So I guess that to protest campus carry some idiot launched a “cocks not glocks” campaign at UT Austin. This is the progressive left in a nutshell (or a nut.) They see themselves as the intellectual (hah!) heirs to Foucault, who, as a professor mine once said can be summed up in one word “transgress!”…
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Campus Rape? No…Campus Obstruction Of Justice
In an earlier life, I was a cog in a very large American corporation. As many of you know, much management time is spent in training sessions that address a multitude of potential risks for the company…very few more dangerous than sexual harassment. One point was hammered into us over and over….Once a charge of…
Che Guevara: Hero Of The Left, And Mass Murderer
Over at Ace of Spades, there was a sidebar piece mocking Time’s tongue bath of a psychopathic murderer. Maybe one day Guevara will be recognized for what he was, rather than what the Left so earnestly desires, a charismatic, handsome (I guess) revolutionary leader. The reality is somewhat different. Che was a cold-blooded killer who…
Dear Republican Leadership: Shutting Down The Government Is A Good Thing
In October 2013, A Republican congress chose not to fund government operations and the administration was forced to shut down portions of the federal government, including purposefully chosen departments like the National Park Service. The Democrats won the sound-bite battle, with lots of silly audio of people complaining they couldn’t vacation, and embarrassing video of…
And Now For Something Completely Different: The FN Five-seveN MK2
I have never fired this pistol, but it’s an intriguing idea….20 rounds of a small caliber, high velocity round that has negligible recoil. My self-defense weapons are both large caliber…..a .40 S&W (H&K USP) and the venerable 1911 Mk. IV Series 70 (Colt Gold Cup). Obviously I accept the arguments that large caliber rounds are…
Oil Find On The Golan Is A Game Changer
Large oil deposits found on the Golan Heights add some interesting complexity to Israel’s long-term security situation. If this find can be developed at a reasonable cost, it would allow Israel to be energy self-sufficient….they already have large natural gas fields in the Mediterranean. Of course, the significant down side to this is the real…
Have We Reached An Inflection Point? Pushing Back Against The Assumptions About Campus Rape
Ashe Schow, who is, astonishingly, that rara avis, a rational and evenhanded journalist, has written a couple of good articles about rape, focusing on the supposed Rape EpidemicTM on college campuses. In the first article, with a stunningly obvious but widely ignored point in the title: Campus sexual assault is rarely black and white, she…
As If Congress Wasn’t Awful Enough…DrewM Points Out Another Failing
DrewM, Ace of Spades’ resident gadfly, is reliably critical of the legislative branch. And for good reason. They have abrogated their responsibilities in the service of short-term political gain…namely being reelected. But today he brought up an excellent point, one that is often overwhelmed by Congress’s more obvious and painful shortcomings. The real question in…
An Unfortunate Incident? Yes. A War Crime? No.
Doctors Without Borders, or the much hipper name Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has accused the United States of war crimes for the probably inadvertent bombing of their lone hospital in Northern Afghanistan. Obviously all the facts are not available to anyone, including the hyperbolic MSF spokesmen. It is entirely possible that the Taliban were firing…
Hillary Clinton: As Vile In Private As You Would Think
The NY Post has a short article about the recent exposé, The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents. There is absolutely nothing that surprises me about this vile, entitled, sociopath, who sees other human beings as cogs in the machine that provides for her pleasure and power. What…