If it wasn’t clear before, the rule of law is dead in this country. Oh, there are still laws, and you can still be arrested for them, but if you’re part of the political elite, they just don’t apply to you anymore. And there are so many of them, and they are so complex, that […]

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I’ve been on vacation for a few weeks, and one of the things that happened in my absence is that the British voted to leave the European Union. It was a historic vote, and its effects will be felt for quite some time, but in essence it was a victory for small(er) government over yet […]

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President Obama spent half of his recent national security speech dealing with why he doesn’t call the ideology of  the biggest terror threat “radical Islam”. Republicans have noticed that he has refused to use that term for years, and he finally addressed why. But are his reasons reasonable? And why is calling the threat by […]

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The city of Chicago hit something of a record in May of 2016, but it’s not one they’re proud of. If we’re really concerned about what’s going on there, we need to have all the facts at our disposal, and we need to consider that perhaps doing more of the same will only get us more of […]

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If ObamaCare is trying to emulate the European style of health care, perhaps we should look at those systems to see how well they’re doing in providing quality health care. It’s easy to give access to it, but how good is it? And it may be that the controversy over the Washington Redskins football team name might […]

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A study has come out (again; it’s been done twice before) that proves there is racism among police officers. But there is a surprising result of that racism. You’ve no doubt seen the incidents and the resulting protests, and the claims that those incidents are indicative of the system in general. But are they? Do […]

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The “Consider This!” Podcast made it onto the ballot for the 2016 Podcast Awards, thanks to your nominations! Thanks so much for your efforts. We managed to get this show on the slate with some rather big shows, so when voting time comes, we’ll need to really get out the vote. Here’s how it works. Starting […]

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Sure, the US has a lot of debt, but if we really worked at it, paying it off a little at a time, couldn’t we pay it off and be debt-free, avoiding a Dave Ramsey intervention? Actually, the answer is, “No”. It is mathematically impossible, given the size of the debt, how much money there […]

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In a new segment called “Reconsider This”, I’m revisiting the Flint, Michigan water crisis. There have been some good developments regarding accountability over this. While journalists are obsessing over the sole Republican in the chain of command (the governor), others are getting charged or at least looked at, including the Obama administration EPA. Why is […]

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Listener Brandon Klenzendorf asked me in the “Consider This!” Facebook group if the North Carolina so-called “bathroom law” was a similar situation to Georgia, and from the looks of it, and the reaction to it, yup, it’s pretty much the same thing. The only difference is that North Carolina got the law passed. And of […]

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