Since last week, when I wrote that it all comes down to Indiana, the situation has become desperate. According to reliable reports, internal polls, which seemed merely shaky when I wrote my piece, have since gone into free-fall. Public polls … Continue reading
I expect to add to this list as the race continues. First Things: Nikabrik’s Candidate National Review: Against Trump National Review: Symposium: Conservatives Against Trump Ten Pro-Life Women: Dear Iowans CatholicVote.org: Not. Trump. Matt Walsh: Dear Christians, If You Vote … Continue reading
As a child, I was a religious fan of Bill Nye The Science Guy’s PBS show. I watched every episode, and, as a result, I didn’t actually need to pay attention in science class until about the middle of 6th … Continue reading
I have long maintained that the Confederate flag should not fly over state capitols. It is the symbol of an enemy power, opposed to the United States. It has no business there. It is starting to come down in the … Continue reading
A couple years ago, I was trying to figure out how best to deal with rape cases. Rape is simultaneously one of the worst crimes that can be perpetrated against an individual and one of the hardest to punish or … Continue reading
A friend asks, “How do I know what news sources are legit? Like, ThinkProgress, for example? Do they suck? I know many sites, but I have no idea which ones are regarded as actually having good information.” This is a … Continue reading
This piece is inspired entirely by Peggy McIntosh’s classic article “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” to which I am immeasurably indebted. I have noticed lately that my liberal-progressive friends have begun casually adopting the tools of gender and race … Continue reading
Fact-checking is a decadent industry. Mainstream fact-checkers at the Washington Post and PolitiFact rate politicians’ claims on multi-point scales ranging from “Pants On Fire” to “The Geppetto Checkmark.” To manage these multi-point scales, fact-checkers must resort to subjective measurements of “relevant … Continue reading
I have been raising the alarm loud and long on my Facebook page over the NSA’s decision to take up the mantle of the surveillance state that the Stasi laid down twenty-five years ago. But I haven’t said much here on … Continue reading
EDIT: Much as I’ve enjoyed writing this post (the quotes especially!), reading the reaction to it (discussion is good!), and digging deeper into the subject (who started this campaign?), it turns out that the subject falls within the parameters of … Continue reading