Human exceptionalism demands that human equals be treated with equal respect regardless of their economic circumstances. This means, as just one example, implacable opposition to slavery and human trafficking. It also means opposing using the poor and destitute as biological resources, . . . . Continue Reading »
The new governor of New Jersey offers a blunt, but not rude or defensive, response to a reporter’s question about his “tone.” He is right that the political press’s furrow-browed concern with “tone” and working bipartisanly and their unctuous worries about the . . . . Continue Reading »
Israel National News, a web-based Israeli news service, recently interviewed FT Senior Editor David Goldman : If senior journalist David Goldman is right, the correct word for describing the way a growing number of US Jews feel about President Barack Obama is not ‘anger’ but . . . . Continue Reading »
I have sometimes thought, only partly tongue-in-cheek, that I should try to recover my former competence on the banjo after some four decades away and arrange at least a few of the Genevan Psalm tunes for bluegrass. It seems someone got there ahead of me. No, it isn’t a Genevan tune, but it . . . . Continue Reading »
One of theDems’ biggest contributor warns that the Obama administration are “really left leftists.” The Jerusalem Post reports that one of the Democratic party’s largest contributors is “dismayed” at the Obama administration’s policies towards Israel: . . . . Continue Reading »
I have an op-ed in the Washington Times that attempts to understand the explosive racial and ethnic dimension of the current debate over the new Arizona immigration law. You should read it if for no other reason than it must be the only op-ed ever that mentions both Keith Olbermann and Chesterton. . . . . Continue Reading »
A.O. Scott reviews the new Robin Hood movie for New York Times . Not a bad review, really, but then there was this, in passing: The anti-French animus of “Robin Hood” is amusingly over the top—the French monarch is first glimpsed slurping oysters—but also perhaps a little . . . . Continue Reading »
If scientists want us to take the purported global warming threat seriously, they have to stop with the panic mongering. Here’s the latest example: Scientists have issued a study warning that global warming will cause mass lizard extinction. From the story:Scientists warn in a research . . . . Continue Reading »
“I just got back from” the Department of Motor Vehicles, writes Daniel Foster on the National Review website, “and hereby renounce my conservatism, in favor of revolutionary anarchism.” Been there, done that. Sometimes, the urge to burn it all down is awfully hard to resist. . . . . Continue Reading »
Do not tell me that this administration has no intention of rationing health care. Do not even breathe it. Former Senator Tom Daschle, who would today be head of Health and Human Services but for some tax problems—the man the NYT called the most influential adviser on . . . . Continue Reading »
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