“Democrats want to terrify people by claiming Bush’s judicial nominees are nutcase extremists hell-bent on shredding the Constitution – as opposed to liberals’ preferred method of simply rewriting it on a daily basis – but they’re terrified that someone might ask them what they mean by “extremist.” So let’s ask!” –Ann Coulter
Archive for April, 2005
Apr29th2005
The Real Pro-Choice Party
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Abortion, Economics, General and SocialSecurity. 6 CommentsAllow me to highlight what part of President Bush’s speech yesterday appealed most to me:
Third, any reform of Social Security must replace the empty promises being made to younger workers with real assets, real money. I believe the best way to achieve this goal is to give younger workers the option, the opportunity if […]
Apr29th2005
Should Civil Unions Only Be Restricted To Gay Couples?
Published by in Gay Marriage and General. 2 CommentsWhy should civil unions be restricted to only gay couples? The purpose of civil unions is to give gay couples legal recognition (i.e. hospital visitation privileges and insurance rights) based on their circumstances, not their sexual orientation. Since that is the case, than the same legal recognitions should be given to all relationships that […]
Apr29th2005
“Practically every big-name liberal senator you can think of derided the filibuster a decade ago but now sees the error of his or her ways and will go to amusing lengths to try to convince you that the change of heart is explained by something deeper than the mere difference between being in the majority […]
Apr28th2005
“Black Rednecks and White Liberals”
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Books and General. 6 CommentsSo goes the title of Thomas Sowell’s new book. It is published this week by Encounter Books, and is already pre-ordered by yours truly. Sowell, in promotion for his new book, recently was on the editorial section of the Wall Street Journal.
He writes:
For most of the history of this country, differences between the […]
Apr28th2005
Quote Of The Day
Published by in (modern day) Liberalism, Academia, Economics, Education and General. 1 Comment“An elite university is like a kibbutz hooked up to an ATM. It is the closest thing we may ever find to a socialist enterprise that endures. The key element of the kibbutz–that the workers collectively decide on the activities of the entity–is hardwired into the university via faculty governance. (The departure from the ideal–that […]
Apr27th2005
This question isn’t asked enough. Here is my take on workers’ unions.
Leaving the economic jargon aside for the moment, my dad (and uncle) happens to work for one of the biggest unions in the country. He is a mechanic that works off the port of Long Beach, California, and has been in the union for […]
Apr27th2005
“I like to think of myself as a compassionate, caring-sharing type of person, but my use of purple pens has nothing to do with useless mamby-pampyisms about feel-good pedagogy.” –John Palmer, economics professor at The University of Western Ontario, writing in his blog
Apr26th2005
Margaret Talbot, writing in the New American Foundation, gives a (long) great overview of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, my favorite Supreme Court Justice.
She writes:
…he revels in intellectual combat. Every year, he hires at least one liberal clerk, to give him somebody to spar with. Sister Helen Prejean, the anti-death-penalty crusader, recalls in […]
Apr26th2005
“Liberal Democrats, who now extol the filibuster to protect minorities, were in the forefront advocating strict majority rule through most of my nearly 48 years as a reporter covering Congress. As recently as 2000, architects of the filibuster strategy to block President Bush’s judicial nominees — with Democrat Bill Clinton still in the White House […]
Apr25th2005
What Legalizing Abortion Did To The Judicial Process
Published by in Abortion, General and Judicial Nominees. 5 CommentsDavid Brooks, writing in the New York Times, writes:
Justice Harry Blackmun did more inadvertent damage to our democracy than any other 20th-century American. When he and his Supreme Court colleagues issued the Roe v. Wade decision, they set off a cycle of political viciousness and counter-viciousness that has poisoned public life ever since, and now […]
Apr25th2005
Yet Another Reason To Oppose Higher Education Subsidies
Published by in Economics, Education, General and University. 1 CommentAside from sheltering universities from failure and increasing the overall cost of education, subsidies have another negative side effect.
A new paper claims:
This paper uses a game-theoretic model to analyze the disincentive effects of low-tuition policies on student effort. The model of parent and student responses to tuition subsidies is then calibrated using information from […]
Apr25th2005
“Academic life is infected with it: people who want to believe they are far more consequential than they really are. So you get Ph.D.s who like to call themselves Doctor. Professors who pretend to be revolutionaries because sitting around writing and giving lectures that students sleep through seems so pointless. Intellectual non-entities who become professors […]
Apr24th2005
My good friend Tavares Forby, also known as BlackPundit, was sent to India for work related activities. He has decided to update his website with information about his trip, along with photos. I encourage you to take a look, some of the pictures are really interesting.
Apr24th2005
“With his [Pope John Paul II] 1991 encyclical on democratic freedom and economics, Centesimus Annus, he issued what is by any objective measure the most pro-Western–pro-American, for that matter–document ever to come from Rome. And then, with the denunciations of the “culture of death” in the 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae, he issued Rome’s most anti-Western […]
Apr23rd2005
“In the end, the path out of the Cold War was neither Henry Kissinger’s hard realpolitik nor Jimmy Carter’s soft détente. It was instead John Paul II’s insistence that communism could not survive among a people who had heard–and learned to speak–the truth about human beings’ freedom, dignity, and absolute moral worth.
Think of the number […]
