The Denver City Council beclowns itself by delaying the acceptance of an application for a Chick-fil-A restaurant at the airport. All the usual suspects are belching up typical progressive, anti-freedom drivel, under the guise of their concern for “really, truly a moral issue on the city.” And of course the excellent and successful business acumen…
Things that haunt my nightmares
[I apologize in advance for the sort of stream of consciousness nature of this post, I’m writing it during a baby nap, which I think only adds to the effect.] As many of you who hang around the HQ know, I have a 7.5 month old daughter, who’s the joy of my life. I’m blessed…
Life Unworthy of Life. So, Can We Have Your Liver Then?
“Separated at birth. Oh, wait a minute…” Whatever one’s views on abortion, for anyone to be intellectually honest as well as not have a heart made of stone, the recent release of videos by the Center for Medical Progress cannot be viewed without complete revulsion. But, let’s leave that discussion for another time and focus in…
The Reanimation of the Clinic’s corpse
“Foucault’s clinic is dead.” So starts Daniel Sulmasy’s book The Rebirth of the Clinic. My department chair will tell you that Sulmasy is referring to the clinic being spiritually dead. And that is clearly true (the entire book is on spirituality in medicine.) Yet Sulmasy goes through great effort to also portray the clinic as…
Higher Education – You can’t beat it
New generation of young farmers increasingly college educated, but indebted This is priceless, and emblematic of the social pathology that characterizes higher education today, as well as the media that write approvingly of such fail-to-launch adults. Last but not least, it also exemplifies many of the kids who are apparently not bright enough to realize…
The Minimum Wage….Wow, What A Stupid Idea!
I rant and rave constantly about the minimum wage, which, as many people with an ounce of common sense have pointed out, is $0.00/hour. But for some reason the Left’s attempts to decouple basic economics from the discussion of the minimum wage has worked rather well. If you ask the simple question: “What happens to…
The Wicked Son, or “Give Back Your Bar Mitzvah Money!”
“I’ll take Jenjis Cohen to win in the 5th at Pimlico…” Greater than the mystery of how many licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop, the enigma of the self-hating Jew is one that has boggled the mind, at least since the turn of the 20th Century if…
Well done, Fritz
Brigadier General Frederick Payne USMC ret., better known as “Fritz,” has slipped the surly bonds of earth at 104 and gone on to Eternal Rest. During two and a half weeks in 1942, from behind the guns of his Grumman F4F Wildcat flying over the Pacific near Guadalcanal, Mr. Payne, a major at the time, downed…
No, most cops are not “honorable, valuable public servants”
Daniel Payne writes in The Federalist that We Need Police Reform. He is absolutely correct but he makes the typical and reflexive assumption that the majority of cops are just doing their jobs and are not part of the problem. Wrong. The job of a police officer is to uphold the laws and arrest those…
Behind Enemy Lines
Well, as some of you might guess, J.J. Sefton’s not my real name, though since November of 2008, I feel more and more as if I’m in a prison. I live in Manhattan, my significant other is a professor at a major institution of higher learning and, though I love her with every fibre of my…