Category: Current Affairs
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Evidence Mounts That Global Warming is a Lot of Hot Air
So far I have been very measured and noncommittal in my comments on global warming. I have contented myself with drawing some elementary distinctions that would have to be observed in any rational discussion of the issue. See here and here. But having spoken to a climatologist and having read more on the subject, I am…
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Travesty in New York
Will there be no end to the idiocies perpetrated by the Obama Administration? The latest is the absurd decision to give Islamic terrorist Khalid Sheik Mohammed a civilian trial in New York City. As usual, Charles Krauthammer cuts to the nerve of the matter: So why is Attorney General Eric Holder doing this? Ostensibly, to…
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Obama’s Fiscal Malpractice
Essential reading by Robert Samuelson. What were you thinking when you voted for this empty suit?
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The Latest Heidegger Controversy
Court Merrigan writes, I wonder if you'd like to weigh in on the newly-intensified debate surrounding Heidegger. Should the man's odious politics disqualify him from being taken seriously as a philosopher, as this book newly translated into English seems to indicate? You may have seen this article, also, on Faye's forthcoming book. This is apart from…
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What the Pelosi Health Care Bill Really Says
You say you haven't gotten around to reading H. R. 3962? What's wrong with you? It's only 1,990 pages long. Here is a summary. Section and page numbers are provided. Please read it. My summary of the summary: this is the most massive assault on our liberty by the Left to date.
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Malcolm Pollack at the Gates of Vienna
Or rather, at the gates of Gotham. Malcolm writes, Upon reading your post The Left's Death Wish, I thought you might find this interesting: A Genealogy of Radical Islam. I've been contending with the liberal mindset regarding Islam over at my own place, where, for suggesting that the massacre at Ft. Hood was most likely…
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Ronald Reagan’s Role in the Fall of the Wall
Twenty years today the Berlin Wall came down. Anthony R. Dolan in Four Little Words explains the difference between a leader like Reagan and an appeaser like Obama. Excerpt (emphasis added): Reagan had the carefully arrived at view that criminal regimes were different, that their whole way of looking at the world was inverted, that…
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California Grabs Ten Percent More in Withholding
One of the defining characteristics of liberals and leftists is a deep-seated quasi-religious belief in the benevolence and efficacy of big government, the bigger the better, and this despite repeated demonstrations of government incompetence, inanity, mendacity, and trickery. This from the Associated Press (emphasis added): SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California wage earners will soon notice a little…
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Fear of Fox
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Obamacare: Lawyers Win, Doctors Lose
Today's column by Dennis Prager is a must-read. Excerpt (emphasis added): If the 1,990-page House Health Care Bill becomes law, the average American will receive worse health care, American physicians will decline in status and income, American medical innovation will dramatically slow down and pharmaceutical discoveries will decline in number and quality. And, of course,…
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Unbelievable if True: Illiteracy and Innumeracy
David K. Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible in America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), p. 139: Some 37 percent of American adults cannot figure a 10 percent discount on a price, even using a calculator. (Emphasis added.) The same percentage cannot read a bus schedule or write a letter about a credit card error.…
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Palin Derangement Syndrome: Another Case
(Written 5 October 2008) Here is how Richard Cohen begins a recent column: Thank God for Sarah Palin. Without her jibes, her sarcasm, her exaggerations, her smug provincialism, her hypocrisy about family and government, her exploitation of mommyhood and her personal attacks on Barack Obama, the Democratic base might never be consolidated. This much is…
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Global Warming: Some Questions
What can a philosopher say about global warming? The first thing he can and ought to say is that, although not all questions are empirical, at the heart of the global warming debate are a set of empirical questions. These are not questions for philosophers qua philosophers, let alone for political ideologues. For the resolution…
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Some Definitions of ‘Global Warming’ Examined
Just what is global warming anyway? On this page you will find a page of definitions. This post will examine some of them. This is important because one cannot intelligently discuss global warming, or anything else, until one knows exactly what one is talking about. Now one thing that should be obvious is that a genus…
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Liberal Values: Limbaugh Bad, Mao Good
Are we in Cloud Cuckoo Land yet?