Yesterday I decided to have spot of fun with the “progressives” over at the Daily Kos by responding to this Kos post about the framing of the case against partial birth abortion. Sadly my comment was deleted by the mighty Kos censors (or at least cannot be seen by mere mortals such as the author)….
Op-Ed Blog
Fixing No Child Left Behind
George Bush’s most positive contribution to American society may be the No Child Left Behind Act. This is not saying much given that NCLB is a train wreck that one simply can’t look away from. I mean that quite literally – we can’t look away. We can’t afford to. Most Americans have absolutely no choice…
Partial Victory on Abortion, Bad Pun Intended
By a 5-4 margin the US Supreme Court made the right decision Wednesday by upholding President Bush’s Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. From the Houston Chronice: Bush said that it affirms the progress his administration has made to uphold the “sanctity of life.” “I am pleased that the Supreme Court has upheld a law that…
Assimilating Islam
I recently wrote about the need for foreign nationals to assimilate when they make the U.S. their home. In the light of the horror perpetrated by a foreign student at Virginia Tech University this week I think that the need for assimilation is more obvious than ever. Sadly, there is no indication that Muslims are willing…
Kids and Violence
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 on everyone’s lips. I think that the two questions are closely related, but perhaps not for the same reasons as others who might agree. I think events like these have…
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 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….
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…