Lost causes
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] I was a child in Alabama at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. One day in 1961, a bus…
Deception & Misdirection
What heroes are made of
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] When the writer Lillian Hellman was buried, America's elite turned out for her funeral. Katherine Graham, chairman of the board…
You’re what you say you are, except when you aren’t
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] “I was born a poor black child.” Steve Martin (as Navin Johnson), The Jerk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtmi4Nc-3dE ) The…
Redefining bigotry / Don’t mention badminton!
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] People with Asian ancestry have to be careful when they fill out their college applications. As noted by the Boston…
Trust no one
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were…
What’s in a name (“rightwing” “fundamentalist”)
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] In public policy, one the major sources of error is taxonomy. Taxonomy (or systematics): Classification into categories based on presumed…
Kingdom of the Screwdriver
For a while yesterday, many on the Left were jubilant at the shooting (falsely reported, it turned out) of George Zimmerman, a Latino who, one day in 2012, dared defend himself…
Hillary, who’ll make the presses run on time
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] Last week, Hillary Clinton, whom today’s elites see as the Leader for the Future, spoke at Columbia University, where they…
Hell breaks out in Baltimore, plus: What Farrakhan believes
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] In the wake of the death in police custody of a man named Freddie Gray, all hell’s breaking out in…
Global Warming: 25 years of this nonsense
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] Perhaps you’re detected a weariness in my authorial voice when I write about Global Warming theory. There’s a good reason…