Who Were the Sea Peoples?

Obama: authorizes drone strike that kills 48 out of 50 people in an Afghan wedding party. But happily welcomes the two survivors as "refugees" (fleeing his own policies). The left: "What a great, pro-diversity guy!" Trump: wants to stop attacking countries in order to impose our way of life on them, but thinks it might not be wise to let those two survivors of Obama's murderous foreign policy in the country, since they might be a little ticked off. The left: "Racist! Anti-Muslim!"

What is funny right now is that the left does not even realize that its over-the-top response to Trump's initiatives is driving the 10% or so of the population who could not quite bring themselves to vote for Trump rapidly into the Trump camp. So, for instance, David French, who was so anti-Trump that he considered running as the face of the #neverTrump wing of the GOP, has now authored an editorial arguing how reasonable Trump's executive order on travel was. And I have seen this with a number of other #neverTrumpers: they are now saying to themselves, "We didn't like Trump, but his opposition is over-the-top nuts." Consider, for instance, the travel ban that French discusses above. The hysterical left keeps insisting that it is a "Muslim ban." So if that's what it really is, how did Trump do in his targeting? For instance, in trying to "ban Muslims," how many of the ten nations with the highest Muslim population did he hit? Only...

I was bemused to hear a Christian friend claiming that "the record of liberalism is very good." Well, good in the sense of "gain the world and lose your soul," I guess. Here's is a Christian who understood the real record of liberalism: "The poison West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. however far you when you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empties thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshiping the iron works of their own hands, cut off Earth their mother and from the Father in Heaven." -- C.S. Lewis, That Hideuous Strength

Now Ken B. insists that RU486 only affects the body of the woman who takes the drug, and not the fetus, so it isn't using force against the fetus! It just so happens that the way if affects the woman's body is... surprise!... to make that body reject the fetus, which will then die. So now we have a new way that it is OK with Ken for us to kill him. Ken is standing on the subway platform. You can't push Ken in front of a train: that would be using force against him. But you can shove someone else into Ken, knowing that person will knock Ken onto the tracks where he will be killed. Because, you see, your shove did not affect Ken's body (per Ken)! It only affected the body of the person you shoved. It just so happens that the way you affected the shovee's body resulted in Ken's death! (Of course, you are guilty of whatever charge giving a stranger a shove that doesn't even injure them results in. But certainly you aren't guilty of murdering Ken [a...

My suggestion: significantly raise the limits on legal immigration (perhaps double what it is today?), while also cracking down on illegal immigration. This squeezes illegal immigration on both the supply and demand sides. And a large illegal immigrant population is indeed a problem: it means a large number of easily exploitable, disaffected people.

During your software career, for every hour of challenging, enjoyable programming you do, you will perform two hours of excruciatingly tedious struggles with configuring some new tool you need in order to do the hour of satisfying work.

I have no idea how widespread voter fraud is. Off the top of my head, I'd probably be ready to believe some number between 100,000 illegal votes -- that's only a couple of thousand in each state! -- and a few million. Certainly the number of illegal votes wasn't zero -- no law is enforced that well! Is the true number around 3 million, as Trump has been claiming? I just have no clue: that seems high to me, but really, how would I know, unless I conducted a ton of research into the matter? One thing has struck me as very curious, however: CNN keeps saying that Trump's claim has been " debunked ": But every time I follow one of their links, it just goes to  another CNN story , one that also simply says the claim is false. So, CNN is saying, "We confidently can assert Trump's claim is false! Why? Well, because we asserted it was false earlier this week as well!" Maybe Trump is off by a factor of ten: I don't know. But it would nice to ...