Just before the weekend, John Derbyshire published an essay that can only be called racist. His advice boils down to making snap judgments, based on fear and faulty assumptions, and avoiding black people in general. It’s awful. It got him fired from National Review. In the last few days, it has become understandably controversial. Many [...]
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The Talk: All Races Version
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged John Derbyshire, National Review, race, racism, Taki Mag on April 8, 2012 | 4 Comments »
What is Marriage?
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged gay marriage, homosexuality, marriage, National Review on April 7, 2012 | 6 Comments »
As our society debates what the definition of “marriage” should be, we would do well to remember that by defining a term at all, we must exclude everything that does not fit that definition. If we say that a chair must be a thing on which you can sit and which has four legs, we [...]
Strong Families and the Success Cycle
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged Charles Murray, Coming Apart, family, marriage on April 7, 2012 | 5 Comments »
The best quote from the best article about Charles Murray’s new book about the facts regarding faith and family in America: In addition, he says, the upper class needs to abandon its nonjudgmentalism, start “preaching what it practices,” and stop being afraid to send the rest of America messages such as: People should not be [...]
The Death of Talk Radio in Las Vegas
Posted in Living well, Politics and Society, tagged Alan Stock, AM radio, Casey Hendrickson, Fox, Heather Kydd, Heidi Harris, KDWN, KXNT, Las Vegas, radio, talk radio on March 17, 2012 | 5 Comments »
This might be the final nail in the coffin of a long, slow, agonizing death spiral at least two years in the making. Conservative talk radio in Las Vegas, which used to foster multiple quality stations, is all but gone. In recent weeks, Heidi Harris was given the boot by local AM station KDWN. Harris [...]
Freedom Vs. Charity
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged charity, freedom, priorities on March 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Our political impulses might be boiled down to these two competing priorities: freedom vs. charity. Our devotion to freedom is to guarantee the unimpeded right to pursue our own lives as we see fit. Our dedication to charity is to foster the well-being of our communities as much as possible. The problem is that to [...]
Conservative Commentary in Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Posted in Humor, Politics and Society, tagged imperialism, Life of Brian, Monty Python, satire on March 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
How telling that common sense satire, so subversive 30 years ago, is now so contrary to political correctness that it may well now constitute a hate crime. Here, we see the logical failure of sexual identity politics in the real world, and the juvenile futility of the anti-imperialism bandwagon.
Evaluating the Arguments For and Against Gay Marriage
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged civil discourse, debate, family, gay marriage, homosexuality, marriage on March 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
My attempt at an objective analysis of some popular points: Pro-Gay Marriage Ban Arguments Evaluation Anti-Gay Marriage Ban Arguments Evaluation “Homosexuality is morally wrong.” WEAK. While people have the right to campaign for laws based on their beliefs, civil laws are not obligated to honor them. This opinion is actually irrelevant to the issue. “We’re [...]
How Good Are Democrats at Helping Cities?
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged conservatives, Democrats, Detroit, liberalism, mayors, New Orleans, Republicans, Washington DC on February 25, 2012 | 11 Comments »
Consider the chart below: City Has had only Democratic mayors since Last time a Republican was mayor Detroit 1962 1962 Washington, D.C. 1961 1883 New Orleans 1936 1872 Of course these examples are cherry picked, but they certainly do demonstrate some dangerous myopia. One could argue that there are plenty of cities historically [...]
Where Did All Your New Money Come From?
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged budget, cultural criticism, money, smartphone on February 23, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Last year I read this article about the many standard devices that are combined into a smartphone, and I considered getting one. As I shopped around, though, a scary fact slapped me–while the initial cost of a phone could be reckoned with, the monthly fees would be impossible. Articles such as here, here, and here [...]
The Libertarian Internet: Wikipedia, Craigslist, and Ebay
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged Craigslist, Ebay, freedom, Internet, libertarian, Wikipedia on February 11, 2012 | 8 Comments »
The recent kerfuffle over SOPA got me thinking again about how relatively free the Internet is–not in terms of cost, but as a beacon of freedom. Consider three of the online world’s greatest success stories, Wikipedia, Craigslist, and Ebay. Each exists with minimal interference by the managing authority–those who run each site merely set up [...]
The Simpsons and the Nevada GOP Caucus
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged caucus, Nevada, Republican party, The Simpsons on February 9, 2012 | 4 Comments »
In a classic fifth season episode of The Simpsons, we see brief glimpses of conventions held by the two major political parties. The Republican convention is a scene of unmitigated evil. The Democratic convention is shown as a bunch of goofy losers who can’t do anything right. If those stereotypes held true, then Nevada’s Republican [...]
The Psychology of Politics
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged Chronicle of Higher Education, conservatives, liberalism, psychology on February 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Fascinating article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about a renegade psychologist whose work illuminates the hidden mental, social, and moral motives behind our political values. It’s all enlightening, but some of it goes against the grain. He’s a self-described moderate, atheist, Obama supporter, but his findings suggest that it’s American liberals who have the [...]
Ron Paul Protest Vote in Nevada Caucus?
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged caucus, Mitt Romney, Nevada, Ron Paul on February 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The Nevada GOP caucus is Saturday. Here’s an idea I’ve been toying with: Mitt Romney will win. It won’t even be close–he won 51% of the vote here in the 2008 caucus. Like a lot of conservatives, I’m a little torn between Romney and Paul. But since it’s a sure thing that Romney will win [...]
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