The MalaCast

But Thomas Massie isn't.

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“When you read in the newspaper that the government has taken Walter Williams' guns, then you will know that Walter Williams is dead.”

-Walter Williams

‘a whisper

Which Memory will warehouse as a shout.’  -An unpublished poem by Owen Barfield

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” -James Madison

President Trump has been indicted. This spells the dawn of a new era in our politics.

“Socialism is certain to prove, in the beginning at least, the road NOT to freedom, but to dictatorship and counter-dictatorships, to civil war of the fiercest kind. Socialism achieved and maintained by democratic means seems definitely to belong to the world of utopias.” -W. H. Chamberlin

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” -LP Hartley

I discuss the Nashville monster, including the fact that virtually every media headline conspicuously left out. Instead of blaming any leftwing ideology, the media immediately blamed weapons.

America's core values are crumbling. But why so quickly? 

“There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.” -Thomas Sowell

“There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.” -Thomas Sowell

Republicans in the House have passed a parental rights bill. Love it or hate it, you must admit Republicans and Democrats are no "uniparty."

Kamala Harris is reportedly afraid of messing up so she's paralyzed with fear. It's yet another cruelty offered by affirmative action.

"I have responsibility but no power." -Edsel Ford

In November of 2018, David Frum debated Steve Bannon about populism.  It was supposed to be about whether populism was the future, but in reality the debate boiled down to whether the men liked it or not.

The official resolution was "Be it resolved, the future of western politics is populist not liberal."

The idea that boys are socialized to be more aggressive is really one of the funniest blank-slate beliefs, because every parent of boys knows that you spend like 80% of your time socializing them out of aggression. -@wayneburkett

Bridget Phetasy was telling us all to stop whining that lockdowns were awesome in March of 2020. Nay, they were going to make us better people. So what really happened?

The correct response to a bully is not to turn the other cheek. I know that's what we are taught, but in my opinion the correct response to a bully is to punch him back. Game theorists might tell you the solution is to usually retaliate, but mix in the occasional forgiveness.

All the reasons which make the initiation of force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. If some 'pacifist' society renounced the retaliatory use of force, it would be left helplessly at the mercy of the first thug who decided to be immoral. Such a society would achieve the opposite of its intention: instead of abolishing evil, it would encourage and reward it." -Ayn Rand

"The code of competence is the only system of morality that’s on a gold standard." -Ayn Rand

Often I see parents who have no standards for their children. But they are almost surely lying to themselves and would insist that they do. I'll explain.

"If a young black boy cannot dribble well when he comes out to play basketball, no one will cast his problem as an injustice. No one will worry about his single-parent home, the legacy of slavery that still touches his life, or the inherent racial bias in a game invented by a white man. His deficiency will be allowed to be what it is - poor dribbling." -Shelby Steele

“If psychoanalysis had been invented by cavemen, Mankind would still be living in caves.” -Theodore Dalrymple

Normal people sometimes sheepishly preface a truth with “Now I know it’s just anecdotal…” These people haven’t processed the replicability crisis. Your experiences and the studies you and your trusted friends have personally conducted are the best sources you have. 

I annoyed a pink-haired humanist. Which is weird because I'm a human.

“The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.” - Nicolás Gómez Dávila

At a certain point you should graduate from going for what is desirable to going for what you desire.

The left can't help but wokify everybody they like from history. Which means all the good characters end up being irreligious, racially hip, and super-cool with gays and the bad ones are George Wallace.

Children deserve a mom and a dad.

Humanity does not suppress an error without simultaneously erasing several truths. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

I'm reviewing a lousy debate between Bill Kristol (Conservative) and Scott Horton (Libertarian). 

Oct 4, 2021