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Category Archives: Social Commentary
Dog Years
Lengthening them with a new anti-aging drug. Humans come next.
NASA Can’t Go To Mars
It’s essentially illegal. My latest column, about NASA in the movies and in real life, at USA Today.
Why People Hate Hollywood “Liberals”
Movies like “Truth.”
When you’ve lost Vox…
Also, reminder. Mary Mapes, still stupid after all these years.
If Romney Were President
Or if Bush still was:
Democrats in Congress would be calling for hearings and investigations for each transgression: the bombing, troop levels, and drone policy. Chuck Schumer would hold daily press briefings scolding the wreckless president from behind the glasses perched precariously down his nose. Someone would accurately quote Sheila Jackson-Lee condeming the terrible bombing of the “orphanage in Pakistan”.
But Mitt Romney isn’t president, Barack Obama is, so no one cares.
They told me that if I voted for Romney, the president would be bombing innocent people in hospitals. And they were right!
It’s not about principles, it’s about tribalism.
Income Inequality
What Bernie Sanders doesn’t understand about it.
To be fair, of course, I don’t think Bernie Sanders understands anything about anything.
Related: Bernie Sanders and the fixed-pie fallacy. He (like all Marxists) doesn’t understand that wealth is created, or how. He thinks it’s just something to be magically redistributed.
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Unfortunately for the Marxists, the American people don’t think that wealth inequality is a crisis. They don’t think that climate change is, either. It barely makes the list.
[Update a few minutes later]
Dems appeal to “progressives,” not all Americans.
There’s nothing progressive about them. Forced wealth redistribution is the oldest game in the book. Free markets are what are new and revolutionary.
Hillary’s Gun-Confiscation Proposal
…will probably backfire in a big way:
As AP already noted, this is a winning strategy for Clinton in the primary because her base has largely been sold on the idea of things like expanded background checks at the federal level and a national gun registry. (!) How they will react to actual gun confiscation from law abiding owners remains to be seen. But when it comes to the general election, Clinton has a serious storm brewing on the horizon. Regarding a ban on all semi-automatic weapons, including handguns, the public has been consistent in their response for decades. As of last year there was 73% opposition to such a ban, and 63% said that a home was safer if there was a gun in the house.
Those numbers don’t shift when there is a mass shooting. They never do in any significant way. So with all that in mind, I think we need to encourage Hillary to pick up this flag and run with it. In fact, I’m going to go on record as supporting Hillary to be the nominee for the Democrats next year. This is just what the Democrats need and I look forward to her explaining her gun confiscation plans to the public when she debates the eventual GOP nominee.
Yup. And as noted, crime rates, and particularly armed robberies, when up in Australia after the buy-back.
Food Preferences
Yes, I think that, while some people have serious health issues, much of this is just fad.
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I should note that I’m allergic to tree nuts, but it’s never been life threatening, as far as I know. It’s just that if I eat them, the linings of my mouth and throat itch.
One more point. I’m not normally into censorship, but I think that the “Food Babe” moron should be banned from the Internet.
Mark Steyn
Apparently, David Appell is as hilariously illogical as ever. And yes, Big Climate does seem to be a tad misogynistic. But hey, they can be forgiven, they’re just tying to save the planet.
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The problem with Senator Whitehouse’s RICO suit. He has no evidence.
Yes, it seems to be mostly a wild conspiracy theory. And projection.
Related: Katherine Hayhoe has gotten an infinite amount more money from Exxon than I have.
Jim Webb
Thoughts on who the real enemy is.
This demonization of their political adversaries, as Hillary did last night, and Barack Obama does often, is the hallmark of fascists. I disagree with Jim Webb on many issues, but I respect him. I think he’s finding out that he joined the wrong political party.