David Harsanyi
We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists - even when it comes to the model-driven speculative discipline of climate change. And, need it be said, most scientists take great care in being honest, principled and precise.Collection: Trust
In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.Collection: Pet
Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science. That puts me in exactly the same position as most dogmatic environmentalists who want to craft public policy around global warming fears.Collection: Science
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.Collection: Evil
The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.Collection: Mold
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.Collection: Tired
Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.Collection: Political
A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.Collection: Air
The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.Collection: Father
Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."Collection: Children
Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained, and a Pyrrhic victory that in many ways contributed to the end of the Empire.Collection: War
Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.Collection: Levels
Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.Collection: Mystery
Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.Collection: People
I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.Collection: War
'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you.Collection: Country
Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn't the first president to abuse executive power - not by a longshot. But he has to be the first president in American history to overtly and consistently argue that he's empowered to legislate if Congress doesn't pass the laws he favors. It's an argument that's been mainstreamed by partisans and cheered on by those in media desperate to find a morsel of triumph in this presidency.Collection: Party
Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.Collection: Ideas
Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.Collection: Jobs