Walter Russell Mead and Joel Kotkin are both self-declared liberals and yet have taken the liberal establishment to the mat on virtually everyone of today’s most pressing issues. Kotkin is a demographer, about which is said: demographics is destiny. He charts trends through numbers and tells us California is about to fall into the metaphorical sea under the weight of its unfunded pension liabilities. Kotkin | Read More »
Marijuana should be legalized. So should every other drug. Obama is an idiot yet even he gets the this. What does that make most conservatives? Retro dudes living in yesteryear. But that hopefully is changing. (See, hope and change can be used in the same sentence without hypocrisy.) Gay marriage is a big yawn. I’d have been happy to have started my 44 years-and-counting marriage | Read More »
Heard a very good interview with Arthur C. Brooks, head honcho of American Enterprise Institute, on NPR this morning. He’s pushing his new book, The Road to Freedom—apparently a spin-off title from Hayek’s Road to Serfdom. Brooks says that conservatives have failed to make a moral argument against liberalism, especially in regard to the issue of nanny welfare states. He says liberals have been winning | Read More »
(apologize for the repost, forgot to stamp a headline on it) Anybody see any difference between the soi disant “far left” and moderate liberals anymore? I don’t. But has it always been that way? Perhaps. Unions, entitlements, Big Bro Government, the whole shebang all goes back to the early 20th century and that means it goes back to communism. Originally, most of these atrocities were | Read More »
Anybody see any difference between the soi disant “far left” and moderate liberals anymore? I don’t. But has it always been that way? Perhaps. Unions, entitlements, Big Bro Government, the whole shebang all goes back to the early 20th century and that means it goes back to communism. Originally, most of these atrocities were good ideas. Or at least worth trying, with some components of | Read More »
As our little adventure in Libya moves quickly from guns to law books–perhaps sharia law–it’s a good time to look at what has been accurately dubbed liberal interventionism.Being a liberal concoction, it has already had a shinny euphemistic name change to the self-congratulating “smart power,” which reminds one more of a mutated cross between Mike Tyson and Marilyn vos Savant than what it is: just another good excuse for intervening in | Read More »
The Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky affair would be very old news, indeed, except for one thing; the real issue has been so methodically suppressed by the mainstream media, we’ve never had a chance to properly think it through. Having been a nominal liberal when it occurred, I bought lock stock and barrel the MSM line about it being a non-issue raised by prudish and prurient right-wingers and failed | Read More »
This comes from a heated discussion with my email group that consists of righties and lefties. It’s appropos to the greater national discussion in which conservatives are often labelled racists and other lesser insults simply because they’re wary of Obama’s agenda. Even to the point at which liberals suggest that to criticize a person of color is automatic racism. Yet of course they feel free | Read More »
…she’s more like a rotten tomato. Anita Dunn, the habitually dour former WH communications director, who attacks more often than she communicates, arrived on Morning Joe this A.M. spitting venom, licking it back up, and spitting it again. Egged on by habitually unprofessional co-anchor, Mika Brzezinski (yes, that Brzezinski family), Dunn made it clear you don’t need another reason to distrust these people, as Dunn made sure | Read More »
The Private Manning story, covered well here by Ms. Miller, is in some ways much like the recent black trucker’s murder spree in CT in which 8 whites were gunned down and WaPo and NYT grieved only for the shooter, because of dubious allegations of racism. Was there an attempted lynching? KKK painted with flaming pink lipstick on his lunch box? Swaztikas adorning his personal vehicle from psycho | Read More »
I belong to a small email group of about eight people, two of whom are liberals, and the more reasonable of the two recently said of a comment I made that I was “viciously racial.” When confronted, he “clarified” the difference between “racial” and “racist.” I noted in response that it was ironic he would use this tact since he’d taken this distinct between racial and | Read More »
Sharia Law is a foundational element of Islam, yet in some of its more toxic forms, it doubles as a pox on modernity and on civilization itself and if the Western World doesn’t wake up soon enough, it will be too late to stop the momentum behind its enshrinement in many of our cities, states, and countries.
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