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 evidence of a dramatic increase in the number of juvenile criminals who attack their own parents. I do some theories about why that’s happening but I can’t discuss them now….
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Marc is a software developer, writer, and part-time political know-it-all who currently resides in Texas in the good ol' U.S.A.
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 the Rutgers women’s basketball team nappy-headed hos. Whoever the heck he is I wish he wasn’t white and I wish he hadn’t said that. Why? Lots of reasons. Why a…
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 recently passed a resolution urging nations to pass laws prohibiting the dissemination of ideas that “defame religion.” It appears that the resolution was partly a response to last year’s Danish…
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 before yet failed to fully integrate it into my life and writing. But there are moments of clarity in which one sees things are they are – or perhaps as…
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 a draft of an article that David Schraub’s going to have published in Dartmouth Law Review later this year. To read it you’ll have to follow the link and register…
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 early Cold War fascinating because it so effortlessly caused my many dislikes of and doubts about our modern Americal liberals to coalesce into comprehension. Particularly to the point of today’s…
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 right track. Unfortunately I don’t think that’s the case with George Bush’s new plan, which centers around the nonsensical notion of illegals going home before re-applying for admittance into 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 their actions. We’re all more or less the same according to liberal dogma. The death penalty is the ultimate moral judgment and the forbidden nature of moral judgment is, in…
Bernard Lewis: We’re in the 3rd Islamic War on Europe
(Hat tip to Melanie Phillips) Bernard Lewis gave a must-read speech at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research on March 7th. Old news to many, but new to me. Very interesting reading. A key paragraph: The declaration of war begins at the very beginning of Islam. There are certain letters purported to have…
UN Watch: UN Human Rights Council “Criminal”
Watch UN Watch’s presentation to the UN Human Rights Commission at Little Green Footballs – it’s a good thing. Here’s the transcript as lifted from UN Watch’s own web site: (Note that it’s not exact. But it’s close. And damning.) Mr. President, Six decades ago, in the aftermath of the Nazi horrors, Eleanor Roosevelt, Réné…