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, [...]
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 [...]
I have seen repeatedly in the healthcare debate an argument from the left along the lines of “someone who is sick and uninsured isn’t really free”. I always thought that was a bizarre assertion. Well I recently read an article on the Progressive giant, John Dewey and that very formulation played a big role in [...]
It seems to me that one of the big mistakes that supporters of gay marriage make is that they begin with the assumption that gay marriage and traditional marriage are equivalent and interchangeable. In other words, they simply begin with a civil rights argument without ever establishing its applicability. And I actually agree, if gay [...]
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 [...]
As I was writing the previous post on the craptastic legacy media, I realized there’s a remarkable parallel with the unfolding CRU hacked email scandal. When true believers (leftwing journalists in one case vs climate researchers in the other) control the input (reporting vs climate data) and the “unbiased” check on quality (editors vs peer [...]
The legacy media continues to not quite grasp the fact that they no longer have a monopoly on information. Nicholas Kristof and the NY Times provide us with another shining example. It’s an over the top story about a guy who lost his job and his insurance and has a potentially fatal health problem that [...]
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 [...]
I read a NY Times article titled Fathers Gain Respect From Experts (And Mothers). The basic idea is that research is making two things clear:
1. Fathers matter
2. When parents have good relationships, children benefit
I was preparing to make some derisive comments about how many PhDs it takes to figure out something this blindingly obvious when something jumped [...]
Pres. Obama has signed into law the Matthew Shepherd Hate Crimes Act. This is a big step in a very dangerous direction. The left apparently believes that prosecuting ideas is a good idea. If someone is murdered it is a crime regardless of who they are or why it happened. Are they somehow more dead [...]
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 [...]
Is it me or is the Obamaphilic left more willing to trust in the benevolent intentions of the likes of Iran, Russia and Venezuela than in American businesses.
When William Beveridge laid out his blueprint for the modern British welfare state in 1942, his goal was the “abolition of want,” to be accomplished by “cooperation between the State and the individual.”
In attempting to insulate the citizenry from the vicissitudes of fate, Sir William has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams: Want has been all [...]
The left is taking up the argument that opposing Obama is self-evidently racist. If it weren’t so serious it would be silly. They offer no evidence of racism but they can just feel it in their bones that all those protesters are racists. Hey, they don’t need evidence…they’re leftists and they are smarter than the [...]
I can’t help but note a few things that illustrate the sad state of the left…
George Bush can be interrupted giving a speech but His Majesty Obama shall not be interrupted. We are not amused.
Obama accuses his opponents of lying (“It is a lie, plain and simple”) and that’s fine but Joe Wilson’s shout of [...]
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 [...]
In today’s Wall Street Journal is a devastating piece on the deadly ideas pushed by Obama’s healthcare advisor, Dr. Zeke Emanuel (Rahm Emanuel’s brother). Zeke is not a fan of the idea that physicians should do everything they can for their patients. He argues that society’s needs have to be factored in. In practical terms [...]
One of the most dangerous delusions of the Left is the idea that we might be able to create a civilization that has no enemies. Civilization always has its enemies. -Unknown Author
The left just never seems to grasp the idea that we have enemies not because of George Bush or because of alleged past wrongs [...]
I decline to celebrate the life of a man who wanted to give away my hard earned money and take away my freedom.