How Rent Control Hurts Renters

June 16th, 2022 5:38 PM

Rents have reached record highs. But have no fear, renters! In the Minnesota cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, progressives persuaded people to vote for rent control. That'll punish those greedy landlords! Except, profits are what persuade builders to build things. When profits are high, other builders build. That's what creates more housing and, eventually, lower rents. Put limits on prices…

Sticks, Stones, and Worse Amid Threats of Political Violence

June 16th, 2022 11:32 AM

Most people are familiar with the phrase “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” The incendiary rhetoric that has engulfed our political system has demonstrated that especially violent words can cause hurt, even death, to others. The most recent example is a California man who showed up last week at the Maryland home of Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Police…

The Missing Element in the Debate About Guns

June 6th, 2022 10:59 AM

The heightened debate over gun violence following the massacre of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, is leaving out one critical element. The debate starts at the wrong end. Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Thermodynamics states: “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” While Newton’s laws were about physics, the concept of action and…

Our Culture of Violence

June 3rd, 2022 5:56 PM

Once again, it has happened in plain daylight. A mentally sick barbarian laid his paws on military-grade instruments of war, and he went to war against innocent people. Recently, it was Black people because they were Black, I assume. This time, it was children because they were children or defenseless or they had parents who drove them to school. Who knows? Doubtless, there have been lesser…

The Anarchic Philosophy Behind ‘LGBTQI+ Pride Month’

June 3rd, 2022 11:55 AM

June marks LGBTQI+ Pride Month — a month honoring those who are “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex.” This ever-expanding rubric revolves around a particular value system entirely embraced by the modern Left: the notion that a person's core identity ought to lie not in the relationship between individual desires and societal duties, but instead ought to revolve around a…

Conn. Offering $150K/Yr. to Head Up State's Own 'Ministry of Truth'

June 3rd, 2022 6:30 AM

The state of Connecticut is looking to pay some authoritarian $150,000/year to head up what sounds like it’s shaping up to be their own version of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) …

Government Creates the Baby Formula Shortage

June 2nd, 2022 4:40 PM

Parents still struggle to find baby formula. The left and most media (sorry, same thing?) blame “corporate power run amok.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says, “There might be a need for indictment!” They blame Abbott Laboratories, because it shut down a Similac plant. The Food and Drug Administration says unsanitary conditions led to deaths of two infants, but Abbott denies that its formula…

Texas Shooting: A Failure of Several Levels

June 1st, 2022 11:18 AM

There are no adjectives that can accurately describe the gruesome act committed by 18-year-old Salvador Ramos at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. He killed 19 children and two teachers. “Evil” is about as close as it gets. President Biden and some fellow Democrats predictably called for more gun control laws without explaining why current laws are not obeyed by people intent on…

Another Big Story the Press Missed

May 27th, 2022 10:14 AM

WASHINGTON -- The day after Robby Mook, the head of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for the presidency, implicated her at the top of a conspiracy to link Donald Trump in 2016 with a Russian bank, I could find no mention of it in the leading newspapers of the Republic, save The Wall Street Journal. The Journal covered Mook's testimony in a federal courtroom quite well.

Stupid Government Rules Create a Pilot Shortage

May 26th, 2022 1:58 PM

Planning to fly this summer? Good luck. Delays are up. Cancellations, too. Why? Because of the pilot shortage. A pilot shortage? How can this be? Flying is a popular job. Some people fly small planes just for fun. Why aren't there enough commercial pilots? Because the government passed another dumb law. In 2009, after a Colgan Air crash near Buffalo, New York, killed 50 people, Congress…

The Elitists Who Want to Rule the World

May 26th, 2022 9:21 AM

Klaus Schwab is the head of the World Economic Forum; he founded the organization in 1971. Each year, the WEF hosts a massive conference in Davos, Switzerland, with thousands of world leaders, diplomats and experts on various topics gathering to trade ideas about how best to cooperatively run the world.

The Law and Racism

May 22nd, 2022 11:22 PM

The overt racism and anti-Semitism written in the Buffalo shooter’s 180-page “manifesto” has been rightly denounced by civilized people. The usual questions are being asked. These include how did he get the gun after he was admitted to a hospital last year for symptoms of mental illness? Another question: Why did President Biden go to Buffalo when as many, or more people, have been shot on an…

Liberal Media Ignore Left’s Long History of Racism: Absurdly Blame Fox

May 21st, 2022 3:42 PM

One doesn’t know whether to see this as hilariously ironic or simply evidence of a massive lack of self-awareness. Here is the recent headline in The New York Times after the shooting in Buffalo, the story written by Nicholas Confessore and Karen Yourish: "A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the G.O.P." Fringe theory? Hardly. Right wing? Hardly.

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Woke Screen Rant Pummeled by Its Own Facebook Fans

May 21st, 2022 1:23 PM

Site bemoans Netflix's pro-free speech manifesto. It doesn't go well. You don’t need a journalism degree to spot the partisan bent of most entertainment sites. Which brings us to Screen Rant. The geek culture site once assumed a more neutral position with its content. Now, the site leans to the Left while embracing woke ideology. It explains why it’s aghast that Netflix, the stumbling…