Money can’t buy happiness But it could buy me a boat, it could buy me a truck to pull it It could buy me a Yeti 110 iced down with some silver bullets…” — Chris Janson, “Buy Me a Boat” The presidency of America’s 45th Commander in Chief will make...
North Korea is a totalitarian state that consistently fails to meet the basic needs of its 23 million people. The United Nations World Food Program says 70% of the North’s citizens did not have enough food to eat in 2016. An estimated 25% of the North’s children are physically...
James Damore, 28, confirmed his dismissal from Alphabet Inc’s Google on Monday, after he wrote a 10-page memo that the company was hostile to conservative viewpoints shaped by a flawed left-wing ideology. The manifesto was quickly embraced by some, particularly on the political right, branding him a brave truth-teller....
Lil Duval has been under heavy scrutiny since his appearance on The Breakfast Club where he suggested in the context of an ill-timed joke that he’d kill a trans woman if he discovered the root of her identity. The comedian hasn’t ducked the controversy and appears to have ramped...
This is one of my favorite Dave Chapelle bits from his Killing Them Softly special. I implore you to take the time to watch the whole 9 minutes if you have not. It illuminates police brutality literally in black and white: During a speech he gave at...
White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci is out after 11 whole days in office. It comes days after “The Mooch” unloaded on former chief of staff Reince Priebus and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in an expletive-laden rant to New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza. This isn’t about Anthony...
In his 2008 campaign, Barack Obama ran on changing healthcare. Why would the public have been receptive to that? Because healthcare sucked before 2010. Prateek Agarwal documents healthcare before ACA. Pre-ACA Pre-ACA, there were three types of private health insurance markets, all regulated by the state: large groups,...
David French explains: There are some “conservatives” who measure success merely by the volume of “liberal tears” spilled on Twitter, and by that measure Trump is a smashing success, but infuriating opponents while alienating the persuadable middle is a poor way to build a political coalition or to prevail...
In >The Nordic Model: Embracing Globalization and Sharing Risks the authors describe the Nordic Model: There is indeed a social and economic system that can usefully be referred to as the Nordic model. Obviously, there are important differences between the economies and policies of the Nordic countries. (The Nordic...
Popular beliefs, and comforting ones for those who want to ignore the perils of fighting white supremacy, are that Colin Kaepernick is not on an NFL roster because he’d be a distraction, doesn’t care about football, doesn’t even want to play football, is not a good player, and hasn’t...