The secret of getting ahead is getting started. –Mark Twain
Getting Started (Mark Twain)
Category: Daily Dose of Reason
IRS and Benghazi Scandals Get Yawns: Is America Becoming Stupid?
The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it had found no basis for a criminal prosecution over the Internal Revenue Service’s mishandling several years ago of requests for tax-exempt status by political groups aligned with the Tea Party. In 2013, … Continue reading
The Glorious, Untapped Potential of Capitalism
As we propose building border walls and nationalizing what remains of the private economy, banning guns and raising taxes, the one thing that could save America, and the world, is completely bypassed and ignored: authentic capitalism. A reader of my … Continue reading
Joe Biden’s Nerve
Says Joe Biden, when announcing he will not run for President but dislikes the partisan tone in Washington: “I still have a lot of Republican friends, I don’t think my chief enemy is the Republican party, this is a matter … Continue reading
Paul Ryan and the Dysfunctional Republican Party
What does it mean to compromise? When is it right, and when is it wrong? Consider the dysfunction in Washington DC right now. The dysfunction in the Republican Party is widely publicized and well known. Although Republicans control the U.S. … Continue reading
Why Are Threats Against Ben Carson “Off the Charts”?
The Secret Service will give agent protection to Ben Carson and Donald Trump while heavily upgrading Hillary Clinton’s existing detail, a Washington source close to the agency’s plans confirmed to Newsmax. The deployment of agents around Republican candidates Trump and … Continue reading
“Free Stuff”: The Achilles’ Heel of Democratic Socialism
Several weeks ago, Jeb Bush (of all people) managed to hit a nerve with the campaigning Hillary Clinton. Was it about emails or Benghazi? No. It was about the Achilles’ heel of the whole socialist paradigm of her party: The … Continue reading
Mental Health in One Lesson
Serenity now … Serenity how? When you experience an emotion, identify the emotion (to yourself). “I feel [insert emotion here].” But don’t blame the cause of the emotion on some person, situation or thing. In other words: Do not say, … Continue reading
Obama Comes “Clean” About His Narcissism
When Obama first became President, someone I know remarked, “I don’t understand how you can think Obama is arrogant or narcissistic. To me, he comes across as calm, reassuring and self-assured.” If the years since that time have not persuaded … Continue reading
China Shows What PC Looks Like as the Law of the Land
We all know how psychologically oppressive and annoying “political correctness” has become. A lot of people are sick of it, which partially explains the rise of Donald Trump’s candidacy, love him or not. What would it look like if PC … Continue reading
“Only Let Us Hurry and Open the Roads” (Wilbur Wright)
Scarcely ten years ago, all hope of flying had almost been abandoned; even the most convinced had become doubtful, and I confess that, in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that men would not fly for fifty years. Two … Continue reading
Do Hillary Clinton’s Genitals Qualify Her More?
Do genitals determine the qualities you want in a president? Hillary Clinton and her supporters seem to think so. They keep saying, “It’s time to have a woman president.” The reason you’re supposed to support Hillary is because she’s a … Continue reading