by Didact | Mar 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
It doesn’t matter how many times the gun-grabbers try to argue otherwise- it turns out that letting citizens arm themselves is actually good at reducing crime: This week, the FBI issued a report comparing the numbers of violent and...
by Didact | Mar 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
… and the CAGW crowd are still idiots: There is no scientific evidence that human activity is causing the planet to warm, according to Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, who testified in front of a Senate committee on Tuesday. Moore argued that...
by Didact | Mar 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Recently a minor kerfuffle erupted between two well-known bloggers for the Daily Telegraph over the precise ideological nature of the Nazis. On the one side you have Daniel Hannan, who claims that the ideological roots of fascism and Nazism lie well and truly on the...
by Didact | Feb 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
You can’t even get spaced if you’re a Muslim, according to the UAE’s government: The United Arab Emirates issued a religious law Thursday banning Muslims from manning a spaceflight voyage to Mars. Starting in 2024, Dutch...
by Didact | Feb 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
I have a fairly (un)healthy contempt for the Obarmy administration’s general cluelessness about most things in general, but when it comes to domestic energy production, I find myself wondering if anyone who works for the current Executive branch, from the...
by Didact | Feb 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything. — G. K. Chesterton Among the many- far too many- books that I find myself reading at any given time, one of the most interesting,...
by Didact | Jan 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
Uh… it does? As mentioned in my review of David P. Goldman’s book, How Civilisations Die (and Why Islam is Dying Too), the author, better known as the online conservative columnist Spengler, peppered that same book with a series of thought-provoking...
by Didact | Jan 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
Not too long ago I wrote a post about free trade and I mentioned something in passing that I think needs some elaboration. I stated that India followed openly socialistic policies designed to produce self-sufficiency in most basic goods and services from the time of...
by Didact | Jan 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
The next few years (or decades) could be very, very cold: The Sun’s activity is at its lowest for 100 years, scientists have warned. They say the conditions are eerily similar to those before the Maunder Minimum, a time in 1645 when a mini ice age hit,...
by Didact | Jan 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Normally I rather enjoy Cracked.com’s highly irreverent and thoroughly offbeat commentary on issues large and small. Recently, however, they published a list that purported to show how hard life is for women in the military, and I have to say that I got more...
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