Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 73
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.
May 25, 2015
The Tyranny of Clich��s
Jonah Goldberg takes down political clich��s, such as ���violence never solves anything�����and ���I don���t believe in labels���.
May 19, 2015
All the President���s Men
Supposedly written because Robert Redford wanted to base a movie on the book, this is a great memoir of two journalists wondering what the hell was up after a failed burglary on an office in the Watergate Building.
May 14, 2015
The definitional war on satire
What is satire if it isn���t about current, hotly-debated events and puncturing overblown narratives?
May 12, 2015
Government oxymoron: anti-corruption laws
We can���t pass laws to reduce corruption. To reduce corruption we must reduce laws.
May 4, 2015
Learning from alcohol prohibition
If the people against ending drug prohibition had been around in the thirties, we would never have ended the prohibition of beer and cocktails, because of the dangers of pure alcohol and bathtub gin. One of the lessons of the alcohol prohibition era is that we don’t have to go from banning everything to allowing everything. There is a middle ground.
