Category: Current Affairs
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Occupy What?
Another piece of outstanding analysis by Victor Davis Hanson. "Postmodern class warfare is an insidious business, and hinges on its advocates not looking in the mirror."
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A Bit of Freedom Comes to Castro’s Island
Fidel Castro came to power in 1959. In his socialist worker's paradise home ownership was legally forbidden until just now. Suppose you were 30 in '59, at the age when many are in a position to buy a house for the first time. Well, now you are 82 with a year to live. You can…
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The Moral Dimensions of Illegal Immigration
Another outstanding piece by Victor Davis Hanson, one of the best things I have read on the topic.
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Mark Steyn on the Wall Street ‘Occupiers’
Excerpt: So they are in favor of open borders, presumably so that exotic Third World peasants can perform the labor to which they are noticeably averse. Of the 13 items on that “proposed list of demands,” Demand Four calls for “free college education,” and Demand Eleven returns to the theme, demanding debt forgiveness for all…
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Why the Left Cannot Fairly Blame Obama
Analysis by Victor Davis Hanson.
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Can One Consistently be Pro-Life and Pro-Death Penalty?
This topic just won't go away. Recent example: [Texas Governor Rick] Perry’s identification as a strong supporter of “a culture of life” and what he called the “ultimate justice” of capital punishment, however, raises some potentially thorny questions about the meaning of being “pro-life.” In campaign season, the question is whether American voters, especially voters…
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Tea Party ‘Racism’ Again
This from an NPR interview of Julian Bond: SIEGEL: Some people read into the Tea Party's almost neuralgic reaction to government spending, a sense that white people figure black people benefit disproportionately from federal programs. Do you suspect a racial subtext to that whole argument? BOND: Absolutely. And I'm not saying that all of the…
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Britain and the Barbarians
Commentary by Theodore Dalrymple. You may have noticed that liberals have a exasperatingly lenient and casual attitude toward criminal behavior: A single example will suffice, but one among many. A woman got into an argument with someone in a supermarket. She called her boyfriend, a violent habitual criminal, "to come and sort him out." The…
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Attacking the Messenger
Standard and Poor's downgrading of the credit worthiness of the U. S. government from AAA to AA+ should come as no surprise to anyone. We all knew that current levels of debt are unsustainable. So what do Obama and Geithner and their shills in the liberal media do? They blame the messenger for the ill…
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The Peculiar Madness of Paul Krugman
Excellent analysis by Robert Tracinski.
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We Need to Face the Truth as the Catastrophe Looms
A Pond away, Janet Daley of The Telegraph sees things with exceptional clarity.
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Bill Clinton, the Race Card, and Voter ID
Say it ain't so, Bill. This from the The Wall Street Journal: The last time Bill Clinton tried to play the race card, it blew up his wife's primary campaign in South Carolina. Well, the Voice is back, this time portraying the nationwide movement to pass voter ID laws as the return of Jim Crow.…
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Liberal Cry Babies and Tea Party ‘Terrorists’
The scurrilous hyperventilation and name-calling of the scumbaggers of the Left continues apace. Here's an example: President Obama Bends to Blackmail. More choice items in this despicable genre, together with rebuttals, can be found over at Real Clear Politics.
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A Big Victory for the Tea Party
Call it Schadenfreude, but it was certainly a pleasure to wake up this morning to the gnashing of leftist teeth over last night's Tea Party triumph. The howling of the lefties is as music to my ears. In his latest outburst, Paul Krugman speaks of "extortion." Others speak of 'hostage-taking,' 'terrorism,' 'Taliban tactics,' 'arson.' One commentator…
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The Debt Debate
A U.K. commenter remarks: Meanwhile, changing the subject completely, I fail to understand the game of 'chicken' that the two houses are playing over debt. (Wasn't there a James Dean film that started that way, with bad results?). I would be interested in hearing your views in a post. Here are some quick thoughts. To understand what…