Destroying the working class

A capitalist betrays class unconsciousness in writing to Zerohedge on behalf of his employees about the way Obamacare is transforming the working class into the subservient class: My company, based in California, employs 600. We used to insure about 250 of our employees. The rest opted out. The company paid 50% of their premiums for […]

A remarkably short-sighted verdict

It would appear that the jury-packing was more successful on the second go-round, as CJ Grisham was found guilty after only a single juror voted guilty the previous time: The jury in the gun rights trial of Fort Hood Msg. Christopher Grisham has found him guilty of his misdemeanor charge. After just two hours of […]

Mailvox: A European perspective

A Spanish reader weighs in concerning my comments on the different challenges faced by Western civilization in Europe and North America: I have been following your posts for several years and, although I never had an interest in fantasy, I just started reading The Wardog’s Coin. (I figured that since I enjoy so much your […]

Confessions of a Credit Easer

A mea culpa from the manager of the Federal Reserve’s mortgage-backed security purchase program: Confessions of a Quantitative Easer We went on a bond-buying spree that was supposed to help Main Street. Instead, it was a feast for Wall Street. I can only say: I’m sorry, America. As a former Federal Reserve official, I was […]

Rebelling against academic tyranny

A graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison rejects the university’s right to subject him to mandatory re-education sessions. It’s encouraging to note that more and more people are becoming inured to being labeled by the Left and are no longer bothering to engage in the popular conservative appeasement dance of “but I’m not, I’m […]

An astonishing coincidence

It’s still so easy. Golf Pro, aka Tad, mocks the idea that Minnesotans have anything to worry about from the Somali jihadists in Minnesota: I’m positive that comparing Minneapolis to Kenya is a bad idea. They aren’t really the same place, same culture, same institutions, same history. Really, there is no similarity. The good folks […]

Never again

In light of the recent calls for gun control in light of yesterday’s lethal shootings in yet another gun-free zone, I thought it was important to remember this particular fact of history: The official phase of Nazi Germany’s anti-Jewish campaign was opened today with a law forbidding Jews to possess firearms or other weapons. This […]

Why central bankers never learn

Zerohedge reports on India’s central bank digging its hole deeper: With the value of the rupee plunging to new lows, the current account deficit at an all-time high and inflation running at nearly a ten-percent annual clip, India is in serious economic trouble. Indeed many are beginning to wonder whether the country is edging toward […]

Facebook, free speech, and the FBI

Yes, American, you are now officially living in a police state possessed of an all-seeing eye the likes of which even the Soviets and East Germans never managed to achieve: A man says that within hours of making an impassioned post on Facebook, he was being interrogated by police and the FBI. Blaine Cooper, 33, […]

Torturing vibrants

Good intentions or not, that’s what collegiate affirmative action does: Mismatch theory, most recently expounded by Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, is the most powerful critique of affirmative action yet developed, demonstrating empirically that students admitted to academic environments for which they are ill prepared learn less, and are less likely to pursue rigorous majors, […]