We have better vetting for movies than political candidates! Ever notice that? You can go to Rotten Tomatoes and discover gems in the rough, but when it comes to primaries and general elections the political award season for candidates, the nominations are… Who?
Determining the best candidate for each voter should be possible based on the quality of today’s AI, and the amount of public data available, from state candidacy filings, official sites, pundits on social media, and so forth… But…
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.
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.
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.
Unlike outright lying about their policies, or projecting their atrocities on Republicans, or giving their corruptocrat bills cutesy or ironic names, the evil party (the Democrats) uses definitional retreat in public debate as…
ocial media is sputtering about the black culture not celebrating July 4 because it wasn’t their holiday. That is, their ancestors were still slaves, so the Declaration of Independence (along with other founding documents) do not apply to them.
This is nonsense but before we get to that, let’s start with clarifying some vocabulary.
Pathological altruism is that feel-good, smooth ride highway to hell, paved with good intentions. That is, typically paved by Democrat radicals who lecture the world about so many ills that they either created by their meddling or made worse by their intervention.
We can all appreciate the spirit of generosity that permeates American culture. However…
Since the dawn of humanity there has been only two sexes, and they are not interchangeable. Those suffering from gender dysphoria deserve our pity, and our sympathy. But they don’t deserve our compliance. And the main point is this…
Definition of white privilege: The unspoken advantage that the dominant “white” culture has over “people of color”: power, benefits, and other advantages are
“When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir,” Dr. Martin Luther King.
