Tolerance means allowing others to think and act in ways with which we disagree. As long as they are not violating your rights, then “tolerance” means hands-off, live and let live. In the last few weeks, we’ve seen Democrats show…
Tag: politics
Blaming Gun Owners
What do most of us think about legal gun owners? In theory, legally armed Americans are just like anyone else. In practice, unarmed america views firearms owners with fear and distrust. The news and entertainment media built a false image…
Why the Political-Left Hates Women and Blacks
You can name the stereotypical liberal voting blocks with your eyes closed. For socialists in the US, losing women and minorities as a reliable voting block would be like California leaving the union. The political support for Democrats is hanging…
Magical Thinking
“In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest politician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance.” Eric Ambler, A Coffin for Dimitrios When a…
Assault Speech and Hate Weapons- the media spin that would make Orwell proud
It is dangerous to let other people do our thinking for us. We seem certain we can define “hate speech”. We’re convinced that “assault weapons” are bad. Both terms have been manipulated by politicians and the media to mean anything…
Gun Control in Florida Costs Lives
I re-watched the news coverage of a murderer’s attack on a Florida High School. I also read about an armed store clerk in Florida who saved his life by stopping an armed robber. I read about the attack on a…
Lies Democrat Politicians Told and the Media Sold
The Democrat candidates for president are issuing extreme proposals like a bunch of drunks who stayed at the bar too long. Now, the candidates are competing to see who can come up with the wildest schemes as they vie for…
How to Tell That the News Media is Lying to US
Some ecological environments show an amplifier effect where reducing one population lets another population explode. In our intellectual environment today, we see an explosive growth of lying politicians once the media starts lying to us even a little. I’m not…
Bloomberg’s Campaign Changes Politics Across the US
Bloomberg’s money changes everything.. or does it? As Trump did before him, the Bloomberg presidential campaign is going to shake up the Democrat establishment. That is true no matter what happens on election day. Mayor Mike will disrupt the establishment…
Political Corruption and Headline Surfing Leaves Our Children at Risk
Our view of violence is wildly distorted. We don’t know the truth, but I think we can handle it. In the USA today, we think TV shows and the “news” represent reality. They aren’t. Instead of the truth, the news…
Have You Seen “Real” ‘Gun Control’?
I watched them on the news. I saw rich politicians with security details tell me to give up my money and my guns. Some politicians promoted ‘gun control’ after they accepted campaign donations from rich billionaires. These people are saying…
Bad Ideas have Bad Consequences
“There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish. The nation is exposed to foreign violence and domestic convulsion. Vicious rulers, chosen by vicious people, turn back the current of corruption to its…
If Common Sense Is Not Your Forte!
The Democratic Party has a God problem according to Salena Zito in a 2017 article at the New York Post. Remembering the 2012 Democratic Convention draft platform, Zito argued that the Democrats have continued to “push away religious voters by…
Legalized Corruption
“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other.” John Adams Our two-party system is not enshrined in…
The War On Christianity
“My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or absolutely good, as sin or virtue, puts liberalism into a horrible position because it’s founded on no judgment…