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Relevance: 23% Posted on: March 5, 2014
Oh, how the other half lives! And lies. By “the other half,” I don’t mean “the wealthy.” They’re as honest and decent as any other group. No, I’m talking about those with their hands on the levers of government power . . . along with their subsidy-seeking cronies. Kevin Johnson,…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: October 18, 2023
The latest plan from one of the world’s most annoying billionaires is to cut down trees and bury them. It’s part of the “thinning” controversy. The subject? Forest management. In the old days, human beings cleared forests or kept forests and harvested from them (for firewood, fungi, and fauna) on…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: March 16, 2018
I love a good protest. My first was in Mrs. Grubb’s third grade class, after a substitute teacher gave us a ton of math homework. During recess we organized and delivered a written statement announcing a student strike against doing the math. Believe it or not, the assignment was withdrawn,…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: December 3, 2015
When some of America’s most illustrious public figures — Senator Bernie Sanders, President Barack Obama, and Bill Nye the Science Guy — proclaim global climate change as the “obvious” cause of the rise of ISIS (and recent rounds of terrorism), it’s time to consider: Is it climate change that is…
Relevance: 23% 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: 23% Posted on: December 17, 2021
If you live in Maine, you may now grow your own food. The right to do so has been safeguarded in the state constitution. If you have the right to life and to sustain your life, surely you have a right to farm. As we all know, though, governments regularly…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: November 29, 2015
This week, Common Sense looks at the insanity of “cultural appropriation.” Which has reached a new low point of crazed nincompoopery in Ontario. See Sunday’s column on Townhall.com, by Yours Truly, Paul Jacob. Then come back here for further forays into the realm of modern progressive ideology gone completely off…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: March 11, 2016
One lesson from the classic film, It’s a Wonderful Life, is that “Every man’s life touches so many others.” Every woman’s life does, too. On Monday, I was stunned and saddened to read in my morning paper that Cornell University President Elizabeth “Beth” Garrett had died, barely a month after…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: September 8, 2020
A recent email from Amy White of MoveOn.org — an activist outfit that got its start defending Bill Clinton’s sexual indiscretions — theorized that, this election, “the GOP strategy to win is to use their billionaire donors to flood battleground states with fearmongering, racist ads. . . .” The snuck-in assumption that Democrats…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: December 5, 2023
In July, a King Soopers employee, Santino Burrola, was fired for filming shoplifters. He even managed to get their license plate number; to do so, he had to peel off an aluminum-foil cover on the plate as the thieves began driving away. Burrola helped police quickly capture one of the…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: April 2, 2024
The only substantial challenger to the two parties, this presidential campaign season, has been Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The son of a presidential primary frontrunner in 1968, and nephew of the 35th President of the United States — both assassinated — has been an environmental litigator and vaccine skeptic for…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: March 14, 2016
What can we make of the leftist hatred of the Koch brothers, David and his elder brother Charles? For their support of libertarian and Tea Party causes, and a few Republican candidates, the left doesn’t just demonize them, the left singles them out. I suppose a reasonable person could blanch…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: March 6, 2017
What is the percentage of tenured faculty on American campuses who are still unambiguously on the side of free intellectual exchange? What is the percentage of them who are willing to express that position openly? Sociologist Charles Murray asked those questions near the end of his reflections on Thursday’s Middlebury…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: August 8, 2017
“I think that the most effective way one could possibly move toward greater freedom in the United States, toward a smaller role of government, would be if we could only have a more democratic society.” Who said that? A Democrat? No. The speaker quickly added, “I don’t mean a capital-D,…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: October 4, 2019
“Look,” tweeted Sen. Kamala Harris, “let’s be honest. . . .” When a politician talks about being honest — presumably “for a change” — it’s gonna be a doozy. President Trump’s “Twitter account should be suspended.” “What?” the reader will likely object, “Trump’s Twitter account is the second-best thing about…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: July 17, 2020
An Oregon case, People Not Politicians v. Secretary of State Clarno, was decided last week in favor of People Not Politicians, a group that has struggled obtaining signatures to qualify Initiative Petition 57 (IP 57) for the November 2020 ballot — while observing the governor’s stay-at-home orders. It is hard to…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: October 30, 2017
It seems exceedingly plausible that the longer one serves as a legislator, the better legislator one would become. Yet voters back home have noticed something: the longer in office, the less representative their so-called representative tends to become. No wonder that in those states where Americans have been permitted to…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: November 29, 2017
My idea of a “free market” is not our politicians’. Their idea is to give away free stuff to their new and old business buddies . . . at everyone else’s expense. That sort of “crony capitalism” has been writ large per Amazon’s search for a location for a second…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: May 10, 2017
“You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” Is Afghanistan becoming the Hotel California? Back in 2014, Obama declared victory — well, he called it “over.” We even informed our enemies ahead of time that we were leaving, to show good manners. But as wars…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: January 22, 2024
The Canadian psychologist fighting for the right to opine without having to submit to “social media training” — reeducation — has lost a court battle. An Ontario court has dismissed Jordan Peterson’s appeal of a decision that had ruled in favor of the autocratic College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO).…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: March 15, 2023
I don’t gawk at car crashes. I did not watch the ISIS beheadings. Bloody slasher movies aren’t my thing. And neither was the recent hearing held by the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. It was so hard to watch I could hardly take more than a…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: November 8, 2022
The Bill of Rights was originally understood as curbing the power only of the federal government. This began to change with the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits states from depriving persons “of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Thanks to the “incorporation doctrine” interpretation of this amendment, provisions…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: March 2, 2014
The Sacramento stadium subsidy scandal, touched upon on Thursday, should be a bigger story in the news and with the commentariat. So click on over to Townhall, and share. Then come back here for some more reading: Sacramento Bee: Judge tosses out STOP arena lawsuit Merced Sun-Star: Why agribusinessman is…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: October 27, 2022
How to tell if you are part of the favored ruling class? If it is easy for you, but not most others, to obtain a concealed carry permit in your gun-controlling state. It’s extremely difficult to carry firearms for protection in states like Illinois, California, New Jersey and New York…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: December 28, 2011
Promises, promises. Politicians love to make ’em. But who has to fulfill those promises, and how? The tendency to rely upon political assurances without establishing workable, reasonable plans and follow-through has to be high on the irresponsibility list. Our politicians may promise us the stars, but what we wind up…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: December 19, 2022
With Twitter in the news, and revelation after revelation coming out about how governments and politicians used the social media giant to skew public opinion with algorithmic fiddling and outright bans, let’s not forget Facebook. Adam Schiff hasn’t. Last week, the Democrat Congressman from California, together with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: June 2, 2017
Freedom of speech isn’t a free pass to avoid the consequences of what one says. Or does. Tell that to three members of the Homer, Alaska, city council — Donna Aderhold, David Lewis and Catriona Reynolds — who are the subject of a recall petition. Well, a superior court judge…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: April 27, 2022
Two years into the pandemic, we in America are now mostly arguing about masks. We’ve suffered pretty repressive measures, here. But we haven’t had to cope with: ● Being literally imprisoned in your home. Stopped from going out even to get food. ● Having fences erected around your home. “What…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: July 21, 2023
In this increasingly complex technological world, what can our school systems do to help students excel in advanced math? Well, here’s a novel approach: “Cambridge Public Schools no longer offers advanced math in middle school,” The Boston Globe reports. Hmmm. Rather counterintuitive: Take access away from students. Silly me, helping…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: July 17, 2018
“Term limits,” said Daniel McCarthy, editor of The Modern Age, in a recent podcast conversation with historian Tom Woods, “was one of the dorkiest ideas of the 1994 so-called Newt Gingrich revolution.” He characterized it as not having really gone anywhere. Huh? Granted, Congress is still not term-limited. But Americans…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: April 12, 2018
In 2013, Tacoma Park, Maryland, became the first place in the U.S. to allow 16-year-olds to vote in local elections.* Now, Washington, D.C., Councilman Charles Allen, “inspired by the high-schoolers who are campaigning for gun control and filled D.C. streets last month in a massive protest that mesmerized the country,”…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: May 26, 2021
In just weeks, the Pentagon will report to Congress on the matter of UFOs. Though the subject appears vast, beginning before World War II’s “foo fighters” and extending right up to Colorado’s ongoing (?) “drone” mystery, the impetus for much of the recent interest comes from one source: a declassified…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: February 26, 2021
Saturday is Term Limits Day. Boy, this holiday season really sneaked up on me. No excuse, though, because Term Limits Day falls on February 27th every year. On that date in 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, limiting the president to two terms in office. Call it…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: January 27, 2024
Government agencies that “fight crime” too often engage in criminal behavior to do so. In June of 2021, Common Sense with Paul Jacob reported on an FBI operation that raided safe deposit boxes. In March, the federal government conducted a raid of a safe deposit box company called U.S. Privacy…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: February 20, 2017
People have a right to defend themselves. Right? Especially against rape and murder. “This is not about free speech,” Yvette Felarca yelled to the crowd at the University of California-Berkeley, gathered weeks ago to “shut down” a scheduled speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, the controversial Breitbart editor. Felarca, a national organizer…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: January 23, 2017
Last year, Americans — everywhere from Montgomery County, Maryland, bordering the nation’s capital on the east coast, to sunny Santa Clara, California, on the west coast — voted to impose term limits on their elected officials. There were 40 separate local votes to enact term limits or, conversely, measures put…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: April 3, 2019
Reid Wilson’s very welcome reporting in The Hill, recently, was headlined, “GOP legislators clamping down on voter initiatives.” This disrespect for the people and their basic, democratic check on legislative power is far too common, and something about which people need to know. For instance, ballot measures in Florida already…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: March 9, 2020
In The Graduate (1967), the young man played by Dustin Hoffman gets advice from an elder. “Just one word: plastics.” “Exactly how do you mean, sir?” “There’s a great future in plastics.” When the world bans all plastic in 2021, that will be the end of that market opportunity. Other…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: July 18, 2022
Criminal courts provide an old kind of justice, where individuals’ specific acts are judged and individuals, if found guilty, are punished. “Social justice” is something else again — a daring, socialistic attempt to correct for all the ills “of society” or, more widely, “the cosmos.” That’s a huge agenda to…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: October 13, 2021
“Southwest Airlines crews are walking out and so are FAA air traffic controllers,” Buzz Patterson tweeted on Sunday. “This is just the beginning.” Buzz’s running for a House seat in California’s Seventh District. But I saw the tweet as quoted on Facebook by Erin Leigh, who wrote “Exactly what needs…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: February 1, 2023
You must place explosives a certain way when demolishing a building to avoid damaging surrounding structures. But if you just want to destroy, you can forget about such precautions. Could this be the perspective of those demanding national rent control? They forget — or ignore — the destruction of living…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: November 26, 2011
Nothing speaks to the out-of-control nature of government more loudly and clearly than the lavish pension benefits promised to public employees. The extravagance centers on their underfunded nature: The pensions’ benefits are defined — defined high — and underfunded or even unfunded as the employment occurs, leaving many states, metro…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: April 22, 2020
Has dissent about pandemic policy been outlawed? I mean, “for the duration”? Well, no. The Internet displays every possible view of policy and epidemiology, expressed with every possible degree of temperateness or intemperateness. Yet we are indeed seeing signs of indifference to freedom of speech even when that speech cannot…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: July 9, 2021
From the people who brought you “Defund the Police,” prepare yourself for . . . “Throw Billions at the Police!” “The Capitol Police on Monday announced a multi-pronged plan to expand its operations,” journalist Glenn Greenwald informs, highlighting that “the force intends for the first time to create a permanent…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: February 3, 2017
“The Free Speech Movement is dead.” So said the Berkeley College Republicans after violence Wednesday night forced cancelation of a sold-out speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, the Greek-born British author, now a senior editor at Breitbart News. The reference, of course, is to the University of California’s history as a haven…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: December 26, 2018
Students and faculty at the University of Southern California are upset because a popular dean of the Marshall School of Business, James Ellis, has been fired by interim USC President Wanda Austin. Hundreds have rallied in protest and petitioned for his reinstatement. Why the ouster? The administration has offered a…
Relevance: 20% Posted on: December 9, 2019
In ten days, the Democratic Party will hold a presidential debate that, according to the rules established by the Democratic National Committee, includes six qualified candidates all of whom are white. Which is apparently not the right color. “Of course, there is nothing wrong with Democrats selecting a white presidential…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: January 2, 2019
“Negotiations are impossible without trust,” wrote Leon Panetta in a Washington Post op-ed. What with all his experience, Mr. Panetta has some reason to be trusted on his chosen subject, government shutdowns. The California Democrat spent 16 years in the Congress before joining the Clinton Administration as Director of the…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: April 15, 2019
Politicians often dare . . . too much. But what did Rep. Ted Lieu dare to be last week? Candace Owens’ appearance before the House Committee on the Judiciary caused quite a stir. The subject was hate crimes and white nationalism, and she offered a wider perspective: “We’re not talking…
Relevance: 19% Posted on: October 8, 2019
Sen. Kamala Harris successfully bears aloft the banner of Barack Obama. As “a person of color”? Yeah, sure — but mainly by pandering to ignorant ideologues. “Look, women are still not paid equal for equal work in America,” she said recently at a campaign stop. The Daily Wire notes that…