The Fourth Rail

07/10/2023

I don’t care if someone is trans. I just don’t. As long as they’re an adult who made the choice themselves, I have no say in the matter and so I don’t actually care, as a general rule. If I like you and care about you before, I still will.

07/08/2023

The real minimum wage is always zero. A lot of people forget that.

The minimum wage gets talked about a lot, but most of the people demanding its rise don’t really understand it. They don’t get that no matter how much you decree people have to make, it doesn’t change the math at the business level.

07/07/2023

Environmentalism isn't an awful idea, in and of itself. The problem is that the modern incarnation is absolutely nuts.

Almost everything about the environmental movement is nuts

07/07/2023

I sit down and talk with my friend, Brad Polumbo, all to get a gay man's take on how the LGBT movement has gone off the rails.

This week I'm joined by my good friend Brad Polumbo of BASEDPolitics, the BASED Podcast, and his new show Damage Control where he talks with the sane side of...

07/06/2023

The Hunter problem may well rear its ugly head during the general election campaign, and that could hurt Biden badly.

This is going to be a thing come next November

07/06/2023

This is being spun, unsurprisingly, and the administration will figure a workaround, but it's still ultimately good news.

After the Twitter Files blew up, we all knew what the government did. They didn’t explicitly censor anyone, as in they didn’t pass laws stripping people’s freedom of speech directly. Instead, they did something different. They simply pressured others to act on their behalf.

07/06/2023

It seems that people don't want to hire they/them pronoun users. Some say it's a lack of inclusiveness. We have other thoughts.

The inclusion of pronouns on just about everything has to be the dumbest trend of the 21st Century so far. There’s a certain arrogance in thinking that I care enough about you to actually need your pronouns, for one thing, but another is that this has led to people straight making up pronouns.

07/06/2023

She seems nice.

First, I apparently need to start this off by saying that yes, black people can be racist and that racism isn’t any “prejudice plus power” nonsense. This matters because we have an actual case of a racist rant by a black person.

07/04/2023

Whenever a leftist academic says something vile, the term "academic freedom" is thrown up as a shield. When someone doesn't toe the leftist line in academia, though, that shield is nowhere to be seen.

Whenever some leftist academic decides to declare all white people racist or vilify Christians or claim all men are rapists, universities simply claim that academic freedom allows them the leeway to make such provocative statements.

07/04/2023

It's not that the left gets upset by them. It's how they respond to being upset.

I’m of an age when people grew up wanting to be tough. We idolized Rambo, John McClane, Robocop, Rocky, anything with Clint Eastwood, and a host of other tough guys. While girls were able to be a lot softer, there was a certain desire to be able to endure a certain amount of hardship. While I can....

07/03/2023

Their sin was they tried to report both sides of a news story.

Yes, really.

Journalism isn’t supposed to be what we see these days. While journalists have always been people and therefore subject to a certain degree of bias, many actually tried to be as neutral as possible. Or, at a minimum, they tried to fake it.