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  • 1899 Insurance Co.: No Insurance for ‘Intemperate or Immoral’ People

    1899 Insurance Co.: No Insurance for ‘Intemperate or Immoral’ People0

    If you’re looking for an illustration as to how much we’ve changed in the last 100 or so years, take a look at this list of instructions for medical examiners from the Manhattan Life Insurance Company of New York. The document, published in 1899, is basically a dull litany of things medical examiners should do

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  • The Coarseness of our Discourse

    The Coarseness of our Discourse0

    There’s a story floating around today about a radio station being hacked and an expletive-laced recording played through the station’s broadcast signal. CBS Denver describes it below. Listeners of the Breckenridge-based 106.3 FM The Lift radio station heard strange ramblings from an unknown person along with a lot of foul language on Tuesday morning. …

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  • Relativism is Enslaving

    Relativism is Enslaving0

    • April 7, 2016

    Holbrook Jackson: “Truth is one’s own conception of things.”   G. K. Chesterton: “The Big Blunder. All thought is an attempt to discover if one’s own conception is true or not.”   The above exchange between Holbrook Jackson and G. K. Chesterton summarizes the radical difference between the relativist and the realist in regard to

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  • Ray Lewis Rips #BlackLivesMatter

    Ray Lewis Rips #BlackLivesMatter0

    There’s a powerful video going viral right now that features Ray Lewis pointing out the utter horror and bloodshed taking place in Chicago when it comes to black-on-black crime and the fact that #BlackLivesMatter and other groups seem more interested in going after cops than demanding a change from the black community. As he says,

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  • Must a Jewish Baker Make a Nazi Cake?

    Must a Jewish Baker Make a Nazi Cake?0

    At the first-ever nationally televised debate between candidates for the Libertarian Party, the subject turned to a fundamental issue: the freedom not to associate. The subject concerned anti-discrimination law, particularly as it affects religion. Gary Johnson was asked whether he, as president, would retain laws that prohibit discrimination based on religion. He said he would,

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  • Megyn Kelly: ‘I don’t like being the story.’

    Megyn Kelly: ‘I don’t like being the story.’0

    Minnesota Public Radio has announced that it will be rolling out a new investigative unit, determined to “produce investigations of national substance”. The difficulty of doing so because advertisers and other moneyed interests can pull strings, MPR readily admitted to MinnPost: In an interview that took several months to come together (MPR being a bit

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