Negative Space: Eloi class
- Another victim of climate change: science reporting
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The needs of religious reporting are completely different from the needs of science reporting. Treating climate change as a religion is killing science reporting. If we’re not careful, it will kill science as well.
- Are these stories true?
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We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Reader.
- Beltway establishment goes full Panem on Trumps
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The establishment left is using The Hunger Games as a manual for government. The Ivanka Trump scandal seems less about ethics than about keeping beltway politics safe for political dynasties.
- Catch-22 government
- People who recognize that government is not the right tool to fix all problems, don’t run for political office. The kind of person who wants to be a politician is going to be the kind of person who wants to use government as a hammer on all nails.
- The child sex of the anointed
- There’s nothing so uncommon as common sense in DC, and the Washington Post epitomizes the nonsensical vision of the anointed with Betsy Karasik’s article proposing legalizing sex between high school teachers and high school students “absent extenuating circumstances”.
- The colorful mirror of the anointed
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The Color of his Presidency can’t change the massive government overreach under his watch.
- The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert
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Sad, autumnal reminiscences of power.
- Corpseman resurrected: correcting Betsy DeVos
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The left has once again decided that the way those people speak is ignorant, and that those people are too stupid to hold public office.
- Crony vs. Crony
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The voters will look up and shout “save us!” History will look down, and whisper “no”.
- The dark side of bureaucratic health care
- The death panel comes in many forms, and is a natural outgrowth of health care managed by government bureaucracy.
- The definitional war on satire
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What is satire if it isn’t about current, hotly-debated events and puncturing overblown narratives?
- Democratic District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg: The Star of the Anointed
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A District Attorney tries to use her position and connections to escape arrest for drunk driving. She fires the employee who points out that this is conduct unbecoming a District Attorney, and indicts the governor who argues that this is conduct antithetical to the head of the Public Integrity Unit. The real problem: capital cities attract corruption.
- Democrats introduce mens rea reform
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Congressional Democrats move to extend FBI Director Comey’s Clinton mens rea standard to all Americans.
- Dr. Frank N. Furter: the left’s answer to transgender bathrooms
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The left thinks transgenders are murderous, cannialistic rapists. And they approve.
- Echo House
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Ward Just’s story of three generations of Washington power brokers unknown by pretty much everyone outside of DC.
- Eugenics and Other Evils
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What’s old is new again: unwilling to learn the lessons of the past, those who wish to rule are returning to socialism and cronyism as the only two solutions for all the problems government creates. That is, more government to fix bad government.
- Evil and religion in the modern media
- The press betrays its religion in its choice of news sources.
- False positives, the Internet, and the grievance media
- The ability of the modern mass media to search the entire population ensures that most stories are wrong.
- Government oxymoron: anti-corruption laws
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We can’t pass laws to reduce corruption. To reduce corruption we must reduce laws.
- GU24: Government-enforced energy-wasting lamps
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Government is trying to force us not to buy incandescents—and in the process, is forcing us to buy power-wasting bulbs.
- How to counter Trump’s immigration policy
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When reasonable people are untrustworthy, it’s no surprise that voters turn to unreasonable people.
- Intellectuals and Society
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Thomas Sowell details the verbal virtuosity by which the left tries to avoid empirical evidence.
- Intellectuals waive reality
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The left keeps saying strong words and boots on the ground will mean more terrorists. But this is something that can be tested against the real world, and the reality appears to be extremely different.
- Intermediary journalism and disdain for television viewers
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The media relishes its role as intermediary between the plain facts and the interpretation of the facts; they’ve been afraid of losing this position ever since the rise of television.
- The Last Defense against Donald Trump?
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When you’ve dismantled every other defense, what’s left except the whining? The fact is, Democrats can easily defend against Trump over-using the power of the presidency. They don’t want to, because they want that power intact when they get someone in.
- The left says gays are pedophiles
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April is national Child Abuse Prevention Month, and the Left seems to be taking every opportunity to mainstream child abuse. Like every other vulnerable community the Left claims to support, the Left believes that gays and the LGBT community are inferior and criminal.
- Letters to a Young Journalist
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This pocket hardcover is ostensibly a series of letters to a young, but unnamed, journalist. Sort of an anonymous anti-source. Which makes sense, because Freedman is a very conflicted journalist.
- Liberal Fascism
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The story of how the National Socialist German Workers Party and the fascist government takeover of businesses became defined as a conservative movement by socialists and leftists who believe the government should control businesses.
- The Life of Stephen A. Douglas
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Where Abraham Lincoln’s conservative principles made a flawed man better, Stephen A. Douglas’s belief in the responsibility of government elites for managing lesser men made him far worse.
- Mitt Romney Day 2020: Coronavirus Calvinball
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The competition for the Mitt Romney Day award in 2020 became dangerously competitive come March, as contestants worked hard to kill the most jobs, the most small businesses, the most lives. But there can be only one winner.
- Money Changes Everything: Empowering the vicious
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Barbarism empowers the rich, the powerful, the vicious, the strong. Civilization empowers everyone else. Gun control and centralized economies, darlings of the progressive left, have empowered the vicious since the beginning of time. The beltway crowd prefers no competition from people free to barter, or free to defend themselves.
- My Year in Books: 2023
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It’s been a slower year in books than previous ones, but it was still a year of fantasy in the past, in the future, and across time, as well as an unplanned foray into people doing the impossible and changing the world.
- The new barbarism: A return to feudalism
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The progressive left seems to have no concept of what civilization is, and of what undergirds civilization.
- The one true gun law loophole
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The only true gun law loophole is that criminals are willing to break the law. Law-abiding victims are not. Gun laws disarm victims but do not disarm murderers.
- Proposition 3: Slowly chipping away at Austin’s permanent political class
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Texas proposition 3 removes the requirement that state officers join the Austin political class and instead lets them live in surrounding communities—that more closely resemble Texas.
- Reagan’s Lincolnian Revolution
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Reagan provided an alternative to the assumption held by both parties that bureaucracy was superior to individual freedom.
- Red Light Cameras and rock-throwing children
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When the left sees a kid throwing a rock at other kids, they see an opportunity: to stop budding geologists from collecting rocks.
- Religious upbringing study uses odd definition of altruism
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The religious upbringing altruism study is a failure because the researchers failed to define their moral terms. You can’t study altruism and judgmentalism unless you come up with a definition of the terms. Their definition appears to have been “willing to give money to social science researchers”.
- Republicans and America must provide an alternative
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If America does not provide an alternative to the evils of progressivism gone awry in the world, it is lost.
- Should people dismantle their life’s work, to enter politics?
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With someone from outside the political class breaking into the White House, the political class is looking to build some border walls of their own.
- Surviving the anointed
- The squirrels of the anointed don’t actually store nuts for use in crisis; rather, they squander our resources and degrade our ability to survive crises.
- Though the Darkness Hide Thee
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Removing mankind from hymns makes them less inclusive and more self-centered. The new language almost always destroys the universality—the catholicity—of the older language. It also has a tendency to deny the necessity of God’s grace.
- Trump outsmarts establishment again?
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You know, the funny thing is, how lousy most of your lies are. You tell violent lies, you tell dirty lies, you tell scurrilous lies about conservative families. But most of your lies are not very good, are they? Funny that so many smart people can work so hard on lies, and spend all that money on them, and, what do you think it is? It must be the money. It turns everything to crap.
- Trump vs. the Media: authenticity and humility
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A meme running around comparing what President Trump wrote in the Holocaust memorial guestbook to what Senator Obama wrote shows a surprising humility in President Trump.
- Twelve cookies on a plate
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There are twelve cookies on a plate. The left says that they can feed the poor by taking that rich guy’s cookies away, and leaving yours alone.
- Twisted censorship from France
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“I abhor censorship of every kind… unless it goes against the narrative.”
- The Tyranny of the New York Times
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The New York Times joins CNN in its totalitarian views of the use of rules.
- The Vision of the Anointed
- Would you believe that good intentions can defy the law of gravity? If not, you wouldn’t make a good politician in today’s America.
- Voting Nobody in 2016
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You want an election where Nobody is worth voting for? You’ve got it.
- Was Weinstein treated better than Spacey because his accusers were women?
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Both Weinstein and Spacey got a pass for a long time. We know more about Weinstein because he was caught earlier, and that’s it. Maybe it’s past time to drain the swamps of Hollywood, the entertainment industry in general, and similar cultures of deception such as in Washington DC.
- Who killed broadcast TV?
- Broadcast television’s forecast demise may be the result of government experts thinking they know better than the rest of us.
- Why isn’t Bob Filner resigning?
- Because he thinks he can get away with it—and chances are, he’s right. The watchdog media becomes a lapdog media where Democrats are concerned, especially when those Democrats are in contested areas.
- Why the New York Times can’t see 120 million homes
- Why it didn’t occur to the New York Time that the 120 million homes could easily out-donate the 158 top donors.
- You want your party back; so do Trump supporters
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You want your party back? So do Trump supporters. Whether Republican or Democrat, their party is either leaving them or has left them. They want their jobs, their religion, and they especially want their voice back. Trump promises to be that voice.
More Information
- Government is Magic
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“Competence is built on the unhappy understanding that things won’t work because you want them to, they won’t work if you go through the motions, they will only work if you understand how a thing works and then make it work by building it, by testing it and by expecting failure every step of the way and wrestling with the problem until you get it right.”
- The Vision of the Anointed• (hardcover)
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“Few have spent their entire lives outside the vision of the anointed, and virtually no one has been unaffected by it. Understanding that vision, its current impact and its future dangers, is the purpose of this book.” (Thomas Sowell)
