Students singing in the choir at Arthur Bugler Primary School in Great Britain spent weeks practicing Christmas music only to be told that the songs weren’t appropriate for the Corringham "Winter Festival", an event undoubtedly once known as a Christmas Festival. The reason? The songs were "too religious". The decision was called ridiculous by parents…
Month: December 2008
The Wisdom of Markets
Crowd-sourcing, capturing the “wisdom” of the mob, was what the cool kids were doing not so long ago. Witness the rise of the Daily Kos and other such web sites. One thing they failed to espouse in their almost universal progressive liberal dogma is that the idea of mining – and manipulating – the minds…
U.S. Automaker Bailout Happening
The Houston Chronicle says that U.S. automakers will be getting $15B in "emergency loans" and a new boss in Washington D.C. in the form of a "car czar" who would have to power to force GM, et al, into bankruptcy if the companies fail to reduce labor and financial costs in a timely manner. Stephen…
Muslim Violence and America
MPACUK, a British Muslim “empowerment system” according to its web site, says that it will no longer apologize for the acts of Islamic terrorists. This video, MPACUK says, explains why Muslims have turned to violence against their “executioners”: Quite a lot of build up just to end by blaming America for the world’s problems. Same…
PC Librarians Ban Christmas at UNC
What could be more American than a Christmas tree in December? Apple pie in July, perhaps. But politically correct librarians and at least one mid-level bureaucrat in administration at the University of North Carolina don’t seem to think that Christmas is something to celebrate and have banned the university’s decades-old tradition of displaying Christmas trees…
Democrats Evolve Stance on Terrorist Interrogations
Glenn Greenwald reports the inevitable: Democrats’ attitude about harsh interrogation techniques has changed now that their man has been elected and is about to assume responsibility for the continued security of the free world. It’s an unenviable job in many respects, in particular with regard the potential for being blamed for the 9/11, 7/7, or…
GM, the Company No One Wants
GM has a physical plant and inventory assets that exceed its current market capitalization of around $3B. The company would be ripe for a takeover if anyone wanted it. Instead, GM executives want Congress to loan it $18B to stay afloat while they try to whittle away at the mountains of debts and obligations they’ve…
Opposing Bailouts on Principle
Oliver Hart, professor of economics at Harvard, and Luigi Zingales, professor of finance at the Chicago Booth School of Business, say that Bush administration economists have abandoned principle in their rush to bail out financial giants AIG, among others. The government, Hart and Zingales say, should intervene in the fates of companies only when there’s…
The Greatest Killer of All
Jobsanger, the Texas Liberal’s guest writer, says that religion was what killed 300+ Muslims – and an uncounted number of Christians – in Nigeria over the weekend. The Nigerian conflict has been going on for some time and is at its core, as Jobsanger says, a religious war. Religions have been the source of fighting…
The Republicans Base
Writing at USA Today, Rod Dreher confirms something that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, namely that social conservatives and Christian voters are an essential element of the Republican base and that the McCain/Palin ticket lost for reasons having little to do with deep demographic changes misidentified by pundits such as Jeffery Hart…