05/10/23

America doesn’t have a gun problem, America has an America problem

There were two mass murder incidents this weekend. In one, a deranged psychopath shot up a shopping mall. Predictably, the media and Left-leaning politicians blame the gun and call for more restrictive gun laws. The very next day, a deranged psychopath drove an SUV into a bus stop full of people. Predictably, the media and Left-leaning politicians are doing the opposite — holding the SUV blameless and instead decrying the dysfunctional mental health system which let this poor driver down. WTF, do they think we can’t see the hypocrisy?

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12/21/21

Nanny York State shortsightedly pushes for exclusively electric buildings

New York State senator Brian Kavanagh is strutting his peacock feathers about Senate bill S6843A (known as the all-electric building act, or AEBA) that he and his collaborators passed in the state senate which “requires that buildings constructed after 2023 be exclusively electric.” It sounds good on the surface, but it’s actually very shortsighted. Why is it shortsighted? Several reasons come immediately to mind.

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12/4/21

Can “gun safety” defend democracy?

In the week following the Oxford High School shooting in Michigan, the predictable calls for so-called “gun safety” legislation have started to roll in. One can see what a stretch these thinly-veiled attempts to pass unpopular bans on popular and perfectly legal devices are by comparing them, for example, to hypothetical “automobile safety” bans on vehicles that kill people. Let’s delve a bit deeper.

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01/5/19
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The “verbification” of American English

English is like most other natural languages in that it has distinct nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and so on. A noun is not a verb and a verb is not a noun. The language relies on grammar and syntax for its intelligibility. The more frequently people disregard those rules, the harder it is to understand what they’re trying to convey. For this reason, the “verbification” of American English (that is, using nouns and adjectives as verbs) is eroding the English language and the way other countries see us.

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04/30/18
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The Commander in Cheat

President Trump is once again embarrassing the United States with his testosterone-fueled antics. Several women, including Karen McDougal and Stephanie Clifford (better known as porn actress Stormy Daniels), accuse Trump of paying hush money to cover up his infidelities with them during his presidential campaign. Did he really cheat on Melania? Continue reading →

05/7/16
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Liberal media gets its due

This was just too good to pass up. The NRA-ILA reports that the liberal media, which has been calling for so-called “universal background checks” as a prerequisite for exercising one’s constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms, doesn’t feel that what’s good for the Second Amendment goose is good for the First Amendment gander. Journalists are apparently beside themselves that Continue reading →