Kids and Violence
by In the wake of yesterday’s slaughter at Virginia Tech the questions “why did this happen?” and “how can we stop it from happening again?” are …
Month: April 2007
Virginia Tech
I was going to write about an unpleasant article I saw in the Houston Chronicle recently in which Harris Country prosecutors said that they’re seeing …
Don "Who?" Imus, Duke, and the Race Card
Maybe I’m just a right-wing Christian square, but I’d never even heard of Don Imus before he made an ass of himself by called in …
Free Speech / Islam / World
ARI Counters the U.N. “Human Rights” Council
Yesterday the Ayn Rand Institute weighed in on the farce that is the United Nations Human Rights Council by saying: The U.N. Human Rights Council …
Perspective
One’s perspective is all-important in forming opinions. It also defines how one will express those opinions. This observation is nothing new – I’ve made it …
An Example of the New Liberal Intelligentsia
Today I spent my lunch hour with my stomach being twisted in knots. The food wasn’t bad – the problem was that I was reading …
Marc Schulman re Orwell and the Left
Everything Marc writes is worth reading but I found his recent essay about George Orwell’s criticism of the British left during WW II and the …
Immigration Reform, 2007
Usually it’s good news when illegal immigrants and their supporters are unhappy with proposed legislation – that’s an indication that legislators might be on the …
Moral Judgments
One of the fundamental pillars of American liberalism is that we should not make moral judgments about the worth of others or the worth of …