Category: Current Affairs
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Cabinets Gone Wild
Another outstanding column by Victor Davis Hanson. Excerpt: Attorney General Eric Holder dropped charges against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation. That may explain why he said nothing when the same group put out a dead-or-alive bounty poster on George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting case. Holder's department is suing the state…
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PC Conservative Andrew McCarthy’s Lame Response to John Derbyshire
It is well known by now that NRO has cut its ties with John Derbyshire ('Derb') over the latter's publication in another venue of The Talk: Nonblack Version. Both Rich Lowry and Andrew McCarthy have commented on this severing of ties and both sets of comments are unbelievably lame. Here is the substance (or rather 'substance')…
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Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” Law Irrelevant to Trayvon Martin Case
This is one of the points made by Mona Charen in her excellent column, If Obama Had a Son: We are now engaged in another fruitless shouting match about whether young black men are being hunted on the streets of America and whether "stand your ground" laws are dangerous. But as the estimable Ann Coulter…
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Words Banned From Tests in NYC Schools
Feel-good liberalism at its best worst: Divorce. Dinosaurs, Birthdays. Religion. Halloween. Christmas. Television. These are a few of the 50-plus words and references the New York City Department of Education is hoping to ban from the city’s standardized tests. My astute readers do not need to have it explained to them what is wrong with…
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Global Warming Models Wrong Again
A WSJ piece by a professor of physics.
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Are We Coming Apart?
Robert Samuelson comments on Charles Murray's Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 and finds some grounds for a measure of optimism. Conclusion: America's distinctive beliefs and values are fading, says Murray. Maybe. But our history is that the bedrock values — the belief in freedom, faith in the individual, self-reliance, a moralism rooted in…
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More Embarrassment for the ‘Climate Change’ Ideologues
Here.
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State-Run Casinos
If state-run lotteries are a bad idea, as I have argued, then state-run casinos are even worse. But they are starting to pop up. Moral rot is at the root of all other rot. Overextended abroad, collapsing within, how long can we last? Bread and circuses are the people's pablum supplied by a government whose power…
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Paradoxes of Illegal Immigration
Philosophers hate a contradiction, but love a paradox. There are paradoxes everywhere, in the precincts of the most abstruse as well as in the precincts of the prosaic. Here are eight paradoxes of illegal immigration suggested to me by Victor Davis Hanson. The titles and formulations are my own. For good measure, I add a…
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Global Warmism as Ersatz Religion
Here. Excerpt: As with religion, it is presided over by a caste of spectacularly unattractive people [you mean, like, Al Gore?] pretending to an obscure form of knowledge that promises to make the seas retreat and the winds abate. As with religion, it comes with an elaborate list of virtues, vices and indulgences. As with…
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Climate Gate 2.0
Here and here.
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The ‘Occupiers’
They occupy, but they themselves are vacant.
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Obama’s No Leader
Robert Samuelson makes the case.
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Victor Davis Hanson
The guy is amazing. Here is his latest. He comments on Paterno, Cain, Wall Street, and illegal immigration. Excerpt: Those accused of racism for wishing immigration law enforced can make the argument that they are racially blind and wish it applied without regard to specific individuals; those accusing others of racism wish to render immigration law…
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The Manifesto of the Modern Protester
I found the following in the archives of my first weblog. The hyperlink has long been dead. The author is Nicholas Antongiavanni. Curiously timely in light of the antics of the 'Occupy Wall Street' crowd. This may be only an excerpt. I cannot find the original document. 1. No ill is so trivial that it can be…