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A New Year’s Chat With the Devil0
- Culture
- December 30, 2019
Ah, New Year’s Eve! It’s a great moment for reflecting on the past, taking stock of the present, and planning for the future. Indulging in the Auld Lang Syne cliché is not unique to humans. The spirit world does the same, or at least it does according to a piece in a 1948 edition of
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Why Marx Was Against Individual Rights0
- Economics
- December 27, 2019
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Virginia’s Would-Be Gun Grabbers Likely to Face Blowback0
- Politics
- December 27, 2019
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam apologized for his medical school blackface stunt, but he will have much more to apologize for if he signs into law a bill that attacks Virginia residents’ Second Amendment rights. The measure is Senate Bill 16, which would ban “assault” firearms and certain firearm magazines. Since Democrats have seized control of
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Too Young? Too Old? What Age Restrictions Reveal About Our Humanity0
- Philosophy
- December 27, 2019
On December 20, 2019, President Donald Trump signed into law the $738 billion Defense Spending Bill. In addition to providing for our nation’s military needs, the bill raised the legal age for smoking nationwide to 21 within the next year. This restriction includes both traditional tobacco products and vaping. By 1988, all states implemented
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The Myth That the Rich Don’t Pay Their ‘Fair Share’ of Taxes0
- Economics
- December 27, 2019
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have led the charge to add many zeros to what some Americans should be given at others’ expense. As a result, they have doubled (or tripled) down on an “old reliable” claim of the left that “the rich” don’t pay their “fair share” of taxes. But that excuse to tax
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Jonathan Swift Explains Why We Don’t Trust Politicians0
- Literature
- December 27, 2019
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Why Greta Thunberg Should Be Time’s ‘Person of the Year’0
- Politics
- December 26, 2019
Time Magazine has announced that this year’s Person of the Year award will go to the 16-year-old Greta Thunberg. The Swedish school-girl-turned-eco-activist has become the poster-girl of the climate change-turned-emergency worldwide. The choice was not surprising, given the media adulation for the girl who has traveled the globe with a minimal carbon footprint. Time has long abandoned
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The Confused Logic of Christianity Today’s Pro-Impeachment Editorial0
- Politics
- December 26, 2019
Christianity Today‘s recent editorial calling for Trump’s impeachment has caused quite a buzz in the national news. But the editorial, which takes on Trump on the grounds that he is “morally confused,” is itself morally – and logically – confused. There are two separate issues in the prominent evangelical magazine’s editorial which the editors hopelessly
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Here’s How Bad San Francisco’s Poop Problem Got In 20190
- Culture
- December 26, 2019
San Francisco residents reported more than 30,000 cases of poop to authorities in 2019, city records show. As of Monday afternoon, the city’s Department of Public Works responded to 30,136 cases of “human or animal waste” this year, easily topping the 28,353 cases the agency handled in 2018 with a week still to go, according to a
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