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, [...]
Free speech? Not with knuckle-draggers on campus and the Israeli Ambassador speaking. The left tells us all cultures have equal value. Hmmm….really?
Give the faculty member who speaks up credit. He doesn’t hold back. Hat tip to Power Line.
New Jersey is a shining example of this. And there is finally some recognition of the fact that NJ is losing many of its wealthiest residents for blindingly obvious reasons: the taxes are too high and the business climate too hostile.
The left, of course, continues to be in denial about a basic fact of the [...]
Every now and then I wonder if I over think things a bit. For example, I was working on the post below and started to wonder if it was a little too speculative. Then I came across this. It turns out, I’m not so crazy.
It’s tough sometimes to write about these things without sounding like [...]
One of the Inqy’s resident apologists for all things inexcusable published a post-Fort Hood column attempting to portray a softer side of Islam. In it, the God of Islam is described as one of love and peace, no different from our God.
That’s right, Islam, which translates as “submission”, is just like other religions. The news [...]
This is one of those pieces that just leaves me so cynical about the left and the media. Paul Krugman writes that we are shortchanging education in the US. He offers no actual evidence, of course.
Education, as one of the largest components of public spending, has inevitably suffered.
Oh, really? Take a look at this. We’ve [...]
At what point does it become reasonable to describe the left as adhering to an ideology that is not supportive of freedom? I think the time has long since passed but it is difficult to press the case without sounding like a bit of a lunatic.
A couple reminders of this crossed my screen recently. First [...]
“If you were to ask a believer in multiculturalism for the tangible…benefits brought [by large numbers of immigrants], not as individuals but as bearers of…culture, he would almost certainly be reduced to silence; for the truth is that believers in multiculturalism are not really very interested in other cultures (for such interest is very hard [...]
As if the media’s integrity wasn’t already in tatters, they continue to repeat the official line from the left that the public option is not a Trojan horse that would lead to nationalized healthcare. Why is it that users of YouTube can find a growing list of leftwing politicians, academics and activists who say that’s [...]
For many you Europeans, Western civilization comprises little more than pop music, soccer, a sexual free-for-all, social security programs and five-week holidays in exotic places: not a strong position from which to face either the economic or the ideological challenges of the day.
Theodore Dalrymple
This gem was tucked away deep within the bowels of the Inquirer today. To summarize, the U.N. Human Rights Council has passed a resolution calling for countries around the world to prohibit criticism of religion, particularly Islam. This is a direct, frontal assault on human rights, modernity and western civilization. When will our so-called great thinkers and [...]
Philip Howard has written the best commentary I have read in a long time. It isn’t about economics, the second amendment or foreign affairs and it’s only partially about politics. I think he absolutely nailed the biggest problem in our culture over the last several decades: the loss of freedom in the the little decisions [...]
A remarkably brave 8th grade girl performed an experiment recently. She wore a pro-McCain shirt to her overwhelmingly pro-Obama school and took notes on what happened. Then she did the reverse the next day with a pro-Obama shirt.
Not surprisingly the self-proclaimed tolerant lefties hurled all kinds of hate her way. Some of the highlights included [...]
I happened across a fascinating piece called “The End of Multiculturalism”. The author is definitely no conservative but has not hesitation in defending traditional American culture. In fact he even asserts that it is better in many ways than other cultures. It’s very refreshing.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Multiculturalism is not [...]
“Sometimes a more balanced debate is best served by an unbalanced symposium.”
Carl Bogus (former director of Handgun Control, Inc. and Violence Policy Center board member) explaining in 1999 why an article by Prof. Randy Barnett included in an all anti-second amendment law review issue.
If only Orwell was still with us. He would appreciate the danger [...]
I saw this mentioned on FoxNews.com earlier. It’s just frightful indoctrination by the left.
To which we can only respond, if the jackboot fits….
I came across an article from 2004 when Finland's schools were ranked best in the world by a new study. There were a number of things that stood out. First, is that they only spend about $5,000 per year per student. Second is the rigorous requirements for becoming a teacher - a master's degree is [...]