Ace of Spades is usually and correctly reflexively pro-freedom, and very sensitive to attacks on it, so this surprised me. whether they want sharia or not is a fairly secondary issue. A lot of people want strange political arrangements. @ScotchJLK — The Scandalous DJT (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 8, 2015 Ace is comparing Sharia law to political…
Month: December 2015
The Irrationality Of The “Gun Free Zone”
Consider for a moment what “Gun Free Zone” actually means. Not just the obvious — that a Gun Free Zone is an area or building in which the normal laws governing firearms possession and carry are superseded by a blanket prohibition. But the actual implementation of the restrictions, and how they can be enforced in…
Is the FBI even bothering to really investigate the San Bernardino Attack?
I think this is a legitimate question to ask given that I’m watching live on CNN as the media picks apart the apartment crime scene while CNN’s own experts say they’re disturbed by the lack of law enforcement control over said scene. I’ll have to defer to both experts and common sense here and both…
Where Have All The “Can we call this terrorism?” Articles Gone?
The title of this one is pretty self explanatory. After the South Carolina and Colorado shootings the left was running around going “can’t you call this terrorism?” or “Isn’t this terrorism, why can’t you say it?” (For my part, terrorism needs some sort of end goal or message other than “die all you people.” The…
Young white people are losing their faith in the American Dream
Young white Americans are now as downbeat on the American dream as young Americans of color. Source: Young white people are losing their faith in the American Dream – The Washington Post (Sorry for another content-free post; life intervenes, in this case in the form of coaching the elder Guevara through multivariable calculus (which…
Once Again Trump’s Megalomania Distracts Us From Real Concerns
So, in “the sky is blue” news, Trump has been shooting his mouth off again. That’s not the problem, the problem is the after effect. Any time Trump shoots his mouth we end up talking about what he said, rather than actual issues. We’re there “thousands” celebrating in New Jersey? I’m going to go with…
A Disquieting Suggestion: The Left Cannot Comprehend Us
In such a culture men would use expressions such as ‘neutrino’, ‘mass’, ‘specific gravity’, ‘atomic weight’ in systematic and often interrelated ways which would resemble in lesser or greater degrees the ways in which such expressions had been used in earlier times…But many of the beliefs presupposed by the use of these expressions would have been…