Rules Are for Schmucks: The Humanist Punching Bag

Last Thursday was a long day. I spent it out on soccer fields, doing my volunteer job of cleaning them up for spring and laying out the precise lines necessary to enable several hundred boys... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: The Censored UN Report

Politicians don’t want to hear what they don’t want to hear. That’s why some of them, like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), have stopped holding town hall meetings with their constituents. Willful clapping of hands over... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Armed and Pious Alabama Church Seeks Its Own Police Force

Briarwood Presbyterian Church in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, is pressing for a bill in the current session of the Alabama legislature to give itself something no other church in America has (yet): its own official government-sponsored... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Debriefing McMaster

When H. R. McMaster was announced as the replacement for disgraced National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, initial reports disclosed a surprising detail. Not only did he have a brilliant record as a field commander in... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: A Lesson from Basketball

Kayla Martel, age ten, wanted to play basketball, just as she’d been doing the past four years for her St. John’s school team in New Jersey. Until the day, that is, when the God experts... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: The Case against Gorsuch

Senate Democrats are in hand-wringing mode over what to do about the Neil Gorsuch nomination to the US Supreme Court. As usual, much of their focus is on what’s politically expedient, rather than what’s right.... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: Eyes on the Prize

Underestimating Donald Trump is a bad idea. People have been doing that for nearly two years now, and nothing good has come of it. It’s time to start understanding the method in his madness. That’s... Read More