The U.S. Senate recently passed, with no discernible fanfare whatsoever, a bill entitled the America Competes Act. According to EdNews.org: the bill would increase research investment by: • Doubling funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF) from approximately $5.6 billion in Fiscal Year 2006 to $11.2 billion in Fiscal Year 2011. • Setting the Department…
Category: Society
Pushing Back on Islam
As I recently wrote in “Assimilating Islam“, I believe it’s important that Americans and our justice system establish clear lines about what we will and will not allow to take place vis-a-vis the Islamic-ification of this country. It’s also quite tricky as our systems have a built-in preference for freedom of association, religion, and speech….
Rebel Without a Kos
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)….
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…
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…
Assimilation
I’ve written about the need for immigrants from other cultures to assimilate when they come to the United States but as a conclusion to my last couple of posts I felt like I wanted to bang that drum again. It’s been said that the writing on Black Shards is anti-Mexican, anti-immigrant, and anti-Muslim and from…
Inside Threats
One of the problems with W’s War in Iraq (Wii – coincidence?) is that it has taken America’s eye almost completely off the ball, which is the global struggle against Islam. The enemy – and they are a real enemy, in case anyone’s not convinced yet – is not just in Iraq. Or even in…