A smack down of Michael Gerson, who never fails to unimpress. And, as Glenn notes, there is nothing generous about being charitable with other peoples’ money.
Category Archives: Philosophy
Atlas Shrugged, The Movie
…should have been rewritten by Ace.
Are We Undermining The “Moderate” Muslims?
As promised earlier, I have more thorough thoughts over at Pajamas Media.
If A Man Murdered Thousands In The Name Of Christ
…would we give him a Christian burial? While I’m not a Christian, I would think that Christians would object.
I don’t think it helps the so-called “moderate Muslims” to “follow Islamic traditions” with respect to this monster. He should have been fed to the hogs.
[Update mid afternoon]
I’m listening to Glenn Beck, and he’s channeling me. He says he’s already spoken to Muslim friends who are appalled that this happened.
Also, I’ll have a piece up at Pajamas Media on this subject later today.
Critical Legal Studies
Was Obama heavily into them at Harvard Law? It would actually be quite out of character for him if he weren’t.
“Liberals,” “Progressives” and “Reactionaries”
Some thoughts on political mislabels, and (lack of) presidential leadership. And note the latest rube who has become disenchanted with the president.
After Earth
Why, when and how may we have to find another home?
Big Government
What we’re talking about:
In a century, Big Government transformed an essential and minimalized service, the Federal Highway Administration, into the Department of Where the F*** Do You Think You’re Going, and the above fog machine is just the genetics of one department. I noted earlier that the GAO had “found” massive amounts of redundancy; it was a poor word. The GAO simply took the time to report on the disgust. Any rational man could look at the following, which is nothing more than a collection of current federal agencies, and understand the waste is of a scale difficult to comprehend and inspiring of our worst tendencies to rage.
It’s frightening, really.
Pick-Up Artists
…and evolutionary psychology. These are ugly truths for gender feminists who deny human nature.
Forbidden Planet
Some thoughts on the SF classic and its implications, both historical and today, from Bill Whittle. And if you haven’t yet, sign up for Declaration Entertainment.