At the TownHall, Michael Medved asks “What constitutes the essence of modern liberalism?“. The rhetoric of today’s left shows that they see society divided between the privileged and the powerless, the favored and the unfortunate, victors and victims. Liberals feel an irresistible instinct to take sides with the less fortunate. While the right wants to…
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Mandatory Vaccinations
Yesterday Texas Governor Rick Perry issued an executive order that mandates a new 3-step vaccination for pre-teen girls. One would assume that there is a medical crisis either in play or in the making for Perry to do an end-run around public debate in the Texas legislature, right? So what is it that’s such a…
Teachers and Pay
Ask virtually any teacher whether they are paid enough for the work they do and you’ll get the same answer. “No!” Is that true? Teachers are represented by unions, organizations that exist for the purpose of raising wages and improving working conditions. So why do teachers feel they are getting short-changed? On the surface of…
Jihad by Birthrate
Abdul Raheem Green says that one way to spread the “good news” of Islam to western democracies is to out-breed us (found at JihadWatch.org): “The birth rate in the Western countries is going down. People are more interested in their careers . . . they don’t want to have babies,” Sheik Green says in one…
Adoption and Biology
Alan Sears at TownHall.com says that some of Utah’s courts are “often more preoccupied with political correctness than parental rights” by favoring biologically unrelated persons. Indeed, a great injustice was nearly committed in this case: …the lower court judges, who assigned a Commissioners and a guardian ad litem to represent the child’s interests and evaluate…
RE: Closed pension loophole could still cost us billions
Michael Hedges says that Texas teachers ripped off Social Security. I wrote this in response. Think they’ll print it? Michael Hedges says that teachers ripped off Social Security. But what does he say about the systemic injustice that denies teachers, mostly women, who toiled for years at sub-market wages, the benefits of their SPOUSE’S Social…
Lost Boys
Debbie Schlussel says that only 43% of college students are male these days. It’s kind of obvious why. Women are pushed to succeed–with discriminatory, sexist scholarships, affirmative action, and any number of other programs deeming them an “under-represented” minority, when with 57% of the student body, they are anything but. Then, there are the cultural…
Self Esteem: the Gift that Stunts Growth
Polimom says that she’s worried about her daughter and whether she’s been given too much self-esteem. She says: It’s not just the parents, and it’s not just schools or academics, either. If your kid has ever been on a non-scholastic youth sports team (out here in Katy, soccer comes to mind…), you’ll recognize this: Since…
Ideas
I took my wife out for dinner for her birthday and my fortune cookie said the following: Alter ideas and you alter the world How true. This isn’t a revelation – lots of people know this. Mostly the wrong ones, it seems. W looked into Vlad Putin’s soul and found a good person there but…
Abortion Wars
I’ve been contemplating the latest Time.com article titled “The Grassroots Abortion War” for a while, wondering if it was worth commenting on. I was about to let it go when I wondered on a whim what Planned Parenthood’s budget looked like in terms of government funding. This subject is probably covered extensively in conservative blogs,…