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Latest Articles: Opinions/Editorials
Crime and Consequence in America – A Creative Depopulation Methodology
Post Date: 2023-05-07 02:09:53 by Charles_Byrd
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In 2023 we house about 2.2 million inmates who sit idle while taxpayers foot the bills. Click for Full Text!
On Tucker. . .
Post Date: 2023-04-28 07:41:21 by Charles_Byrd
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Everyone knows about Tucker Carlson having been summarily fired – let’s use honest language – from his gig over at Fox News, where he had the most successful show of its kind on network TV. That a hugely successful show was cancelled – which will cost Fox ratings, viewership and money – speaks volumes about what drives corporate policy in these latter days. It is of a piece with Stellantis – the corporation that owns the Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep and Ram truck brands – cancelling the hugely successful Hemi V8 that was the chief reason people bought Dodges, Chryslers, Jeeps and Ram trucks. To be replaced by battery-powered devices few people want. Click for ...
Grice’s Maxims: Rules for Effective Conversation
Post Date: 2023-04-28 06:39:18 by Charles_Byrd
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For most of us, conversation is an intuitive, passive practice. We’re used to the contours of natural speech and writing, and we often make contributions to everyday interactions almost without thinking. Our habits of communication can come as natural as breathing. But when communication breaks down, there’s always the question of where things went wrong. How did we manage to confuse others when trying to convey key information? Or how did a friendly debate turn into a shouting match? With how important conversation and communication are to our lives, it’s surprising how little we think about them. But before we get to the point where communication goes sideways, a set of ...
The dastardly difference between 'equity' and 'equality'
Post Date: 2023-04-27 00:20:45 by Charles_Byrd
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Liberals sounding the clarion call to embrace diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and Black Lives Matter (BLM) have demonstrated some glaring missteps in how eagerly they support such initiatives or in their understanding of the application of the ideology itself. The difference between "equity," as delineated in DEI, and "equality," as delineated in our Constitution, must be understood. Click for Full Text!
In KC, a real racist killer faces trial
Post Date: 2023-04-27 00:04:04 by Charles_Byrd
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Deep in his Kansas City jail cell, Frederick Demond Scott has got to be a little envious. After threatening to "kill all white people" and making a good start on his boast, the 20-something Scott hasn't gotten 1/100th of the notoriety heaped on his fellow Kansas Citian, 84-year-old Andrew Lester. Click for Full Text!
There is Cosmic Wisdom in this Simple Question
Post Date: 2023-04-24 17:27:35 by Charles_Byrd
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My late father was what you might call a secretly brilliant country boy. “Rick” was a big fat man with a salt-and-pepper beard and a baritone voice. He loved to fiddle with cars, so he wore grime-stained clothes. When he got angry, all manner of colorful things flew out of his mouth. There was no mistaking him for a doctor, lawyer, or college professor. Click for Full Text!
The American Dunning-Kruger Epidemic (Or Why Ignorant People Are So Sure They’re Right)
Post Date: 2023-04-23 01:40:42 by Charles_Byrd
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It’s time to address an epidemic in the United States. It’s one that could be deadly, particularly to liberty. It’s an epidemic of Dunning-Kruger. It’s why ignorant people are so certain that they’re right. Click for Full Text!
Review: Endangered Documentary Exaggerates Threats to U.S. Journalists
Post Date: 2023-04-22 01:18:25 by Charles_Byrd
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In Belarus, the government imprisons journalists for covering opposition politicians. In Mexico, more than 100 journalists have been murdered since 2000; nearly all those cases remain unsolved. In the United States, a British reporter is unnerved by encounters with hostile Donald Trump supporters. One of these things is not like the others. In the HBO documentary Endangered, directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady nevertheless present them all as evidence of the hazards that reporters and photographers face today, even in "democratic countries where freedom of the press has historically been considered a 'given.'" Click for Full Text!
The Screen of Gyges
Post Date: 2023-04-22 01:16:12 by Charles_Byrd
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Digital media allows us to create our own brands. We select snapshots of our lives to maintain an image of ourselves we want others to see, though it is sometimes a simulacrum of who we are. Ordinary people armed only with smartphones can gain millions of followers. Like some supernatural gift that confers new powers, we can abuse these tools and lead us to distort our very identities. Click for Full Text!
Online Security Concerns Shouldn’t Enable a Surveillance State
Post Date: 2023-04-18 01:59:33 by Charles_Byrd
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At the 2012 London Olympics, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, crafted the message “This Is For Everyone.” And at that time digitized opportunities felt limitless. Now, a little more than a decade later, that message might read “This is for Everyone – Pending Oversight and Approval.” Indeed, tech accountability proposals and high profile hearings with Silicon’s finest were plentiful last year and this year shows no signs of slowing down. Governmental officials of both parties have proven to have a never-ending interest in meddling in online anonymity, as the recently proposed RESTRICT Act shows. Click for Full Text!
Building a New Right-wing Coalition to Save America
Post Date: 2023-04-14 03:13:05 by Charles_Byrd
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America was born out of a War for Independence. If we want to reclaim our country, then we must think of the current political struggles in which we’re involved as a second war for independence. And, as in any war, strategic thinking is crucial to victory. Click for Full Text!
How To Fail at Zoning Reform
Post Date: 2023-04-14 03:03:52 by Charles_Byrd
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In August 2022, the Gainesville, Florida, city commission narrowly voted to eliminate single-family-only zoning and allow the construction of four- unit homes on all residential lots. In January 2023, a new city commission celebrated its first day in office by narrowly voting to repeal the fourplex legalization. That quick reversal represented a stunning rebuke of "yes in my backyard" (YIMBY) housing reforms. It provided a valuable lesson: Even modest zoning reform is political and requires political thinking. Click for Full Text!
We Can do Well Without Left's Guardrails on Political Satire
Post Date: 2023-04-04 22:07:29 by Charles_Byrd
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The internet satire site Babylon Bee is a particular target of the of the censorship apparatchiks at Twitter. First of all it’s funny, which grates on the Twitterati’s already frayed nerves, and for a satire site, the Bee’s predictions are turning out to be surprisingly accurate. Click for Full Text!
The IRS Makes a Strange House Call on Matt Taibbi
Post Date: 2023-04-01 02:40:43 by Charles_Byrd
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Democrats are denouncing the House GOP investigation into the weaponization of government, but maybe that’s because Republicans are getting somewhere. That includes new evidence that the Internal Revenue Service may be targeting a journalist who testified before the weaponization committee. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent a letter Monday to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen seeking an explanation for why journalist Matt Taibbi received an unannounced home visit from an IRS agent. We’ve seen the letter, and both the circumstances and timing of the IRS focus on this journalist raise serious questions. Click for Full Text!
Intimidation of Matt Taibbi right out of IRS playbook
Post Date: 2023-03-29 21:50:17 by Charles_Byrd
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Quelle coincidence! On the very day media apostate Matt Taibbi was testifying before Congress on the weaponization of intelligence, an IRS agent visited his New Jersey home and left a note telling him to contact the agency. Who knew the IRS made house calls? Reportedly, the IRS rejected Taibbi's 2018 and 2021 tax filings due to identity theft issues, but the home visit was the first Taibbi had heard of the problem. Click for Full Text!
Loving the Unlovable
Post Date: 2023-03-25 06:49:24 by Charles_Byrd
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Pro-life pregnancy centers may be a best-kept secret in America. But even more unknown are the hundreds of maternity homes, many that provide desperately needed help on a level that may surprise you. The false accusation is well known. “Anti-abortion people only care about the fetus. They don’t support women or the baby after delivery.” Click for Full Text!
Liberalism Needs No Enemies
Post Date: 2023-03-24 00:15:45 by Charles_Byrd
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In his instructive political fable, The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale, George Leef writes, “Liberalism is the one philosophy that requires no enemies… It minimizes conflict and calls upon people to resolve whatever problems arise through peaceful means.” By liberalism, Leef refers to the 17th-century movement that began to free individuals from entrenched interests, “from the constraints of the powerful institutions that dominated their lives—the interests of monarchs and church leaders and guilds.” Click for Full Text!
“Driving”…
Post Date: 2023-03-21 18:51:35 by Charles_Byrd
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H.G. Wells wrote his novel, War of the Worlds, in 1898 – when a “driver” was someone who drove horses, as in commercially. In italics for a reason. Click for Full Text!
The Sun Rose Anyways
Post Date: 2023-03-21 18:37:17 by Charles_Byrd
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When my kids were younger, shifting seasons carried a certain excitement. It meant new routines, an altered landscape, or digging through hand-me- downs in storage bins, with fall’s cooler air holding the greatest promise of change. Crisp skies, glowing leaves and the sounds of a football game— all seemed to charge my home with uncommon zest. For the past couple of years, though, I’ve struggled to feel that old excitement. Our world isn’t changing, except for the worse, it seems. Its news obscures the blooming visuals of nature’s happier alterations, even as the weather teases us with spring’s warmth and impending arrival. Click for Full Text!
E Verify is BS
Post Date: 2023-03-19 16:12:07 by Charles_Byrd
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The systemic attack and unrestricted warfare designed to abolish the United States and diminish the human population has many facets. Biological warfare, computer elections, supply chain attacks, dismantling energy supplies, food shortages, inflation, the surveillance police state, and a centralized digital bank currency, are just a few aspects of this all out assault. A virtual invasion via unfettered illegal immigration is also an important element to this campaign of asymmetrical warfare. Let’s hone in on the illegal immigration issue. Of course, this issue can simply be addressed by protecting our borders. Red flags went off shortly after the 911 attacks because instead of ...
Big Government is to blame for Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse
Post Date: 2023-03-17 02:42:56 by Charles_Byrd
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President Ronald Reagan said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language were “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Well, he’s been proved right once again, this time by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The bank’s failure — the second-largest in U.S. history — was a direct result of its own gross mismanagement, combined with a series of well-intentioned government interventions run amok that created the conditions for its catastrophic failure. Click for Full Text!
The Silicon Valley Bank Bailout
Post Date: 2023-03-14 01:01:04 by Charles_Byrd
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The Treasury and Federal Reserve stepped in late Sunday to contain the financial damage from Friday’s closure of Silicon Valley Bank, guaranteeing even uninsured deposits and offering loans to other banks so they don’t have to take losses on their fixed-income assets. This is a de facto bailout of the banking system, even as regulators and Biden officials have been telling us that the economy is great and there was nothing to worry about. The unpleasant truth—which Washington will never admit—is that SVB’s failure is the bill coming due for years of monetary and regulatory mistakes. Click for Full Text!
Bringing Equity to All Fastest Way to Tyranny
Post Date: 2023-03-08 21:49:26 by Charles_Byrd
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Abraham Lincoln is credited with cogently observing, "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." The weapon in plain sight that could well achieve Lincoln's dark, prophetic outcome? Click for Full Text!
Julliard Cancelation Case Has a Soviet Twist
Post Date: 2023-03-07 19:08:44 by Charles_Byrd
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In December, a German music magazine called VAN published claims that Robert Beaser, a professor at Juilliard since 1993 and chair of its composition department from 1994 to 2018, committed non-tactile sexual harassment against female students and offered assistance with professional advancement in a quid pro quo for possible romantic relations. Beaser’s late colleague Christopher Rouse, who died in 2019, was posthumously accused of similar conduct, and his living colleague, the composer John Corigliano, is alleged to have adopted a discriminatory policy of not working with female students. Click for Full Text!
To AI, or Not to AI
Post Date: 2023-02-24 02:05:17 by Charles_Byrd
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Americans allegedly believe in justice. Our founders deemed the concept of justice as necessary for the preservation of our republic; defined as a free and just society, where preserving liberty and property was the only legitimate role of government. Consider our current system of justice, judgment by our peers. Trial by jury! Where information asymmetries should be eliminated or mitigated by the pre-trial discovery process. Where only facts are considered evidence. Where we can face our accuser, advocate on our own behalf, and explain any mitigating circumstances. And appeal, if we can prove there were procedural flaws Click for Full Text!
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