Author: CBD

As distasteful as flag burning is, if a protester wants to burn an American flag, then have at it. And if a protester wants to burn a cross, well, that’s offensive, but the whole point of free speech laws is to protect offensive speech, not pathetic bromides spouted by smarmy fools. But…there is a line,…

The complexities of the global economy make simplistic solutions for the problems caused by offshoring and dumping and unfettered immigration, like “MORE EDUCATION!” a bit silly. And even defining terms is difficult. Many people around here are for free trade as imagined in textbooks, but when that trade is used as a weapon the way…

When your society conflates rapping with intellectualism, when your greatest icons throw a ball through a hoop or sing about casual sexual intercourse being the highest expression of humanity, and when you kill each other at astonishing rates, you get knuckle-dragging, booger-eating ignorant assholes like this: TV host, rapper Nick Cannon propagates anti-Semitic conspiracy theories…

Why do you oppose abortion? For many it is the religious prohibition, for many it is that the value of life is not dependent on anything other than our humanity. Assigning a value to humanity based on anything other than intrinsic and immutable things is a slippery slope. Which is exactly the point of abortion…

I love statues, and will cross the street or walk down the block whenever I see one in a new city, and if it is someone with whom I am familiar, so much the better. But good, bad or indifferent, statues are a signal that someone thought that the guy who dug the first sewer…

Ah yes…The Heritage Foundation. Looking at the board of directors it should be a solid place, but this mewling quim has disgraced herself and conservatism with her desperate pleas to be considered a “good conservative” to preserve her invitations to the best cocktail parties. “Racism in America is a fatal wound,” the author lamented. “Every…

Somebody once said, “elections have consequences.” And here is a delightful one! Michael Pack’s nomination for head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media was delayed for almost two years by Mitch McConnell and the Senate. And guess what? He is finally confirmed and is doing what most political appointees do…or should do…fire holdovers from…

What to do? We are a law-abiding people, or at least we used to be. We are a country that respects its traditions and history, or at least we used to be. We are a country that is quite tolerant of others, or at least we used to be. But the dilution of American Exceptionalism…

Yes. We have a policing problem in this country. But contrary to the anarcho-fascists running wild in our streets (and the halls of academia, and lots of city halls…but I digress), it isn’t a race problem. It is a government problem.

Yamamoto’s apocryphal quotation, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve,” is, at least in part, an accurate description of America. We are slow to anger, we accept the status quo even when it is not in out best interests, and most of all…