RFK Jr. Is a loon when it comes to vaccines, and the catastrophe that is the Covid19 vaccine effort has just solidified his opinions. The reality is that there many, safe, effective, lifesaving vaccines available, and the experience with these in the 20th century is a wonderful example of the power of science. Polio, Small…
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The Morning Rant: California Nightmare Edition
California had it all! 50 years ago it was the place! Abundant energy, reasonable taxes, superb public and private universities, a sane state government, and an entrepreneurial spirit that was incredible. If you had a great idea…you went to California to see whether it would work! Add in the absolutely spectacular physical beauty of the…
The Morning Rant: Fire Witkoff
There are jabbering fools on the left who make statements that, while seemingly in English, make absolutely no sense. For instance, transsexual and race jargon lends itself to nonsense, and many on the left are happy to use it. Perhaps it makes it easy to speak without engaging their brains, or maybe they enjoy carefully…
Anti-Semitism May Be Offensive, But Should It Be Illegal?
Short Answer: No
Brandeis famously stated that “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants” in a Harper’s Weekly article in 1913. It was true then and it is true now! Brandeis didn’t say, “Jail time is appropriate for bad thoughts,” and that is a vital point. Am I defending anti-Semitism? No, of course not. I think…
The Morning Rant: Peace? In Ukraine?
To the vast disappointment of the Forever-WarTM supporters, President Trump’s efforts to end the pointless border war in Ukraine may be entering a new phase. Both the Z-man and Putin have agreed to end energy infrastructure attacks which, while it might seem incomplete and narrowly focused, is a boon for the people who are suffering….
The Morning Rant: Hey Europe, Join The Fun In Yemen!
The Houthis have been around since the 1990s, when they emerged as just another lunatic Shia terrorist organization. Oh sure… they were nominally a political movement that was anti-Saudi, and of course anti-American, but let us face reality. Every Muslim freedom movement or revolutionary movement devolves into terrorism. Here is their official slogan. Seriously: God…
Government Spending? No! Government Borrowing… or Government Stealing
Government Spending. Except that is a misnomer. We should be calling it Government Borrowing, because that is exactly what it is. On the other hand… maybe it should be called “government stealing,” because they are stealing our grandchildren’s livelihood! It is impossible to become wealthier by borrowing every year for generations, and yet the central…
The Morning Rant: Greenlanders Attack?
Great! Let’s make Greenland a protectorate or a colony or a territory or whatever legal definition suits us. It’s too big to tip over, and it would be fun to poke the EU in the eye and take chunk of one of their pseudo-countries. They can’t do much about it, except make squawking noises and…
The Morning Rant: Syria’s Devil In A Suit And A Trimmed Beard
Arabs killing Christians? Nobody cares. Arabs killing Jews? Nobody cares. Arabs killing Arabs? Nobody cares. Only when Jews or Christians kill Arabs, even during a just defensive war, does the world respond with its typical, fanatical calls for Restraint and Cease-fire and Return to former borders and Humanitarian Crisis and Disproportionate and even Genocide! But…
Is Virulent Jew-Hate The Only Free Speech Allowed At Columbia University?
Let’s play a little game… pretend that a group of “White Supremacists” (yeah, I know, they mostly don’t exist) decided to parade across the Columbia University quad in KKK garb, then set up a “camp” where they built little gallows for mock lynchings. Oh, add in some signs about how the Emancipation Proclamation was an…