Quantity v. Quality

Things that are not important are easy to measure.  Those that are important are hard to measure. ~Michie Slaughter As long as the Supreme Court is taking up cases based on imaginary plaintiffs and defendants and no longer requires that plaintiffs have standing (i.e., personally suffered some harm), I thought I would jump on the … Read more

Shoot the Messenger

I am not a member of an organized political party. I am a Democrat. ~Will Rogers In 1980, Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan asked a question which many believe turned the tide in the November election.  “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”  To make sure the answer among a majority … Read more

Whole Lotta Grooming Going On

Last week’s Moms for Liberty convention in Tampa, Florida was a banner occasion for the anti-groomer community.  Among the speakers was Dr. James Lindsay, a self-proclaimed Christian nationalist, who is credited with having coined the term “groomer.”  Moms for Liberty and the parade of candidates for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination quickly jumped on his … Read more

Affirmative Entrepreneurship

Friday, June 30, 2023, will be remembered by those most affected as the day the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) turned its back on those less-advantaged Americans for whom admission to one of the nation’s premier colleges and universities could provide the resources and mentoring by which they have a chance to fully … Read more

Those Exceptional Conservatives

Some sequels are years in the making.  After all, 13 years elapsed between the 2010 premiere of James Cameron’s Avatar and the recent release of Avatar: The Way of Water.  In contrast, it took only four days for the subjects of yesterday’s blog, the three non-hypocritical Supreme Court justices–Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch–to … Read more