The Rebirth of Responsibility

Featured image by m o n c h o o h c n o m. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. When we outsource our decision making, we also outsource our liberty. When we depend on others to make our decisions for us, we give up our ability to decide what is […]

Take note of what you say…

This election brought out over 148 million votes, a spectacular level of turnout, regardless of how things turn out. Over a 62% participation in our representative republic.

Private Idealism and Public Moderation

In my personal moments, when musing about the various political and philosophical issues that are bubbling in today’s discourse, I often look at issues in two ways…

The Authoritarianism of Compassion

I’ve seen, read, and heard so many people call themselves compassionate on both the left and right. I’ve also seen those same people become vicious, hateful, rage filled monsters toward people that they disagree with, that mostly happening on the left, though I see it on both sides. Compassion is an interesting virtue. Merriam-Webster defines […]

Atop the slippery slope of Critical Race Theory, and how we’ve already started sliding.

If I were to ask you what white supremacy means, can you give me an answer without Googling it? I certainly couldn’t anymore. Something to the effect of the domination of a particular racial group (in this case Whites), over all others. However, today’s definition includes the use of power structures and hierarchies in order […]

This is exactly why we need free speech… and why I’m voting for Trump

Cancel culture, censorship, thought speech, implicit bias, silence is violence, my truth, disinformation, misinformation. What has been happening over the last decade, and particularly over the last 4 years in the “free press” has been both hilarious and frightening. Recently, an article was published in the New York post that has been removed on social […]

Postmodernism and the descent into madness.

Thanks to Fabio Roveron for the featured image. Postmodernism is an interesting field of thought, scary and inherently dangerous, but interesting. Much of today’s political discourse (or lack thereof) is based in this school of thought, and it helps unlock why many who follow the philosophy/religion that has become “identity politics” are unwilling or unable […]

2016 revisited – A Libertarian autopsy.

Thanks to Rob Walsh for the featured image. I have often heard the argument that those who agree with President Trump, or those who voted for and support Trump, are all sorts of evil people. Racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic, ableist, xenophobic, nazis, kkk, white supremacists, fascist, traitors, and deplorable. And these arguments are the […]

What happened to the Right?

I hear so much about the alt-right, particularly in the media. And I hear the conflation of the “alt-right,” (Neo-Nazis, White Supremacist groups, and other pseudo-fascist organizations) with the “right” and “far-right” in today’s dialogue. It is a minor thing, but it is a major thing. There is a notion of “otherness,” involved with political […]

The significance and perversion of belonging

A sense of belonging is an inherent need. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (per Thoughtco.com – also the source of the featured image), “It also includes our need to feel that we belong to a social group. Importantly, this need encompasses both feeling loved and feeling love towards others.” Belonging is an important part of the […]