It’s a good thing we have post-modern, post-moral professors, or else some might get the crazy notion that looting is a bad thing. From a weekend piece in the Times, apropos the looting that followed last week’s earthquake in Chile, we get these two nuanced views on the morality of – let us dispense with [...]
From the Writings of David Horowitz: March 7, 2010
March 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The desire for a world that is fundamentally different from the one we have been given was the precise hubris I had found troubling in the radical cause. As Lew had written, revolutionaries and redeemers “put a romantic overlay over life;…they [played] on the most ancient of all human impulses, the desire to cover over [...]
Confronting Jimmy Carter’s Slander of Israel’s “Apartheid”
March 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Richard Cohen’s excellent article in the Washington Post on Wednesday March 2nd, offers several compelling reasons why Israel doesn’t deserve to be compared to South Africa under Apartheid, but I believe that it will be hard for many on the left who think of the State of Israel in that manner to ever understand this, [...]
Nope, Still Not Seeing Much of a Change From Bush to Obama
March 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
David Forsmark replied to my post about the George W. Obama Administration here, titled “Yes, Ryan, There IS a Difference Between the 2 Parties on National Security.” Just a little clarification: I was comparing the Obama and Bush Administrations, not necessarily both parties, and I didn’t say there was no difference at all, just nothing [...]
The Heretics: Dr. Julian Simon
March 2, 2010 By 28 Comments
The grandfather of modern environmental skepticism discredited the preeminent doomsayers of his day.
Exile and the New Russia
March 1, 2010 By 1 Comment
The life and death of a now-defunct, Moscow-based English language newspaper that upset a lot of people.
Exile and the New Russia
February 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The latest Vanity Fair carries an amusing and appropriately graphic account of the life and death of Exile, a now-defunct, Moscow-based English language newspaper run by American expatriates that managed to piss off a lot of people – usually, but not always, for bad reasons – in its short and mostly obscure decade-long existence. As [...]
Democrats Toothless Arguments at the Health Care Summit
February 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Dear Mr. President:
I received a letter from my little boy – who lives with me but prefers to use the U.S. Postal Service for standard communication – stating categorically we do not have enough money for the purchase of Star Wars Lego and other necessities. While he didn’t state categorically this was affecting his health, [...]
Going Cold Turkey
February 26, 2010 By 20 Comments
It’s high time to retire our delusions about Turkey being a model for Muslim countries.
Left Complains NBC’s Olympic Coverage Too Patriotic – Bucks Right
February 25, 2010 By 5 Comments
The New York Times’ Alessandra Stanley is upset that NBC is focusing too much of its coverage of the 2010 Olympics on American athletes and seems to be (gasp) cheering for the Americans to do well and happy when they win events. Technology evolves, organizers add new sports — this year it’s ski cross — [...]
