I’m sorry if this sounds harsh, and no doubt I will be called a racist, but it sure seems to me that the Civil Rights movement’s quest for equality has given way to the martyr complex created by #BlackLivesMatter. Before anyone tells me that I can’t understand because I’m not black – I grew…
“Some men aren’t looking for anything logical. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.” ~ Alfred J. Pennyworth describing the Joker to Bruce Wayne We are told that the various protests/riots/looting events around the country are the result of anger. We’re also told that…
In my opinion, the unequal treatment of churches during this manufactured panic reveals another fundamental truth. Secular humanism leads to autocracy and tyranny. Marxists, secular humanists, and totalitarian statists share a fear of religion. That fear is rooted in the idea that there is a power greater than the state and that power is vested…
“America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others.” ~ Jamelle Bouie, The 1619 Project “Jeffries and teachers in upper grades I talked to around the country say they spend the beginning of their presentations on slavery explaining to students that what they learned in elementary school…
After being reminded of Jonathan Haidt’s 2012 book, “The Righteous Mind”, I’ve been thinking about the Moral Foundations Theory Haidt proposed. He noted that there are 5 (maybe 6) foundations for morality and these things determine the differences between liberals (whom I call progressives because I believe that is a better description) and conservatives (whom…
To all my Utah friends out there on the InnerTubes, especially those in the First Congressional District (Box Elder, Cache, Daggett, Duchesne, Morgan, Rich, Summit, Uintah, and Weber counties and a part of Davis County): I invite you to write me in. I thought about this earlier this year but since I have little faith…
“Believe all scientists” makes about as much sense as “believe all women”. We never should believe all of any group simply because they are a particular identity. Our local paper published an editorial asserting that if you don’t just blindly do what the “scientists” tell you, you are an anti-vaxxing, knuckle-dragging moron who just wants…
In a way, American culture has nationalized a perspective that was popularized during the Obama administration and one that I hated to no end. If you think back to those thrilling days of yesteryear (when we were introduced to “funemployment” and a dystopian “new normal”), almost everything that happened to Obama was “unexpected” or “unique”…
In a way, America is getting a taste of life under a centrally planned, collectivist economy and government. Over the past few weeks: People are only allowed to do the things a very few “experts” sanctioned by the state think are proper. Voluminous regulations are created covering every aspect of daily life and then arbitrarily…
The Rio Norte Line 
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