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Very Politically Incorrect, but

Posted on November 28, 2008
Very Politically Incorrect, but Absolutely True According to Victor Davis Hanson's list of ten politically incorrect truths: 1. Four years of high-school Latin would dramatically arrest the decline in American education. In particular, such instruction would do more for minority youths than all the 'role model' diversity sermons on Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Montezuma, and Caesar Chavez put

The "Non-diverse" disease A Canadian

Posted on November 28, 2008
The "Non-diverse" disease A Canadian student organization has dropped its fund raising efforts for victims of cystic fibrosis because it "only affects white people and primarily men." While if it's only white people and mostly men, then screw 'em. Wesley Smith writes: I've been to Canada often...

Hubris What is this nonsense

Posted on November 26, 2008
Hubris What is this nonsense about the "Office of President-Elect???? There is no such thing under the Constitution and I can't recall any prior President-elect pretending that there was. This is like the "Obama official seal." The guy seems to have some real issues with reality or modesty.

Atheists in the Foxhole Italian

Posted on November 26, 2008
Atheists in the Foxhole Italian Communist Party founder returned to Catholic Church on deathbed. Here's the story: The Vatican has revealed that Antonio Gramsci, the founder of Italian Communism and an icon of the Left, reverted to Roman Catholicism on his deathbed...

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Too Funny Apparently, in Scranton,

Posted on November 21, 2008
Too Funny Apparently, in Scranton, Pennsylvania and Syracuse, New York, if you want to evoke the image of the exotic, Southwest, rootin'-tootin' cowboy lifestyle, the thing to do is name your restaurant "Fresno's."

Raising a Psychopathic Generation Jennifer

Posted on November 21, 2008
Raising a Psychopathic Generation Jennifer Roback Morse notes that one effect of the culture of divorce is that it separates the children of divorce from the sense of stability and trust that they need in order to develop their own habits of trust and empathy...

This attitude is pretty common,

Posted on November 21, 2008
This attitude is pretty common, though most people don't admit to it. The Volokh Conspiracy points out this article about a county board member who voted against allowing a Catholic church to rezone - in order to allow it to expand - because of her opposition to the Catholic Church's position on abortion: A county board voted to rezone a greater Bluffton church over the objection of one County

13th Century and Same-Sex Marriage One

Posted on November 21, 2008
13th Century and Same-Sex Marriage One of the interesting tactics of proponents of "change" is the argument from silence. Everyone knows that every knew in the past that a given consumation-devoutly-wished-for-by-someone-today was verboten no one talked about it being forbidden...

Great Moments in the Journalistic

Posted on November 21, 2008
Great Moments in the Journalistic Profession I've got to believe that this guy was fishing for a "for cause" challenge with the old I-believe-all-defendants-are-guilty strategem: A Fresno County Superior Court judge dismissed all 50 members of a jury pool this week because of remarks by one of them -- the top executive of the Valley's highest-rated TV station -- about racial minorities...

A theory of moral sentiments Freedom

Posted on November 20, 2008
A theory of moral sentiments Freedom is not for everyone. It is for those who have the habits that make living free possible. As Daniel Heninger observes: What really went missing through the subprime mortgage years were the three Rs: responsibility, restraint and remorse...

Everything old is new again Here

Posted on November 20, 2008
Everything old is new again Here is Larry Tribe's 2000 essay on the Clinton administration's seizure of Elian Gonzales. It's amazing how this bit of presidential abuse of state power has gotten a complete pass by the civil liberties crowd: The fact is, even on the assumption (which I share) that under applicable legal and moral principles Elian should ultimately be reunited with his father,

Polygamy Now! Richard Epstein

Posted on November 20, 2008
Polygamy Now! Richard Epstein argues that everyone should sign onto a "live and let live" approach to marriage. The State, he argues, should not discourage some relationships become other people dislike those relationships. Epstein's argument is logically sound in a world devoid of an actual history, but in this world - the real world, rather than some libertarian utopia where all variable but

Good Advice Dr. Helen quotes Ted

Posted on November 19, 2008
Good Advice Dr. Helen quotes Ted Nugent: You don't need tough love in America, you need tougher love. Around the water cooler, at the church, at school. At the work place, at the picnic, and the bowling alley. You should be pounding the desk with your fist, raising hell, and take this beautiful state back from the pimps, and the whores, and the welfare brats, and the gang-bangers who seems to

Surprise! Media focus on Republican

Posted on November 19, 2008
Surprise! Media focus on Republican negatives affected voters' perception of issues. Powerline blog reports: Here are some highlights of Zogby's poll of Obama voters: * 57 percent thought the Republicans still control Congress. Note that this is worse than a random result, since there are only two possible answers...

A vote for change is a vote to

Posted on November 19, 2008
A vote for change is a vote to appoint as Attorney General someone who believes in kidnapping children for Communist dictators According to NRO: One of my favorite Eric Holder stories involves his role in the Justice Department's handling of the Elian Gonzalez case...

The love that dares not speak its

Posted on November 17, 2008
The love that dares not speak its name won't shut up, but if you want to say "one nation under God" you have to go into a closet. An elementary school in Woodbury, Vermont forbids the saying of the Pledge of Allegiance in elementary schoolrooms; those who want to say the Pledge have to go to a second floor gymnasium...

St. Thomas Aquinas, ora pro nobis The

Posted on November 17, 2008
St. Thomas Aquinas, ora pro nobis The Angelic Doctor remains involved with his struggling brothers according to this story about how a Communist-raised abortion doctor became a pro-life advocate: In describing his conversion, Adasevic ?dreamed about a beautiful field full of children and young people who were playing and laughing, from 4 to 24 years of age, but who ran away from him in fear...

Maybe public contribution lists

Posted on November 17, 2008
Maybe public contribution lists are not such a good idea. After all, there is a reason for the secret ballot - it prevents the kind of retaliation and extortion that the gay left is visiting on supporters of Prop 8: Moore's 7,000-word treatise came to mind last week when gay activists began targeting sponsors of Proposition 8, the successful ballot initiative that amended the California state

Angry Gay Left Mobwatch Michelle

Posted on November 17, 2008
Angry Gay Left Mobwatch Michelle Malkin's blog provides context as follows: After just singing and worshiping God for a while, Roger decided that we should all hold hands in a circle and continue singing. So we did. Someone (Actually a person who came up and hugged and kissed some of us who he knew from the past) convinced some people that we were there to protest against the no on 8

Christmas Christmas gifts through

Posted on November 16, 2008
Christmas Christmas gifts through Amazon.

Pay your debts, keep your word... and

Posted on November 16, 2008
Pay your debts, keep your word... and you might be an "idiot." We live in a world where humble virtues like individual responsibility have been sneered at for so long and now we're finding out that the virtue of responsibility makes a collective difference...

If only University of Iowa college

Posted on November 15, 2008
If only University of Iowa college professors could marry. Second University of Iowa professor commits suicide after sexual harassment charge is upheld.

In Bizarro-world, the enemy of

Posted on November 15, 2008
In Bizarro-world, the enemy of one's enemy is our enemy. Gay groups advocate boycotting the Sundance Film Festival because it's in Utah. Argh! Confusing! Environmental grooviness v. liberal politics! What are they to do? Worse still, the CEO of Cinemark actually exercised his freedoms as an American citizen and contributed to the Yes on 8 campaign...

Artistic director forced to resign

Posted on November 14, 2008
Artistic director forced to resign because of support of Prop 8 This story was mentioned previously, but the situation played itself outwith Scott Eckhern resigning his position because of his exercise of his political and religious rights. Eckhern is a Mormon.

Good That elderly women who was

Posted on November 14, 2008
Good That elderly women who was roughed up by leftists for supporting Prop 8 is pressing charges against her assailants.

What if The Matrix was a Microsoft

Posted on November 14, 2008
What if The Matrix was a Microsoft Product?

The late great First Amendment Or,

Posted on November 14, 2008
The late great First Amendment Or, "why I'm not entirely disappointed that the Maverick didn't win." SCOTUS will hear a case involving the restriction on the release of a movie on the grounds that it was political speech." According to the story: The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from a conservative group that wanted to promote its anti-Hillary Clinton movie without complying with a

Democracy in America Government

Posted on November 14, 2008
Democracy in America Government agencies scoured "Joe the Plumber's" records and turned them over to the media. Ungoodthinkspeach will not be tolerated.

Exactly P.J. O'Rourke, lamenting

Posted on November 13, 2008
Exactly P.J. O'Rourke, lamenting the self-immolation of conservativism, nails this point, which I've been wondering about: The left has no idea what's going on in the financial crisis. And I honor their confusion. Jim Jerk down the road from me, with all the cars up on blocks in his front yard, falls behind in his mortgage payments, and the economy of Iceland implodes...

Adult Supervision Required The

Posted on November 13, 2008
Adult Supervision Required The Gay Patriot describes the recent liberal protests on same-sex marriage as "one extended temper tantrum." Spot on. Gay Patriot also observes: The passage of Proposition 8 should serve as a wake-up call that these advocates need show respect for their adversaries...

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