history

Tim Kaine: historical ignoramus

2020-06-20

Senator Tim Kaine apparently believes that slavery didn’t exist before it was invented by white American colonists. As far as roads, aquaducts, or tiled roofs, and whether they too existed in the Roman Empire, Kaine had no comment.

free speech

Civil rights leaders want MORE corporate censorship

2020-06-02

Civil rights leaders are upset that Facebook isn’t censoring Trump enough. They seem not to understand that the speech that needs the most protection is the speech that offends – for the obvious reason that it will be the speech that is most often assailed.

social justice

A modest "reparations" proposal

2020-06-01

Robert Johnson, former owner of BET and a black man who has done just fine under evil American capitalism, wants $14 trillion for slavery “reparations”: […] “Wealth transfer is what’s needed,” he argued. “Think about this. Since 200-plus-years or so of slavery, labor taken with no…