In one my classes today, our professor asked how many of us were gun owners. I’ll spare you the details but it was a logical, if surprisingly blunt, question given the subject of the class that day.
4 out of 14 students answered yes. Of the 4 gun owners, two were women.
If this is a representative [...]
There has ben a lot of discussion by the academic left about whether the killing of Osama Bin Laden was justified. The people questioning the OBL killing don’t seem to question that a nation has a right to defend itself from a direct attack, but are raising the question of whether that is applicable here.
I’m [...]
The NY Times had an interesting piece a couple days ago focusing on the “lost generation” of workers in Europe. Essentially, there are no jobs for young people. The European economies are so bad that “young” includes people well into their 30s.
The Times, of course, doesn’t connect the dots so I’ll do it for them: [...]
I think our side can serve up a heaping plateful of We Told You So. ObamaCare will, indeed, raise the cost of healthcare.
I can across this in the explanatory comments of the Second Restatement of Torts Law. Restatements are documents produced by the American Legal Institute to describe the current state of laws in certain areas. This comment is in an area on the subject of outrageous conduct relating to the intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The rough [...]
I submitted this letter to the editor a couple weeks ago. It was not published and unfortunately I did not save a link for the original letter.
A letter in today’s paper derided Sen. Sessions’ description of Elena Kagan as a “dangerous progressive”, saying progressivism is by definition forward-moving. I disagree. There is little forward-thinking about [...]
Did you ever get the feeling the legacy media coordinates the coverage (and non-coverage)? Did you ever sense they weren’t very neutral but were actively taking sides? Did you ever feel like they were making things up that were patently untrue? Or that they were attacking certain people for having politically incorrect views?
Well, you were [...]
The Inquirer had a piece today that was a pretty obvious attempt to paint the Tea Parties as being similar to neo-nazis: The Tea Partiers are against illegal immigration. There is a neo-nazi group patrolling the border region (like the Minutemen). So, the Tea Partiers must actually be nazis or at least nazi sympathizers. The [...]
I had a letter to the editor published in the Inquirer in response to their anti-McDonald editorial. It’s not the most exciting piece of writing but it works.
You know conservatives are landing punches when the left starts trotting out the “conservatives are anti-intellectual” argument. The ever-predictable EJ Dionne pulled this one off the shelf today.
It’s not that we’re against the systematic study of ideas. We’re all for it. But for too many intellectuals “systematic study” involves “systematically ignoring” anyone to the right [...]
Mrs. Newbie Shooter once told me a story about a crusty old teacher who said she new the leftists had won when economics was pulled from the curriculum in New York. I bring this up because the Wall Street Journal had a great piece today quantifying just how poorly lefties understand economics.
The summary is this: [...]
Woody Allen provides us with yet another example of what the left is really about (power and control). Woody says Obama should “be a dictator for a few years because he could do a lot of good things quickly.”
That’s surprisingly similar to Thomas Friedman’s dreamy column about the awesomeness of one party rule in China. [...]
Just weeks after ObamaCare has been signed into law we’re already starting to hear that the bill is going to raise the cost of healthcare. So it turns out the majority of Americans who were called reactionaries, racists, liars, homophobes, stupid, uneducated, violent and seditious for opposing it were, in fact, right.
Will the luminaries on [...]
I was recently debating a colleague on a variety of political topics. He kept repeating an often-heard lefty refrain, “Republicans want to impose their morality on people”. This is a common talking point and, and best, incomplete.
Setting aside the somewhat esoteric issue of whether all laws are a reflection of morality, is it really [...]
Tyler Cowan has a link to a new paper analyzing online political reading. One of the quotes is from the paper is:
Visitors of extreme conservative sites such as rushlimbaugh.com and glennbeck.com are more likely than a typical online news reader to have visited nytimes.com.
Setting aside the issue of whether Limbaugh and Beck are appropriately described [...]
The left exaggerates the bad elements of the country’s past (slavery and discrimination, example) as a tool to discredit the better elements (such as limited government and a can-do culture that combined to produce a uniquely prosperous nation). Do they apply the same logic to their own history? To quote John Boehner, “Hell no!”.
The left’s [...]
I am firmly convinced that the left exists in a self-congratulatory echo chamber. This is particularly true in certain areas of the country. One of the consequences of this is often that their logic and ideas are unchallenged, untested, and just plain sloppy. They are not stupid or evil people. They simply aren’t rigorous in [...]
The Wall Street Journal recently noted a study that observed that women who are more financially secure and live in safe locations tend not to seek manly men as mates. This is entirely consistent with my contention that people who support the post-masculine, metrosexual approach to life fail to notice they are standing on [...]
The following was a letter submitted to the Inquirer in response to this letter.
A recent letter challenged anyone who has studied history to identify even one founder who would have agreed with Justice Scalia on guns. I’ve studied our history and here are just a few.
James Mason: “to disarm the people is the best and [...]
Borepatch has a nice post on progressivism (hat tip to Newbie Shooter). Here’s my current summary of progressive agenda:
1. Guarantee an expansive and virtually unfettered right of individuals to pursue all the meaningless distractions that modern life has to offer.
2. Restrict and regulate the areas of life that actually have real significance (freedom of expression, [...]