DAMN HURRICANES
When my county announced the evacuation order with Hurricane Irma coming on fast, I had the good fortune to be in Illinois teaching a class: had “pre-evacuated,” as it were, and personally escaped the...
LOGICAL REACTIONS
We are hearing a great deal from certain people who were almost killed, and lost friends and classmates, in a horrific mass murder. Their reaction has been to stridently demand that millions of law-abiding...
VETERAN’S DAY, AND A CHURCH ON THE HOMEFRONT
On Veteran’s Day, we pay respects to the Americans who fought in uniform to preserve our nation’s freedom, one element of which is the freedom to protect ourselves and other good people. On this...
AND THE PREDICTABLE BEAT GOES ON
The “town meeting” on CNN that was supposed to be a debate was, as many of us suspected it would be, a monstrously one-sided setup for the prohibitionist viewpoint. It should go down in...
ABOUT RETRAINING POLICE…
A couple of posts back, we had a guest essay by one of our regular commentators. Much of what I’d have said has already been posted by other commentators, so I’ll be fairly brief.
The...