollars for TV ads that sing the…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: January 21, 2019
The 3rd annual Woman’s March strolled by over the weekend — a tiny fraction of its former self. Two years ago, close to a million protesters converged on Washington, D.C., while this year’s event “appeared to attract only thousands,” The Washington Post reported, “mirroring lower turnout at marches . .…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: September 8, 2018
Paul Jacob In the fourth season of Showtime’s Weeds, drug smugglers use a tunnel connecting border towns in California and Mexico, with the American side of the tunnel opening up under a maternity shop. Yet when a drug-smuggling tunnel was found, last month, connecting a defunct Arizona KFC to a…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: December 8, 2015
Will the government soon quarter troops in your home? The Third Amendment prohibits that, sure — but if prominent and powerful Democrats are so anxious to toss out the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution, who’s to say they wouldn’t jettison the Third? Last year, every Democratic U.S. Senator…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: May 31, 2016
It’s been an unusual election year, and it’s far from over. This weekend, the Libertarian Party is holding its presidential nominating convention in Orlando, Florida, close to Disney World — or close to a Veterans Administration hospital . . . they’re so difficult to tell apart. Both have long lines.…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: April 4, 2013
Shall we use reason in debating and deciding our laws? Or better to employ only our emotion? According to much of Washington officialdom (and media) the answer is: emotion. “I want to make sure every American is listening today,” President Barack Obama said last week, reminding his audience of the…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: April 10, 2018
Paul Jacob The Washington Post headline is crystal clear: “Implicit racial bias causes black boys to be disciplined at school more than whites, federal report finds.” That sure sounds like a serious problem. Another problem? The headline isn’t quite accurate. The government-town newspaper is “informing” readers about a recent Government…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: September 27, 2012
In 42 days, there’s an election to determine who will wield executive power in the world’s most powerful nation. Ours. Lots of power is on the line. And with power comes fear. And with fear being such a powerful motivator, the polls will no doubt be crowded. Unfortunately, fear-based voting…
Relevance: 15% Posted on: May 2, 2018
Paul Jacob Amanda Gailey, Patricia Hill and Catherine Koebel are not just your average anti-gun nuts. They are college professors who are anti-gun nuts. Gailey and Hill teach at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln — Gailey an associate professor of English and Hill a research assistant professor of sociology. Catherine Koebel…
Relevance: 14% Posted on: April 17, 2018
Paul Jacob Tacoma Park, Maryland, became the first place in the U.S. to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in local elections. That was in 2013. Since then, two other Maryland towns have followed suit, while in Berkeley, California, the voting age was lowered to 16, if only for school…