Author: CBD

The Woke curriculum that is pushing out classical education is going to be the death of traditional academia in America. Add to it the ferocious censorship of anything remotely resembling heterogeneity of thought, and in many cases actual violence in response to any expression of political or social philosophy that does not embrace a ridiculous…

The Gun Control Act of 1968 has done tremendous damage to the freedoms we hold dear. It has created an unaccountable bureaucracy that has systematically chipped away at those freedoms, and has done very little to protect Americans from “gun violence,” whatever that is! Is there a legitimate government interest in controlling the possession of…

The experience of the last two generations has proved that American military might is always used with craven political and financial considerations at the forefront, and winning — exacting a terrible toll on the enemy while preserving American lives — is no longer part of the equation. We have spent 20 years in the Middle…

The Law Of Unintended Consequences is always operative. Of course you can see it in a slightly different way, as explained in a Yiddish aphorism: “Man plans and God laughs.” But there is more to this than the unforseen results of new technology used in novel ways. This is one more egregious example of the…

Policing in America is broken. That’s a sentence I have written before, and will undoubtedly write again. Militarization of civilian police, moving away from foot patrols to car patrols, the “war” on drugs…all of it, and more, has conspired to convert community police into paramilitary squads whose enemies are all too often the people they…

Ah yes…the breathtaking hypocrisy of the American anti-gun politician…pontificating about the evil of our natural and God-given rights to self defense and protection against tyranny while he exercises them, courtesy of the taxpayers. In a much-quoted statement he said that the 2nd Amendment was “becoming a suicide pact,” whatever that means. Yet he enjoys round-the-clock…

One of the many glories of Western culture has been the transition from a brutal world in which the value of a human life is measured in sacks of corn or a goat, to one in which the individual — the most basic unit of society — has intrinsic value and an immutable place in…

Strategic considerations are famously absent from most political decisions in our current dysfunctional federal government. So having specific policy goals that address long-term issues with concrete answers is a very good thing. Chinese expansion is a strategic problem that is being carefully ignored by our bought-and-paid-for congress. And it is an issue that is going…

Stop laughing! No..seriously, as much as we would all enjoy the diminution of China as a manufacturing powerhouse (based on that disappearing source of cheap labor), the more unpleasant is the concomitant lashing out of the communist party as they see their global domination slip away as a consequence of their own insane policy of…

Celebrity Worship is a cancer on the body cultural, and has contributed to the coarsening of public discourse, the destruction of morality in private life, and the cheapening of the idea of the role model as an exemplar of success in society. Until a few generations ago we had celebrities who for the most part…