Blog 3 Columns

City Councils Cave When Faced With the Marketplace of Ideas 1
- Culture
- July 31, 2020
City councils across America almost seem intent on proving that the best cure for a bad idea is a good idea, though, they are going about it in a rather interesting new way. The Washington Post reports that a Black Lives Matter street mural – which stood for a month and a half and greeted President Trump
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Reagan’s Farewell Warning Was Ignored (And Now We Are Paying the Price)0
- Education
- July 30, 2020
In his 1989 farewell address, President Reagan asked the rhetorical question, “Are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world?” He followed up with the answer: Our spirit is back, but we haven’t reinstitutionalized it. We’ve got to do a better job
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Political Legitimacy Dies in 2020 0
- Politics
- July 30, 2020
The American political system may be on the eve of its worst legitimacy crisis since the Civil War. Early warning signals indicate that many states could suffer catastrophic failures in counting votes in November. The election will occur amidst the vast economic devastation inflicted by a political class that responded to COVID by seizing almost
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Doing the Math on Black-on-Black Crime 0
- Culture
- July 30, 2020
In the adult world of serious matters, opinions are useless, irrelevant, and worthless, because everyone has one; anything that everyone has is usually of little to no value. Conversely, science, math, numbers, evidence, data and facts, contracts, and laws – these matter a great deal. Despite what the limousine liberal athletes of American professional sports
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Copying Rome’s Last Gasps and Searching for a Way Out 0
- History
- July 30, 2020
“How do you know if you’re living through the death of an empire?” is the blunt question heading a Mother Jones piece. A friend recently brought this article to my attention, and although written in mid-March 2020 when the COVID-19 virus was still “novel” and seclusion at home rather than rioting in the streets was
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Celebrities Who Said Goodbye to California 0
- Economics
- July 30, 2020
California dreaming? Nothing wrong with that. The Golden State has a lot to offer. California has the fifth largest economy in the world. The San Francisco Bay Area alone has a GDP of $535 billion and ranks 19th in the world in economic activity. The state boasts one of the largest agricultural industries on the
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Sweden’s COVID Results vs. the April Models 7
- Politics
- July 29, 2020
At a press conference last week, Anders Tegnell said a massive decline in new COVID-19 cases shows Sweden’s “lighter touch” strategy is doing what it was designed to do. “It really is yet another sign that the Swedish strategy is working,” Tegnell, Sweden’s top epidemiologist, said. “It is possible to slow contagion fast with the
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SCOTUS Allows Nevada to Favor Caesars Palace Over Calvary Chapel 0
- Politics
- July 29, 2020
One bad decision can be a mistake. Two is a pattern. In late May, Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the Supreme Court’s four liberal members in South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom to deny a request from a California church that it be allowed to operate under the same conditions as similar secular
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If Social Media Wants to Play Doctor, They Should Prepare for Malpractice Suits 0
- Culture
- July 29, 2020
Most people understand that the constitutional guarantee of free speech does not include falsely yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater. A panicked mob can crush or trample weak and vulnerable people as the instinct to survive overtakes common decency. This maxim came to mind when Breitbart announced that Twitter and Facebook censored a press conference
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City Councils Cave When Faced With the Marketplace of Ideas 1