We can talk, discuss, or rationalize about crime rates in red cities & states versus blue cities & states, but the bottom line is that criminal activity in general tends to vary inversely with the risk of punishment, it's no more complicated than that. It...

Perhaps I’m beating a dead horse, but whenever I hear a liberal quote the NY Times I cringe, because to say it simply, the NY Times is not an honest purveyor of the news.  Yet the Times has long been considered the ‘newspaper of record’ in the United States and for...

Classical liberalism as embraced by great thinkers such as John Locke, Adam Smith & Thomas Jefferson, is a political tradition and a branch of liberalism that advocates free market and laissez-faire economics, civil liberties under the rule of law, with special...

Allow me to begin today’s blog with what may or may not be an obvious fact, i.e., that the readers of this blog all have above average intelligence.  But creating interesting posts  for bright and perspicacious people can be a challenge.  Fortunately, I happened upon...

Many conservatives like myself don't want Trump to run in 2024 because even though they like his policies and his ‘tell-it-like-it-is’ demeanor, they also believe the chaos he brings to the table just isn’t worth it.  Meanwhile, it’s also fair to ask, prior to the...

There was a time when democrats believed in pluralism, open-mindedness, tolerance, personal freedom, fighting for the downtrodden, a higher minimum wage, women’s equality, a colorblind society, free trade, abortions that were ‘safe, legal and rare,' were insistent...

Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, The Emperor’s New Clothes is a childhood favorite that bears an uncanny resemblance to 21st century America.  While the ruse is elaborate, the metaphor needs no interpretation.  At the same time, one of my favorite pundits, Judd...

Woke ideology is leftist ideology, which hopefully is becoming more apparent to Americans.  And many conservatives tend to equate wokism with socialist or communist ideology, so I thought it would be interesting to draw an economic comparison among the three (as best...

A dear friend and fraternity brother of mine has asked me where I get my ideas for my posts.  I told him that most of the time a thought just pops into my head, and I write.  But today's post was inspired by Dennis Prager, a voice of reason in an increasingly...