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…
The Only Rational Response To Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei
He pledged, “there will be no Israel in 25 years.” Israel should state unequivocally, clearly and calmly….”Then there will be no Iran in 25 years and one day.” That the world glosses over this existential threat to Israel — the last hope for the Jewish people — is prima facie evidence of the bitter hatred…
I Understand The Gun Control People. They Are Wrong, But I Get It
The problem with their thinking is that they do not continue to ponder the question, and accept their own emotional response to gun violence: Get Rid Of The Guns! But what I absolutely do not understand is why their gleeful embrace of prohibition carefully ignores America’s rather unimpressive attempts at controlling or prohibiting the possession…
‘Twas Ever Thus
Feuding and ideological extremism have driven some of the US’s flagship leftwing radio stations to the brink of collapse, according to two veteran broadcasters. Source: ‘This is the end’: leftwing Pacifica Radio affiliates enter protracted death spiral | Media | The Guardian As indicated previously, leftist psychology fascinates me. On one hand, when faced with…
We Have Our Chamberlain…But Who Is Our Hitler?
This isn’t news; Obama has destroyed our standing in the world, particularly in the Middle East, where three millenia of strife has taught us that a power vacuum is always filled rapidly. We have squandered our blood and treasure in that violent cesspit, and have left our only ally in the region to fend for…
Then I took a Kenneth Arrow to the knee
Blog host CBD asks us is healthcare demand really elastic? The answer is a complicated mess of “yes, sometimes, but not always” that’s worth exploring. If you ask a liberal to discuss the inelasticity of healthcare cost my experience is they will ramble on for chapters incoherently about Kenneth Arrow and market failures. You can actually read Arrow’s…
The Craft Beer Illusionists…
Much like Donald Trump, who identifies a marketing opportunity and capitalizes upon it, ultimately making a monster of it, InBev has feverishly been working to beat the (and if you can’t beat ’em buy ’em,) craft beer market…and no, I don’t like pumpkin beers nor handlebar mustaches. Anheuser-Busch InBev is currently in merger talks with…