December 7, 2012 - 12:33 am
- 5 Ways the Fiscal Cliff Drama Could Play Out, by Bill Straub. The edge is near: 25 days out, the outcome is still very much up in the air.
- Dictators and Double Standards, by Michael Ledeen. Why do so many intellectuals cozy up to dictators? Machiavelli, despite his reputation, knew better.
- Arizona Bomber Had Citizenship Rejected by Homeland Security for ‘Terrorism-Related Activity,’ by Patrick Poole. Congressman demands answers in case of Abdullatif Aldosary, who has been charged with bombing of Social Security office in Casa Grande, AZ, last Friday.
- Fast and Furious: Post-Election, Golden Parachutes Deployed, by Bob Owens. Fired and demoted, but still free.
- Western GOPs Exhort Congress to Take Back Regulatory Power, by Bridget Johnson. From the EPA using flawed science to activists forcing policy changes, federal agencies’ power “has greatly accelerated to unprecedented levels.”
- 5 Places to Visit in Israel (When It’s Safe to Go Back): Part Two, by Kathy Shaidle.
- From the heights of Masada to the depths of the Dead Sea, with a detour to southernmost resort town Eilat on the Red Sea.
- Golden Spike Company: A Man Sells the Moon (PJ Media Exclusive), by Charlie Martin. Today, a new startup announces they plan to sell commercial flights to the Moon.
- Hill Conservatives on DeMint: ‘Disappointing to Lose his Strong Voice in the Senate’
- by Bridget Johnson. South Carolina’s other senator, though, can breathe a bit easier about holding on to his seat.
- Perhaps It Is Still Just About Race, by Vik Rubenfeld. Enough voters may have still been obsessed with penance for America’s past misdeeds.
“Perhaps It Is Still Just About Race, by Vik Rubenfeld. Enough voters may have still been obsessed with penance for America’s past misdeeds.”
Aboslutely, and it is more than that–American society is getting skewed in emphasis and serious pathologies are being introduced into stratas of society where they did not really thrive before because one cannot criticize anything “black”, lest one retard the great forward progress of the rest of black America upward from the legacy of racism. I can easily see a situation 10 years from now where the descendent of an Iowa farmboy who died at Shiloh fighting slavery and whose great-grandson strongly supported the Civil Rights movement gets automatically labeled as a descendent whose entire heritage has been about keeping black folk down. I also could see–am seeing–where the young think that only black folk like Martin Luther King fought for liberty in America’s past, because he is the only person honored in a way no one else is.
No NFL football team will thrive for long if players can’t be criticized on poor performing tendencies–or if other players adopt those tendencies. Nor will it thrive if we decide one subset of a group of players must be praised above all others, and those who have done well in the past be ignored, just so those not playing well now will be better players in the future. It just goes against all that is known–or should be known–about human nature.
Along those lines–I find it hard to believe that the reason the fashionable types think it is okay to call the Tea Party “racist” is because they quite accurately understand that for Tea Partiers, if given a choice between economically destroying the country by unreservedly throwing money at social engineering programs, regardless of results achieved, for as long as necessary, or instead setting limits on spending to that which is sustainable, asking all Americans to carry a little more of their own weight, and insisting on treating all Americans as Americans, nothing more, nothing less, so that we may move forward in pragmatic American brotherly equality, well…the Tea Party chooses the second.
Which is what constitutes racism in the eyes of the black community and its supporters, apparently.