…able of accepting or rejecting. Children, on the other hand, are much more compliant. They don’t yet have the full conceptual capacity to be otherwise, at least in most cases. What does it say about an ideology that its proponents require the blind obedience, honest ignorance and/or lack of intellectual development of children in order to sustain itself? None of this is relevant to our present leadership in America. Our president insists that it’s… Continue reading →

…barbers working there were properly licensed, and all of the work stations complied with state regulations. Two days later, even though no violations had been discovered and even though the DBPR is authorized to conduct such inspections only once every two years, the inspectors called again, this time accompanied by “between eight and ten officers, including narcotics agents,” who “rushed into” the barbershop “like [a] SWAT team.” Some of them wor… Continue reading →

…e used to be a saying that a law-and-order conservative was a formerly soft-on-crime liberal — who had recently been mugged. The idea was that the tendency to not hold criminals responsible for their actions disappeared as soon as one was confronted with the hard reality of a gun in one’s face. I can’t help but think of this as I watch the hapless mayor of New York City respond to the latest attack on police (again in Brooklyn, just last night.) “… Continue reading →