I have to admit that I’m stuck on Benazir Bhutto. Quoting Mark Steyn again, “She was beautiful and charming and sophisticated and smart and modern, and everything we in the west would like a Muslim leader to be”. Writing about her murder, Andrew McCarthy had this to say about the nation she once led and, I…
Category: Liberalism
Liberal Intolerance
The relative merits of liberalism were recently inflicted on a Princeton undergrad in a most forceful way: Last Wednesday, at Princeton University, vicious emails were sent to four students and a professor, threatening their lives because of their conservative political and religious views. The students—all members of the Anscombe Society, the intellectual family-values organization on…
Be Happy, Be a Republican!
A Gallup poll of over 4000 Americans indicates that Republicans have significantly better mental health than their Democratic counterparts. Various statistical perspectives are graphed as well, all showing Republicans as being significantly healthier. Gallup’s key conclusions: Previous analysis (see Related Items) shows that a number of variables are related to self-reported mental health — including,…
What a farce
I came across an article that just happen to discuss three of my favorite pet peeves (global warming, UN, and wealth distribution). How in the world could I NOT comment on it! The myway.com site was putting up an AP article (press to read) that, in a nutshell, says that the UN feels America should…
Mukasey and Liberals
At the Huffington Post, Nora Ephron writes that “It’s hard to be a Democrat“, saying: It’s hard to be a Democrat, don’t you think? There’s no alternative, of course, but it’s hard. Someone asked me the other day to write something about why I was a Democrat, and I had no trouble making a list…
Progressives Hold Up FISA Modifications?
Earlier today the Huffington Post reported that the Democratic leadership in the House postponed announcing a new set of proposed changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after progressive lawmakers promised to fight legislation that omitted their “principles on wiretapping that preserve the ‘rule of law.’” Steny Hoyer, the House Majority Leader, had planned to…
Would the World be Better Off…
…if the U.S. loses the war in Iraq? Fox News asked that question of 900 registered voters and came up with what I think is a comforting result (pdf). Of particular note is the Fox headline, which screams that almost 20% of Democrats answered “Yes” to the question. Sure, it’s bad that almost 1 in 5…
Hillary’s Baby Plan Redux
The Chicago Tribune just published an analysis of Hillary’s plan that is rather similar to mine. Their conclusions? Well, the editorial is titled "Clinton’s baby boondoggle" for a reason… It would be expensive — about $20 billion a year — and Clinton offered no way to pay for it. Absent a funding source, the cost…
Summers of Our Discontent
Kathleen Parker says that Lawrence Summers, the former Harvard President, is the prototypical example of this generation’s McCarthyism – political correctness in academia. Summers, you’ll recall, was driven out of his university post in 2005 after he suggested at a conference that gender differences might account for an under representation by women in science, math…
A Liberal’s Take on Condi Rice
I recently followed a memeorandum link to a piece by Michelangelo Signorile about an interview with Glenn Kessler, the author of a new book titled The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy. The focus of the post is squarely on Rice’s sexual orientation, as if that were the most interesting and…