The Smallest Minority

Here's hoping this post makes it past the Google censors.   “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades...

A recent piece at The American Conservative by Rod Dreher, Joe Rogan World vs. NPR World contains these two quotes: ...NPR sounds like Va...

This blog has been, for me, a seventeen-year exploration of other people's ideas .  If you've been here long, you'll know that...

Another Quora question.  Lots of post inspiration over there.  Here's my answer: I’m 58 years old. That means that in 1974 I was 12. I...

I was asked to answer the question " Is it accurate to say that the left is intolerant of the right's ideas while the right is into...

Today is the 13th annual Victims of Communism Day , a day to remember the people murdered by their own governments in their quest to achi...

I just recently had a "discussion" with someone on FB on the topic of "democratic socialism."  He indignantly left the c...

Today's Electric Car Batteries Will Be Tomorrow's E-Waste Crisis, Scientists Warn Wind turbines kill endangered bird species, elec...

From the comments here many many moons ago when he was still a PhD candidate in Political Science, (and followed this blog) Oren Litwin wro...

In the aftermath of more rampage shootings, Quora has become, unsurprisingly, a hotbed of gun control questions, such as: Why are guns sti...

I finally got around to reading the op-ed linked below on Jordan Peterson. I'll admit right up front that I've read neither of the ...

The immortal words of the comic-strip character Pogo. (Perusing my blog, I noticed that I had a half-dozen started essays that I'd nev...

From Facebook: A couple years ago I was working security at a bar in northern Virginia. I overheard a table of college kids arguing about ...

Okay, this post is about how I can believe in the power of prayer and still remain a small "a" atheist. I am alive today, I am c...

Over at Quora, I answered the question " What do most Americans fundamentally misunderstand about the U.S. Constitution? " That ...

As you may know, I frequent Quora.com. Recently someone asked the question: What are the great ideas of progressivism distinct from liber...

Daniel Greenfield, Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, aka " Sultan Knish " has a piece up on Frontpage Mag entitled...

Third QotD from Hillary Versus America: Knowledge Is Power . Seriously, read the whole thing: All of this points to a basic, obvious truth...

It's been fourteen years now. Go read last year's post .  I have nothing to add.