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Managing the Overton

The growing controversy is whether or not media outlets and social media should give any air time to personalities with controversial views. More platforms have drawn a firm line, refusing to host certain voices and their ideas in an effort to distance themselves from perspectives seen as extreme, repugnant, or simply outside accepted norms.

This strategy—commonly described as narrowing the “Overton window”—has become a flashpoint in debates about free speech, truth, and who gets to influence public conversation.

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Reset Halloween

Let’s make it bigger than Christmas! We’ll start before Labor Day and celebrate ’til Black Friday, or at least until the candy runs out.

But we don’t have to. Millions of Americans are rightly deciding this pagan campaign to celebrate death has become too commercialized, too slutty, too last century. Instead of turning out the lights and leaving a basket on the stoop to appease the pagan hordes, perhaps it’s time to affirm that Halloween, properly understood, is historically, a Christian Feast, and worth a cultural reset.

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The Truth About Healthcare

This is American healthcare. Medical debt is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the United States, and nearly half of American adults have delayed or skipped care because they couldn’t afford it. Healthcare needs a reset because our healthcare system is designed to be expensive.

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The Truth About Socialism

These days, Socialism is all the rage, so for better or worse — and it’s always worse —  it’s important to recognize it for what it is, and isn’t. Socialism means the government owns the means of production. Yes, you’ve heard of “public” ownership, but the public doesn’t own or take responsibility for anything. Government does.

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"Love is NOT love"

Define: Hate

How simple-minded do leftists (Democrats, socialists, and their ilk) have to be to reduce all of their opposition’s arguments to a single word? Some may call that economy, but for most, it shows a lack of education. Or willful ignorance.

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Boston Boston, 1976

Boston – Foreplay/Long Time

“Foreplay” is the first song ever recorded by MIT grad/musical genious Tom Scholz. Written in 1969 and recorded on a two-track machine in his basement in 1971, “Foreplay” merged with “Long Time” on It’s a Knockout, a sampler LP to EPIC records, before being released on Boston’s monumental debut album BOSTON (1976).

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Define: Cultural Appropriation

Cultural Appropriation is an umbrella term that manages to represent not only spiteful depictions of other cultures but also benign celebrations of diversity, or any person or company trying to market products resembling something from another culture…

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