Category: Corruption

• America’s Gun Crisis Is Foundational But Fixable – Just Like Chicago’s John Hancock Tower

  We tell ourselves this every day now: no other country has the gun problem America has. Gun violence happens here the way peace and quiet happen everywhere else. It’s the missing guns that make the difference. Part of why our gun problem feels intractable is because we make it that way. It doesn’t have to […]

  A L Katz

  June 9, 2022

  Corruption, Culture, Gun Control, Racism, SCOTUS, Second Amendment, Slavery

  875 North Michigan Avenue, Antonin Scalia, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Chapter 7, Comcast Spectator, Ed Snider, Gun Control, Heller, James Madison, Jerry Wolman, John Hancock CEnter, Philadelphia Eagles, Second Amendment

• Has Anyone Mentioned That There IS NO RIGHT To “Gun Ownership” In The Second Amendment?

  We keep having the same “gun arguments” – more guns vs fewer guns – because we assume those are the only “gun arguments” to be made. That, somehow, over time, we’ve made all the anti-gun arguments there are. Well, I’m here to tell ya that’s bullshit!!! I think there’s one argument staring us in the […]

  A L Katz

  June 8, 2022

  American News Media, Corruption, False Patriotism

  "Keep and bear arms", Antonin Scalia, Bag Bambu, Bill Of Rights, Gun Control, Heller, Right To Own Guns, Second Amendment, Supreme Court, Warren Berger, Well Regulated Militia

• There Simply Is No “It” That “Both Sides Do”

  Even now – as Republicans alone stand in the way of stopping gun violence (yes, a few Democrats stand with them) – our news media insists that in order to solve this crisis, “both sides” have to come down off their high horses! That’s because “both sides do it” brand journalism insists that every argument […]

  A L Katz

  June 8, 2022

  American News Media, Branding, Corruption, Culture, Gun Control, The Nature of Evil

  American Enterprise Institute, Both Sides Do It, Brookings Institution, Climate Denial, Climate Science, CNN, Facts Vs Feelings, False Equivalence, Gun violence, MSNBC, Norm Ornstein, Salon, Thomas E Mann

• Who Are Gun Rights People Soooo Afraid Of? Answer: The Rest Of Us

  What must run through the mind of a grown man who feels compelled to strap a rifle to his body before he feels safe enough to exit his house. And, if he has to run into Walmart to pick up some milk and lard? Or his Viagra prescription? That’s going to require wearing the biggest, […]

  A L Katz

  June 7, 2022

  Branding, Corruption, Culture, Freedom, Gun Control, Magical Thinking, Racism, Republicanism, Second Amendment

  Cowardice, Gun Control, Gun ownership, Gun Rights, James Madison, Keep and bear arms, Luddite, Second Amendment, Uvalde Shooter, Viagra, Walmart, Well Regulated Militia

• Why Is American Christianity So Effin’ Weird?

  Among the eight hundred pound gorillas sitting in the room with us is the one wearing a cross around its neck, demanding its religious freedom. Christianity somehow managed to twist a simple message – “Do unto others” – into the justification for murdering non-adherents. Talk about transubstantiation! The amount of carnage committed in the Prince […]

  A L Katz

  June 5, 2022

  Atheism, Corruption, Culture, Magical Thinking, Racism, Religion, Slavery, Spirituality, The Nature of Evil

  Catholic Church, Christianity, Do Unto Others, L Ron Hubbard, Manifest destiny, Mormonism, Paul The Apostle, Prince of Peace, Proselytization, Road to Damascus, Scientology, Vikings

• We’ve Been Framing The Gun Debate All Wrong: There IS NO RIGHT TO GUN “OWNERSHIP” In The 2nd Amendment

  I’m not sure if anyone’s ever made this argument before. If they did, I’m not sure how we got past it. If James Madison – the author of the Second Amendment – saw us arguing today about the sacred right of gun ownership in America, he’d want to shoot himself in the head. Hopefully, he’d […]

  A L Katz

  June 3, 2022

  American News Media, Corruption, Culture, Gun Control, Magical Thinking, New Ways of Thinking, Racism, SCOTUS, Second Amendment

  enumerated rights, Federalism, Gun ownership, James Madison, Keep and bear, NRA, Originalism, Samuel Alito, Second Amendment, States rights

• “You Can’t Get There From Here” Is Such A “White” Way To Think…

  Every summer, from the time I was six until I was twelve, I went to a sleepaway camp in Naples, Maine called “Camp Skylemar“. I don’t think there’s a Skylemar memory that isn’t happy. I was independent from the womb onward, so, the distance from camp to home (I grew up in Baltimore) didn’t concern […]

  A L Katz

  June 2, 2022

  Corruption, Culture, Gun Control, Magical Thinking, Republicanism, Second Amendment

  Camp Skylemar, Downeast, Gun ownership, James Madison, Keep and bear arms, Maine, Naples Maine, Second Amendment, Sleepaway Camp, Uvalde, Well Regulated Militia

• Why Isn’t “Mandatory Gun Insurance” A Thing?

  There’s a great line in the movie “Usual Suspects”: “The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing mankind that he didn’t exist”. As the devil would surely know, if he existed, the very best place to hide is right in plain sight. It’s the last place anybody will look for ya. Cars were designed […]

  A L Katz

  May 30, 2022

  Branding, Corruption, False Patriotism, Freedom, Gun Control, Rule of Law, Taxes, Team Biden, The Nature of Evil, Treason

  "The Usual Suspects", Daniel Defense, Design Specs, Guns Don't Kill People…, Hide In Plain Sight, Insurance, Remington, Rule of Law, Sandy Hook, Second Amendment

• Guns And Cowardice

  Picking up a gun is never neutral. The mere act of picking it up (guns being death machines BY DESIGN) will cause one of two reactions: a feeling of power or a feeling of horror at all that power. The power in your hands is very real. It’s Life or Death. Literally. Who would want […]

  A L Katz

  May 30, 2022

  Corruption, Culture, False Patriotism, Gun Control, Magical Thinking, Racism, Second Amendment

  Adam Lanza, Bullying, Cowardice, Death Machines, Gun Control, Gun lockers, Kyle Rittenhouse, Life v Death, Nancy Lanza, Responsible Gun Owner, Sandy Hook, Second Amendment

• Theoretical Red America v Theoretical Blue America – Where Would YOU Want To Live?

  Here’s a thought experiment the whole family can play. Let’s pretend that we really could divide America into two countries – a Red America and a Blue America. And let’s suppose that we made it possible for every American to choose which America they wanted to live in – Red America or Blue America and […]

  A L Katz

  May 29, 2022

  American Exceptionalism, Corruption, Culture, False Patriotism, Magical Thinking, Racism, Rule of Law, Second Amendment, Slavery, The Nature of Evil

  abortion, Bipartisan, Blue America, Corruption, Equal Rights, Federalist, Level Playing Field, Property Rights, Red America, Rule of Law, Slavery, UBS