We took a mini-vacation in Miami, Florida and we used the opportunity to attend two days of the Miami Open. We saw five very good ’round-of-16′ and quarterfinal ATP matches – Aliassime; Kyrgios; Anderson (all on the Grandstand court) and
Category: Politics
Politics Defined
Hat tip to Joe K.
Relying Too Much on Stereotypes
Some great comments about relying too much on stereotypes: Most of us have always known exactly what real racism is. It is the intellectual laziness of over-generalizing in either direction. Human beings are neither guilty nor innocent by the light of their
Are Democrats and Republicans the Same?
Update Glenn Reynolds commenting about Howard Schultz running for President: I don’t like Schultz, but it’s amusing to see how much the anti-outsider reaction against him from both parties mirrors that against Trump. The parties’ biggest fear isn’t that someone
Reality and Politics
If we didn’t have information disseminated to us via the internet or over the airwaves from radio and television, what would we really know about the rest of the world around us? I’m willing to wager that we’d wake up
An Indian, a Black, and a Mexican Walk Into a Bar…
The Leftists are so enamored with identity politics, they just can’t help pretending to be part of one of the designated classes of victim-hood. In just the last year or so, there have been three cases of Caucasian Leftists passing
The Cost of Healthcare
The cost of healthcare is out of control. Update I recently read a very detailed book on the various sources of cost in the American healthcare system, “An American Sickness“, which describes all the components and players involved in delivering
What’s that Expression? Get Woke, Go Broke?
What do these events have in common? Dick’s May Close 35 Stores Across 18 States Boy Scouts of America may Declare Bankruptcy If you’re not familiar with the phrase “Get Woke”, it’s the leftist slang to mean that you’re becoming
We Have No King
I very much agree with this viewpoint expressed by Charles Cooke: Irrespective of whether he was a great man or a poor one, George H. W. Bush was a public employee. He was not a king. He was not a
Woman with Children Storming the Border
Does anyone else see any similarities between the Hondurans in Mexico storming the US border, with the Moslems in Gaza storming the Israel border? They both appear to use the same charlatan tactics, and the mainstream media responds in the