It's a Tax After All, Charlie Brown

Yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a Obamacare), the biggest piece of corporate welfare since the bank bailouts. Not only are Americans now forced to buy health insurance from the companies that corrupted the system in the first place, it was proven that the penalty for not doing so was a tax after all, something everybody else in the country except liberals already knew.

The Contraception Debate: It's Not About Women or Religion

The two sides of the debate on whether or not the federal government should mandate free birth control coverage for women, even if the employer is associated with a religious organaization who may find birth control morally objectionable, represents a really sad truth about the divide in American politics.

Why I Don't Support Kony 2012

I'm getting tired of hearing about Joseph Kony.

Seriously.  I'm all for the demonization of war criminals where it's deserved (and by all accounts, Kony deserves it:  the abduction and forced military training of over 30,000 children and the displacement of over 2 million people is nothing to scoff at), but the more I find out about the "Kony 2012" video and the company behind it, the San Diego-based nonprofit Invisible Children, Inc, the less I see the sudden explosion of interest and support for the movement as a positive thing.