A Fork In the Road is Coming
As most of you know, I served on active duty as a USAF Security Policeman from 1984-1993. Three of those years were spent in Brunssum, The Netherlands, working on the International Military Police...
View ArticleThe Post-Modern Liberal Mind
David Warren, writing in the Ottawa Ciitzen, takes a look at some of the “Gorbachev/Obama” comparisons that some are doing and finds them wanting. But, he does find one thing the two men seem to share...
View ArticleHow The Internet Has Changed More Than Science
Those of us who are familiar with this process and have seen it at work before (Rathergate) won’t be particularly surprised, but Richard Fernandez does a fascinating essay comparing the CRU scandal to...
View Article“Everyone deserves health care”
That’s been the starting position for everyone who supported the health care reform monstrosity that just came out of Washington DC. It’s stated in various ways, such as health care being a “right”,...
View ArticleIs it the fault of multiple generations of public schooling?
Or is it the constant demonization of capitalism? This does’t particularly shock me: Sixty percent (60%) of U.S. adults nationwide say that capitalism is better than socialism. A new Rasmussen Reports...
View ArticleA duel to the death – progressivism v limited government
George Will’s column today is a “must read” if for nothing more than this succinct description of why government exits (and why it should be a “limited” government: Government’s limited purpose is to...
View ArticleDems–boot blue dogs, fold big tent
Ari Berman of "The Nation” does an op-ed for the New York Times in which he pushes for the removal (or at least the non-support) of the blue dog Democrats such as Heath Schuler of NC. Now that doesn’t...
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Are conservative ideas in the ascendency?
For all those on the progressive side expecting a miracle to take place on Nov. 2nd and sweep the polling places clear of those pesky right-wing nut-jobs, I hate to disappoint you. Instead, you need...
View ArticleIt’s the collectivist that are the problem, not the individualists
I’m amazed at times by what I read in major daily newspapers. OK, not as much now as I would have been say 10 or 15 years ago. Maybe it’s just awareness on my part now, but as I get older I am...
View ArticleThe Stupid! It hurts!
Earlier today, New York Times columnist Nick Kristoff opined on Twitter about cuts in government services. It’s not every day that you see such stupidity displayed so confidently…except from the Left:...
View ArticleOnly government can save you from having to be self-reliant
Read this lead sentence and weep for this country: At a million-dollar San Francisco fundraiser today, President Obama warned his recession-battered supporters that if he loses the 2012 election it...
View Article“Painful ignorance”
As I mentioned in an earlier post, it is frightening to read the words by this President and it is hard not be appalled by the apparent economic ignorance they contain. We’ve remarked on it several...
View ArticleWhy has the collapse of Communism had so little impact on political discourse...
At Powerline, John Hinderaker points to an article by Janet Daley in the Daily Telegraph and ponders the question she asks – “why has the collapse of Communism had so little impact on political...
View ArticleHow can anyone support Santorum after this?
When I was at CPAC, I asked Santorum voters why he was their man. Almost to a person, they cited the fact that he was the most “consistent conservative”. If that’s the case, is this what “consistent...
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Americans don’t pay government for the ‘privilege’ of being Americans
There’s a quote going around from Timothy Geithner that again demonstrates why he has no business heading the Treasury Department. In it he says things which are hard to attribute to a Treasury...
View ArticleQuote of the day: Eschewing individual rights for majority rule
It’s not like we haven’t seen where we’re headed before. One of the reasons for the war on individualism? Because it yields a desired result, a result, unfortunately, all to common in our history....
View ArticleMangling history leads to mangling culture
Very interesting read today by David Gordon in “Minding the Campus” (via Insty). In his piece he talks about the subject of history being at present in the best of times and in the worst of times, to...
View ArticleMichael Moore again demonstrates the cognitive dissonance of the left
Even Michael Moore thinks that ObamaCare is a disaster. And that’s saying something when a big government liberal (socialist?) finds a big government program to be … well, just awful. But, as...
View ArticleEquality: the wrong perspective
I’m always intrigued when I find this sort of nonsense about “equality” being trotted out as anything but stupidity on a stick. But here we go: ‘I got interested in this question because I was...
View ArticleThe emptiness of post-modernism
“Nihilism denies that there are any objective grounds for truth, especially regarding morality.” – Tom Lindsey And Nihilism’s child is post-modernism. Lindsey is talking about the recent outcry among...
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