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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Saving Your Memory

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A recent study has confirmed what many suspected: People who engage in activities that exercise the brain, such as reading, writing, and pl...

Good and Evil among the Lefties

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Over at Evolution News and Views Michael Egnor is piqued by the fact that much of the secular left has been very hostile toward the appoint...

Counter-Proposal (Pt. I)

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Keith Hennessey is a former advisor to President Bush who writes on insurance matters at KeithHennesy.com In a pair of recent posts he offe...

Wasting Time

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Are you the sort of person who feels guilty if you spend an hour doing nothing productive or edifying or are you the sort of person who wish...

Noses Are Growing

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When President Obama insists his health care reform plans would not eliminate private insurance he's being very disingenuous. He certain...

Chavez's Version of the Fairness Doctrine

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The left continues its assault on basic freedoms in Venezuela: More than a dozen of 34 radio stations ordered shut by the Venezuelan gov...
Monday, August 3, 2009

Best That They Can Do

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In logic there's an informal fallacy called tu quoque , meaning, roughly, "you're one too." It occurs when someone seeks t...
Sunday, August 2, 2009

Racial Profiling

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If you think that racial profiling by cops is one of the great evils of our time read this . Written by a retired cop it explains how New Yo...

The Third Replicator

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Writer and psychologist Susan Blackmore has an interesting article at New Scientist on the emergence of what she thinks is a third type of...

What We're Likely to Get

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The WaPo's Charles Krauthammer puts on his prophet's cap and tells us what the upshot of Obamacare is likely to be. Here's his ...
Saturday, August 1, 2009

Looking for Racism in All the Wrong Places

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Much of the national media was all atwitter over the fact that two white men and two black men were having a beer together at the White Hous...

Spoof

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Some people just have too much time on their hands: Thanks to Politico.com . RLC

Smiley-Face Fascism

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We've often remarked that fascism is an ideological bacillus endemic not, as is commonly supposed, to the right but to the left. Indeed,...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Cry Racism Some More

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Let me see if I understand this. If you see two black men trying to break into a house you're a racist if you report to the police that ...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Re: <i>Taken</i>

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Alas, no anti-torture absolutists chose to reply to my invitation to watch the movie Taken and explain why the Liam Neeson character was w...

Paramilitaries, Theirs and Ours

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The New York Times has an article that reveals the horrors Iranian detainees swept up in the aftermath of the massive protests over voter ...

Can't be Bothered

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It seems like the only people in favor of the Democrats' plan for health care reform are people who haven't read the bill. Durin...

Gangster Government

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Rep. Michelle Bachman calls our attention in this video to the economic brutality and corruption involved in the closing of GM car dealershi...

Disparate Impact

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Shelby Steele, author of White Guilt and Affirmative Action Baby , has a column in the WaPo that I commend to anyone interested in the con...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Stunted Development

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According to Strategy Page , as North Korea moves toward chaos with the imminent succession crisis looming when Kim Jong Il dies, South Kore...