I live in the UK, the home of the Bill of Rights and the Magna Carta, the mother of parliamentary democracy. But those days seem long gone when police knock on your door to arrest you for an X post.
First Amendment Blues Read Journal Article
The EU and European nations should work on establishing a relationship with the new leadership in the White House and on Capitol Hill so as to be able to influence the outcome of the greatest geopolitical upheaval of our time.
Europe Sleepwalks into Irrelevance as the U.S. Ascends Read Journal Article
When the history of our time is written, this period will be a case study for students of global corruption, classical tragedies, and mass psychosis, and we’ll be used as an example of what humans must never do again.
Our Last Innocent Moment Is Our First Step Forward Read Journal Article
While not easy, should the political will be mustered, the process of breaking the stranglehold Big Pharma has on us would be surprisingly simple. Six changes in Federal law – four repeals of existing law, and two new pieces of legislation – would go a long way toward reining in and even reforming Big Pharma.
Six Simple Steps to Pharma Reform Read Journal Article
The puppycide movement made a good effort. The ACLU took it one step further, situating violence against our pets within the scope of the militarization of policing. While the ACLU was directionally correct, policing is downstream of something more fundamental.
Peanut and Puppycide Read Journal Article
A goal of $2 trillion of budget savings is crucial to the future of Constitutional democracy and capitalist prosperity in America. The Federal budget threatens to become a self-fueling financial doomsday machine. So more power to Musk and Ramaswamy.
How to Cut $2 Trillion of Fat from the Federal Budget Read Journal Article
Unless their advice regarding the withdrawal of the vaccines is heeded, we could face the dystopian prospect of a world which – like the fictional one in Gattaca – is riven into two irreconcilable groups, the ‘vaccine valids’ and the ‘vaccine in-valids.’
Gattaca’s Warning against Vaccine Passports Read Journal Article
The good will be better able to fend off wickedness if they grow more competent in understanding how words (information, hate) are being weaponized by wicked elites. We grow our competency by applying sound moral philosophy to such matters.
A Diagram of Elite Wickedness Read Journal Article
Phrases like the Latino, black, or Asian-American vote are increasingly meaningless. This can only be good for the long-term health of American democracy, contrary to the hysterical warnings of its imminent collapse should Trump win.
Trump’s Multiethnic Winning Coalition Read Journal Article
In a landmark decision in federal court, after a hung jury in the first hearing, the second jury found in favor of fired BART workers who had sued their employer after termination for filing vaccine mandate religious exemption applications.
Many of the early appointments represent the coming together of MAGA, MAHA, and DOGE, the fulfillment of decades of cultivation of disparate groups of dissidents who had not previously realized their common interests and common enemies.
The Revolution of 2024 Read Journal Article
This man whom I thought a giant in the world of Critical Thinkers is shown to be a political Tribalist. It is the triumph of Postmodernism where nothing of real substance matters, only ideology and tribal allegiance.
Malcolm Gladwell’s Need for Critical Thinking Read Journal Article
