Why police may not act on tips
After the recent tragedy in Florida, one question I’ve seen raised numerous times can be boiled down to this: why did the FBI and local police not act on ...
Category: Rights
As we leave 2017
One lesson all of us should learn ahead of this Christmas given everything that’s happened politically in 2017 and also 2016: RIGHTS limit how the governm...
Making decisions
Recently came across this gem from Occupy Democrats Logic on Facebook: This is yet another of the many contradictions with regard to the left and standing laws....
Smokers can never be considerate
Let’s see, where to begin — and this is coming from someone who grew up around a smoker that quit 20 years ago this coming January: 1. The root word...
Revisiting Brock Turner
There’s a big reason we don’t have “justice” in the United States: justice is not objective. It’s entirely subjective. What is ...
Violence as speech
A disturbing trend has taken root in the United States and much of the Western world. And it is the redefinition of speech by certain individuals perceived to b...
Limiting the exercise of rights, and the risks of freedom
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitu...
Regarding the Brock Turner case…
Defending principles is extremely difficult. But necessary. On this blog and in other venues, I’ve defended the outcomes of the Casey Anthony and George Z...
Doxing anti-vaxxers
If you click on the “Vaccines” category for this blog, you’ll find two other articles preceding this one. Vaccines is one topic that probably ...
Revisiting due process and firearms
Perhaps my expectations are too high. I don’t think they are. Just as I would expect a programmer to understand the fundamental concepts of the languages ...