Q: I noticed that the Daily Dose of Reason seems to be a mix of psychology and political commentary, as opposed to your Life’s a Beach column. I was wondering if there was a particular reason you do this as … Continue reading
It’s Columbus Day. Christopher Columbus discovered America — for the free and civilized world. You can cry “Oh, the poor Indians!!” all you want, but America was not a habitable place until Western civilization got there. Christopher Columbus led the … Continue reading
Leaving aside that the Nobel Prize is generally awarded to collectivists and socialists only, it’s still amazing that Obama has been awarded it so soon. This man practically walked into the White House, never holding any real political office in … Continue reading
Radio/television host Sean Hannity, advocate of capitalism, and movie producer Michael Moore, advocate of socialism, sat down to debate the merits of capitalism the other night. Michael Moore began by saying he’s primarily a Christian, not a socialist or liberal. … Continue reading
Don’t answer your phone — if you don’t want to! There are few things more annoying than someone who answers their phone, and yet is too busy to talk (even for a minute). It’s simultaneous wrongdoing against yourself, and the … Continue reading
“If you quit on school … you’re quitting on your country.” Excuse me? Is President Obama, by saying this to public school children, implying that the purpose of going to school is to serve the state — i.e., “the country”? … Continue reading
I feel for the parents who don’t want their children in public schools to be “brainwashed” or otherwise exploited by the politician-in-chief, who at least originally planned to give a speech calling on children to support his policies. However, these … Continue reading
Did it ever occur to anyone that maybe Senator Ted Kennedy felt guilty — for being born rich (given his hatred of the wealthy); for killing an innocent woman in a reckless accident and then running away from it; for … Continue reading
Aren’t liberals, for all their socialism, at least good for defending the right of people to be free from religion? No, they don’t even deserve credit for this. Liberal politicians resent the threat of competition. Religion is a threat to … Continue reading
It’s said–correctly–that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, all the while expecting different results. What’s the word for proposing to do more of the same and pretending it’s different? That’s what our present crop of politicians … Continue reading
We keep hearing about transportation accidents — even fatalities — because people are compulsively texting. There’s something deeply wrong with a compulsive need to stay in touch. It suggests an unwillingness that has become an “inability” to be comfortable with … Continue reading
The biggest addiction in America today is Big Government. It costs trillions of dollars–and counting. It’s sacrificing the economic well-being of future generations with deficit-spending not yet seen in human history–not to mention the coming inflation for the present generationn; … Continue reading