My father’s definition of the range of ideology is this: I believe personality definitions are spherical in nature and can be defined by spherical equations (and a sinusoid). The far fringes meet and touch on the other side of reality. Once you get past + (conservative) & – (liberal) 90 degrees (reality) you slowly progress…
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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.
Dawn Johnsen: Another Lying Liar in Line for an Important Job with the Obama Administration
The National Review’s Andy McCarthy been absolutely brutal in refuting Dawn Johnsen’s testimony that the DOJ Office of Legal Council nominee gave to Senate Judiciary Committee. In exposing Johnsen’s lies about her own written record, McCarthy exemplifies everything that is good about the American media. A virtual round for Andy, please, on the house. Here’s…
Who is John Galt?
Steve Hayward says that if Barack Obama’s trillion-dollar tax increase is implemented that he will go on strike in the fashion of John Galt, Ayn Rand’s famous lead in Atlas Shrugged. …my bigger idea is to go all Randian and literally go on strike (and I’ve never really been much of a Rand fan, by…
In Bashing Jindal, Krugman Blunders on Role of Government
NY Times editorialist Paul Krugman won a Nobel Price in Economics in 2008 but the swipe he took at Republican Bobby Jindal leaves a lot to be desired from the economy perspective. Writing about the role of government, Krugman defended the inclusion of volcano monitoring in the Democrats’ stimulus plan thusly: … knowing when a…
Obama’s Health Care Plan to be Mandatory?
Ezra Klein says that Barack Obama will ask Congress to include a mandatory participation clause when he spells out the broad strokes for his proposed health care plan: Administration officials have been very clear on what the inclusion of “universality” is meant to communicate to Congress. As one senior member of the health team said…
Bankrupt Homeowners’ Apologist Rejects Ethics, Responsibility, Common Sense
Matthew Yglesias has his doubts about whether homeowners who default on their home loans bear any responsibility whatsoever for the financial mess they have caused. Certainly lenders deserve a share of the blame for failing to run their businesses, well, like businesses. The federal government played a huge part in the fiasco as well, as…
Indiana University: Press Favors Republicans (and Hell Freezes Over)
Maria Elizabeth Grabe and Erik Bucy, both associate professors in the Indiana University’s Department of Telecommunications say that Republicans were the beneficiaries of media bias during the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 presidential elections: In their research, Democrats were more likely to be subjects of the “lip-flap” effect, while Republicans more often got the last…
Eager to Regulate, Some Economists Reject Reality
Nouriel Roubini, a professor at the Stern Business School at New York University, says that the current fiscal crisis was caused by the failure of “the laissez-faire, unregulated (or aggressively deregulated), Wild West model of free market capitalism” and that nationalization of financial institutions and heavy regulation is a requirement of a stable economy. Evidently…
Eric Holder’s Speech on Race Right On the Money
Attorney General Eric Holder gave America reason to believe in him today through a speech he gave to Justice Department employees and comments he made afterward: “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many…
American Students’ Mistaken Feeling of Entitlement
Ellen Greenberger’s study entitled "Self-Entitled College Students: Contributions of Personality, Parenting, and Motivational Factors" reveals a fatal flaw in the American university system – the students who attend – and whose education is the product of – these institutions. Greenberger was initially made curious about the subject by students who seemed to feel they deserved…