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In 1961, when I was a 10-year-old living in Boonville, North Carolina, a town of 600 people, firearms were commonplace. Some of the townspeople hunted with rifles and shotguns, others kept handguns in their homes. High school kids drove to school with guns in their cars. That same year, there was one school shooting in
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Before we discuss violence with guns, I’d like to run a couple of questions by you. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every day nearly 30 Americans die in motor vehicle crashes that involve drunk driving. What kind of restrictions should be placed on automobile ownership? Should there be federal background checks
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In case it wasn’t already apparent that life is not fair, yet another study has shown that attractive people have it better. According to NPR Ed, a recent study at Metropolitan State University of Denver found that good looking women received higher grades from professors. Researchers had outside observers rate students’ physical attractiveness based on their
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Camille Paglia said something the other day that triggered a group of whinypants college students at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts. They launched a petition to get the school’s president, David Yager, to silence its most famous professor. I just want to let that sink in: these SJW twerps actually think they can defeat CAMILLE FREAKING PAGLIA! From their
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It seems a bomb has been detonated in America’s education sector. Oh sure, there have been explosions going off the last few months as people try to adjust to alternative schooling. It’s only now, however, that we are beginning to realize how earth-shaking those explosions have really been. A new poll was released by RealClear
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“Santa Claus is comin’ to town,” are the repetitive words to a classic Christmas song. But will those words ring true this holiday season? Perhaps not, if the ongoing backup of ships and supplies at major American ports continues. The Spectator explores this problem in “The Supply Chain Problem Is Here
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