Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 72
July 7, 2015
Call Northside 777
A journalism noir starring Jimmy Stewart as the crusading reporter who frees an innocemnt man while arguing with his editor, smoking, drinking, and walking the streets of Chicago.
July 3, 2015
What is the state���s role in marriage and the family?
The family has been changing in the United States for decades, partially because of misguided government policies. Now, same-sex marriage changes the family fundamentally. State and federal legislators should take a serious look at the state���s role in marriage and family.
June 30, 2015
The Best of Mike Royko: One More Time
If you���re looking for a grand overview of Mike Royko���s essays, this is a great place to start. It includes his very first essay from September 6, 1963, and provides some of his best works from the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties, ending with his very last column from March 21, 1997, which was, fittingly, about both the Cubs and Sam Sianis of the Billy Goat Tavern.
June 25, 2015
Democrats ���oppress��� black voters��� by killing them en masse
Over more than a century, Democrats throughout the United States have sought to glorify the Confederacy, from the battle flag to erecting monuments to the political leaders of the Confederacy. They have killed to do it. Republicans should work to tear down those monuments to slavery.
Texas 2015
News from Texas in 2015.
June 23, 2015
We the Living
Ayn Rand���s semi-autobiographical We the Living gives us a good look at how people survived in Soviet Russia following the revolution.
June 17, 2015
Being illiberal: Same sex gun sales
If selling a gay couple a wedding cake means a ���christian��� baker participated in their marriage, does selling a gun to a murderer mean a ���christian��� gun store owner participated in murder?
June 2, 2015
Mitt Romney Day 2015
For the 2015 Mitt Romney Day, the award goes to a pundit who worked at a high level in one administration, telling another pundit his opinion doesn���t count because he worked at a low level in another administration.
May 29, 2015
Strangling the iPhone of health care
We have no idea what great improvements in health care we have strangled through our current system of government regulations, subsidies, and tax incentives.
May 27, 2015
The gullible media and the chocolate factory
Journalists, because of their background and temperament, are specially unsuited to report on science.
