Author: Eric Scheie

That last post (about what to call the government-created health care fiasco) made me realize the genuinely difficult nature of the rhetorical problem the left faces right now. The country is stuck with a hugely unpopular program, and naturally, the left would like to deny or minimize it, and their natural response would be to come…

Has the term Obamacare suddenly become the racist equivalent of the N-word? MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry suggested the term “Obamacare” and the N-word are interchangeable, claiming both were “conceived by a group of wealthy white men who needed to . . . render [a black man] inferior and unequal and diminish his accomplishments.” Is that…

What happened on December 7, 1941 was one of the defining events of at least two generations as well as the modern age. Today, a lot of young people don’t even know what happened. It’s nice to see that people on Facebook are remembering. I found this: And this: And some great links here to…

From an article by a prison guard titled “7 Horrifying Things You Didn’t Want to Know about Prison“: You probably assume that prison is ordered a little like Dante’s hell and inmates wind up on different “levels” based on the severity of their crime. Nope! If you make it into a federal prison for a…

Obama voter Peggy Noonan shares an inside glimpse of the sort of thinking that goes on in the Obama White House: For four years I have been told, by those who’ve worked in the administration and those who’ve visited it as volunteers or contractors, that the Obama White House isn’t organized. It’s just full of…

A lot of people are upset over the fact that the Obamacare website doesn’t have a payment mechanism, As unbelievable as it sounds, word now comes that the beleaguered ObamaCare website doesn’t have a payment mechanism. And Fox’s Megyn Kelly, for one, isn’t happy about it. In fact, she’s downright ticked off. Kelly was flabbergasted to…

I have seen a lot of fake media stories like the above lately, and the common reaction in the conservative camp is outrage. I think the fact that the left has to rely on fake stories to support their claims (this one involving poverty) is actually a good thing. It’s hardly the only one. I have never known…

I am sorry to see that Bob Dylan is getting sued for racism in France over a remark he made about Croatians in passing during an interview. It’s another reminder of the freedom we still have in the United States that is wholly lacking in most of the world, which many want to take away…

They are on the left, they are incredibly wealthy, and they want to tell their underlings how to live.  An interesting article titled “Silicon Chasm” discusses this wealthy, politically correct elite, and the twisted way in which they believe they are the shepherds and the true benefactors of those who have less money than they…

Reading this article, it’s quite obvious that the dominant philosophy in the War on Drugs is that it’s better to prevent people who need pain relief from getting it than to allow the possibility that it might get to people who really don’t need it to have it. Lugano, Switzerland –- A ground-breaking international collaborative…

Don’t let that turkey get away from you — not even if it tries to turn the tables on you like this: A cute little culture war in miniature, from long ago. Wonderful social commentary. (I might suggest that a better title might have been “Don’t Ax, Don’t Tell,” but the hell with politics!) However,…

I’d hate to think setting people on fire is becoming a trend, but it was only weeks ago that I wrote about a high school kid who was set on fire by a 16 year old assailant who admitted that he was motivated by homophobia. Horrific as the incident was, I figured that the good…

Great. The meddlesome mad scientists are now poised to enable themselves to reprogram our brains: Researchers have known for decades that memories are unreliable. They’re particularly adjustable when actively recalled because at that point they’re pulled out of a stable molecular state. Last spring, scientists published a study performed at the University of Washington in…

I keep reading about the neuroscientist who discovered he was a psychopath, and I’m skeptical. What he discovered was not that he was a psychopath, but that his brain scan was similar to the brain scans of psychopaths. That’s a big difference. The man is so obviously mired in the determinist camp that he is…

Earlier I read about a radical nutjob I’d heard of before who seems to specialize in mainstreaming outrageous and despicable ideas, this one being that all white people should go kill themselves. The way he talks to people said to be in his circle you would think that anyone who disagrees with him is so absurdly…

I try to keep myself informed about current events, but it never ceases to amaze me how much I miss. I was taken aback recently to learn that a very important mover and shaper of public opinion — one Mark Halperin, editor at large for Time Magazine — has discovered the real culprit behind the…

Speaking of malignant Marxist narcissism, I stumbled across a nice little cache of Che Guevara quotes, and I found one that suits our current times: “Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates.  Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service.” Be grateful for your Obamacare! Hear hear! This came right…

A left wing socialist looks at Marx’s personal narcissism, and makes a good case that his personal psychological problems drove his politics and his philosophy: …Marx’s psyche was a volatile mixture of grandiose illusions, anger, and self-hatred. Born a Jew but baptized a Lutheran at age four, the atheistic Marx denied and rejected his Jewish…

A friend (Portia) sent me this, and I suspect it’s true: What the government won’t tell you is that both the Obamacare website source code as well as all the UFO information are tightly locked up in Roswell, NM. MORE: I have also been leaked a photograph which was surreptitiously taken of two men unfortunate…

Someone sent me a link to this video of a pair of really boring airheads. Reluctant as I was to click on it to watch it, watch I did. Yawn. I got tired of them, and grew impatient. Yet, just about the same time that happened, an odd little thing in the video made me…