According to an NYT editorial, The rate of firearm death for children 14 years and under is almost 12 times higher in this country than in 25 other industrialized nations combined, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. … Continue reading
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Continue reading
It’s official! John Derbyshire says so… Trouble is, Jesus was not a philosopher. The Bible is full of inspiration and spiritual insights, but as a handbook for conducting worldly affairs, it needs to be taken with a dash of, well, … Continue reading
I found it extremely shocking to hear various American commentators speaking, during the world cup, in support of diving (Balboa), professional fouls (Lalas and Wynalda), time-wasting (Balboa again), deliberate handball and various other offenses that I had always considered to … Continue reading
Happily for the rest of us. The would-be-flag-burners and the would-be-flag-burner-banners cancel each other out. Except in the Senate. Unhappily.
Despite the best efforts of Frist, Feinstein et al, the US narrowly avoids joining the ranks of Iran, China, Cuba and other countries that ban flag burning. Scott Adams says it best . His idea for a company that makes … Continue reading
The NY Times says that Chief Executives should be outsourced. I don’t think we’ll really have a realistic debate about globalization until journalism and politics are outsourced too.
Andrew Sullivan et al have been using the No True Scotsman defense of conservatism. Today’s is just the latest in a long series of blogs that attempts to draw a distinction between what a True Conservative believes and what the … Continue reading
Did the same Andrew Sullivan who wrote this… My own view is that conservatism is fundamentally rooted in skepticism about the human mind and its capacity to change society. So it’s basically resistant to large-scale change, but, on the rare … Continue reading
You won’t catch me quoting Arianna Huffington too often, I hope, but here goes… Whether Al Gore ends up running in 2008 or not, he is modeling the way our public figures, and especially our would-be presidents, should be operating … Continue reading