Obama, Muslims, and Freedom
by Steve Clemons says that Barack Obama just threw his “key Muslim advisor under the bus” by allowing his “volunteer national coordinator for Muslim American affairs” to …
Category: Society
Crime / Society / Stupidity / Technology
CyberPunks, an Apt Name
Mattathias Schwartz’s article in the NY Times magazine serves as a brief peek into the anarchic world of Internet trolls and hackers, people who are …
Church Shootings Sad, Indicative
Sunday’s shooting at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church was an event that proves even the places that are most sacred to us are not inviolable, …
The Internet->Stupidity Connection
Nick Carr says that the Internet is making us a stupid society incapable of – or unwilling to – focusing on the internalization of large …
Child Care / Crime / Society
Second-Guessing Witnesses
The SF Chronicle says: The town of Turlock and much of the rest of the nation was shocked when a 27-year-old man beat and stomped …
Obama’s Father’s Day Message
Barack Obama to black men: "Fatherhood doesn’t end at conception." Right on. If Obama is to deliver on his promise of positive change, that’s perhaps …
The Forgotten War
Libby Spencer at Newshoggers and Bob Barr have something in common: both realize that America’s War on Drugs is a waste of both resources and …
Defending Judicial Activism
Mark at Publius Endures wrote a couple of keen posts about the gay marriage decision in California and the role of the judiciary in controlling …
Self-selecting DNA
Michael Medved writes that the idea that Americans have an inherent – even Darwinistic – advantage over other peoples is gaining additional respect in the …
Obama: Sense and Nonsense
Inside every candidate there are multiple personalities, each of whom run the show in turn, depending on who the audience is. Barack Obama is no …