A pair of recent New York Times features asked political thinkers on both sides of the aisle what the other side gets right. The columns are each fascinating: I enjoyed the recognition of key conservative principles in “What the Right Gets Right,” and I can easily agree with most of “What the Left Gets Right.” [...]
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What the Left and Right Both Get Right
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged conservative, liberalism, New York Times on January 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A Case Study in Lazy Political Complacency
Posted in Politics and Society on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My last post a few minutes ago was about an essay at the wonderful education blog Brainstorm. However, one author there is so insufferably, pedantically narrow minded, she doesn’t even make me upset, just bored. In a recent post, she bemoans the fact that the current GOP campaign has not yet produced a critical witticism [...]
The Global Genocide of Baby Girls
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged abortion, family, genocide on January 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
All abortions are not created equal. The numbers are chilling: around the world, babies prenatally identified as female are far, far more likely to be aborted than male babies. This has resulted in many major societies now having a huge imbalance in genders: there are way too many young men and not nearly enough young [...]
Occupy Camelot
Posted in Humor, Politics and Society, tagged Monty Python, Occupy Wall Street on January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Ron Paul Dream
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged Ron Paul on December 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last week I had a dream about Ron Paul. In my dream, I was at some kind of convention or rally, and people got to go up to a table and meet Ron Paul. When it was my turn, I said something like this: “Like a lot of conservatives, I’ve had misgivings about your foreign [...]
Diplomatic Dialogue Has To Start Somewhere…
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged economics, Occupy Wall Street, Peter Schiff, reason on December 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Below, libertarian economic expert Peter Schiff talks to Occupy protesters. Some of these protesters are confused, barely literate brats riding a bandwagon, but a few of them are clearly very serious, mature, intelligent people. Unfortunately, a video like this has to operate in sound bites, and I wish the forum had been a quiet table [...]
Two Sides of the Same Coin
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged City Journal, economics, Occupy Wall Street on December 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Cute and clever video via City Journal points out the similar problems on both sides of the economic debate.
Irrational Anti-Christian Hatred Is Real
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged anti-Christian, anti-Mormon, cultural criticism, Dustin Lance Black, gay marriage, LDS Church, NPR, terrorism, tolerance on December 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Last month, my college classes had an assignment to write a problem/solution essay. Being young adults, almost all of them wrote from a politically liberal perspective. Now, some of those papers were clever, articulate, and well-written, even if I personally disagreed with their premises and conclusions. But not many of them. Many of them were angry, [...]
World AIDS Day
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged AIDS, cancer on December 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There was recently an event called World AIDS Day, which generated a lot of hand wringing and clichéd calls for “awareness” in the media. News items I saw particularly seemed to focus on demands for more money spent on research and treatment. But AIDS already garners far more funding than it proportionally deserves. Political fashion [...]
Teaching Men To Fish
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged charity, community, mentoring, personal responsibility, volunteering on December 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »
A little conversation with my fellow conservatives, here. Readers on the political left are welcome to eavesdrop, but this idea is for those of us who like to talk more about limited government and personal responsibility. When we say these things, we also really like to quote the saying, “Give a man a fish and he [...]
Occupy Anthem?
Posted in Humor, Politics and Society, tagged I Want It All, Occupy Wall Street, Queen on November 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Like ‘em or not, this seems to capture the essence of the Occupy movement’s manifesto:
The Biggest Difference Between Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged After America, Brandon Watts, entitlements, Glenn Beck, Mark Steyn, Occupy Wall Street, personal responsibility, tea party on November 20, 2011 | 16 Comments »
I started my observations about these two movements a month ago with a point of conciliatory commonality–their shared opposition to undue influence by rich special interests in politics, whether left or right. However, after two months of Occupy Wall Street, the most stunning thing about these two movements is how their core is starkly contrasted. Tea Party [...]
Demography Redux
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged birth rates, children, demography, family, First Thoughts, Mark Steyn, NPR on November 6, 2011 | 9 Comments »
A post at First Thoughts this week links to some recent rumblings over much of the world’s fretting about the global population reaching 7 billion, despite the fact that nobody seems to be worried that most nations now have a falling birth rate. So which is it? Does the world have too many people, or [...]
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