Last week I read the title of this article (ban on transgender troops to be lifted July 1) and wrote: Cost? (special bathrooms, special meds, expensive surgeries, time off for surgeries) Tactics? (Fight in same sex unit or assumed sex unit) What’s the rush? 4th of July statement? After reading the article, it turns out…
You have to keep one thing in mind about a committed progressive – which almost every Democrat is these days – they are only about the glorious people’s revolution and as such there is only the revolutionary truth – that collection of words that support the aforementioned revolution. Whether those words are true or not…
NOTE: I do not wish to be mistaken as directly addressing anyone with this post. Therefore, I beg the reader to read it as though I were talking to myself aloud. How is it that so many people in the West these days refuse to accept reality? One of the things that confuses me most…
Just a few words about the current wave of anti-establishment sentiment washing around the world – electing new people to helm a preexisting establishment structure will not change a thing. Unless the people elected have expressed a commitment to tear the establishment down (not alter, change or “improve” – because the inertia of an established,…
“Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.” ~ Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776) Given the disdain the socialist…
Brexit was not solely about economics, tax policy or being part of a greater union with the Continent – Brexit was a reaction to both elected and unelected elites demanding total obedience and fealty to often absurd commands simply because some official said so. I can remember at time when I lived in Edinburgh when a…
“This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” FDR, Inaugural Speech, 1932 America has become the…
Unless you are depraved, you want to reduce these mass shootings but as I have noted in the past with the posting of the clip of the 1991 congressional testimony of Dr. Suzanna Hupp (survivor off the Luby’s Restaurant shooting in Killeen, Texas that killed 23), for the past 30 years the reaction to these…
Gee – you know what is EXACTLY like an attack by ISIS? Vile comments directed toward the LGBT community – or so claims this op-ed in USA Today: “Hate, it seems, isn’t always carried here from foreign shores. In fact, homegrown hate can be just as deadly as any rooted in the Islamic State’s ideology.”…
There are two mathematical concepts that almost everybody intuitively knows – even if you attended public schools anytime within the past 30 years or so. The first is called the Law of Large Numbers, a mathematical rule that states that “as the number of trials of a chance experiment increase, the experimental probability of an…
“If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it.” ~ Albert Einstein True problem solving requires doing one important thing – defining the problem. Doing so is so essential and critical to actually getting a desired result that nothing can be…
Originally posted on THE ROAD TO CONCORD:
It is popular among the ‘intellectual elite,’ and their baying sheep, to say that the Declaration and Constitution are ‘old, dusty and irrelevant.’ The assertion always takes some form of “The founders never envisioned,” and/or “Times have changed.” The problem for all these fools (yes, they are all…
Virtue signaling. I have written of this before. It is simply a way the progressive left sends messages to the other members of their tribe that the messenger belongs, they are one of the tribe. The screeching of the anti-gun harpies after any major event involving a gun after years long silence over the slow…
Of all the news stories that I read yesterday morning, the one that keeps niggling at my brain is the article about the mayor of London banning “body shaming” ads from the busses, or tubes as the British refer to them. (How on God’s green earth they came up with that, I’ll never know…. I…
Given that nothing really ever changes and what was old is new again, the comments coming from the progressives after the tragic Orlando shootings indicate 1) the absolute intent of the Democrats to lie about everything, 2) the total denial of objective reality, 3) their necessity to create an alternate reality where their incoherent and…
Originally posted on The Oil for Your Lamp:
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon…
Originally posted on The Oil for Your Lamp:
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” — Voltaire What did Voltaire mean by this? He meant to warn us against demagogues and populists. Charismatic liars such as these are capable of convincing you to believe things that you know to be…
I’m out of the country this week and the only US news I can get at the Ritz-Carlton in Beijing is CNN. I watch a little CNN at home – but just on occasion and in small doses. The fact is that CNN is awful. Dreadful. Useless. With Hillary back on the prowl, they are…
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