August 1, 2006

The common enemy of the Western world
According to a pair of Gallup polls released last week, 83 percent of Americans say Israel is justified in taking military action against Hezbollah, while 76 percent disapprove of Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel. Yet when asked which side in the conflict the United States should take, 65 [...]

July 31, 2006

Majority Rights
For anybody who is wondering what has happened to the “Majority Rights” blog, it is down for technical, not political reasons. Why? From what I gather, it has a “blue-eyed beauty” thread that is both gargantuan (with heaps of graphics) and very active (it has been going for months) [...]

The Virtue of Riches
How wealth makes us more moral — a few excerpts from here
For many Americans, riches are so disreputable that taking them away is a goal in itself. The left used to offer the misery of the poor as a reason for redistribution, but these days an increase in inequality is [...]

July 30, 2006

European Regulators Disregard Fairness, Undermine Property Rights (Again) … While the U.S. Government Remains Silent
The European Commission (EC), in all its zeal to control competition worldwide by targeting successful U.S. corporations, has once again shown its anti-American stripes, disregard for fairness and contempt for intellectual property rights. This week, the EC issued [...]

July 29, 2006

THE POISONOUS BRITISH CHATTERING CLASSES
Below are some excerpts from a recent article by Melanie Phillips. It may be noted that the prewar equivalents of today’s British chattering classes overwhelmingly supported Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler. Their desperation to appear wiser than the common people cuts them off from all political reality
There is [...]

July 28, 2006

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY BELOW
By Spanish writer Sebastian Villar Rodriguez
I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz. We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, [...]

July 27, 2006

AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION POLICY THAT MIGHT WORK
And be acceptable politically
Border Patrol agents I spoke with were reluctant to be quoted on the record, but all agreed that a comprehensive solution that combines more and better border enforcement with a well-designed guest-worker program is necessary if real progress is going to be made. “We need to [...]

July 26, 2006

LAKOFF REVISITED
The Guru of the American far Left would have to be Noam Chomsky, and, like most gurus, he makes a good thing out of it. But he is marginal to mainstream politics. For the American mainstream Left at the moment, the guru seems to be none other than the hilarious George Lakoff. [...]

July 25, 2006

Why do racist belief systems persist?
British-born Harvard history Professor Niall Ferguson makes a game attempt to answer the above question here. Some of the factors he mentions are a bit speculative but, all things considered, he goes about as far as political correctness allows. I however am a retired academic and seek no [...]

July 24, 2006

SOME INTERESTING CONFERENCE NOTES FROM STEPHEN FRANK
Saturday afternoon we heard U.S. Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma speak. He noted that by 2016, 80% of the Federal budget will go towards Social Security, Medicare and Interest payments. Imagine, no money for roads, parks, salaries, education, or defense. So far, according to the Senator few in D.C. [...]