Playing the electorate as chumps. Confidence men know that their victim — "the mark" as he has been called — is eventually going to realize that he has been cheated. But it makes a big difference whether he realizes it immediately, and goes to the police, or realizes it after the confidence man is long gone. So part of the confidence racket is creating a ... MORE
Black people should not keep accepting excuses. The Washington Post (10/25/2012), in giving President Barack Obama an endorsement for another four years, wrote, "Much of the 2012 presidential campaign has dwelt on the past, but the key questions are who could better lead the country during the next four years — and, most urgently, who is likelier ... MORE
He will be significantly less bad than Obama. Should libertarians like me declare a pox on both major parties’
houses by voting for the Libertarian Party candidate, Gary
Johnson? Or should we opt for the Republican Mitt Romney, who
I think would be significantly less bad than the Democratic
incumbent, Barack Obama? Over the decades since ... MORE
Our political correctness zones. Despite high youth voter turnout in 2008 — 48.5 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds cast ballots that year — levels are expected to return to usual lows this year, and with that the usual hand-wringing about disengagement and apathy among young voters. Colleges and universities are supposed to be bastions ... MORE
Chemicals found in drugs are also elsewhere. When I see a police dog inside a train
station or at a public gathering, I feel safer. I figure it is there to
protect us from explosives, and if it sniffs out drugs along the way,
well, that's against the law, too. But what if it turns out that
the dogs aren't all that good at the job the police are ... MORE
The entitlement states steals from future generations. The election-eve mood is tinged with sadness stemming from well-founded
fear that America’s new government is subverting America’s old
character. Barack Obama’s agenda is a menu of temptations intended to
change the nation’s social norms by making Americans comfortable with
the degradation ... MORE