How the left stole the word “liberal” a century ago. We need to take it back. I refuse to call them that.
Category Archives: History
The Seventies Ice-Age Scare
A compilation of news stories. For those who weren’t there.
Also, note that Stephen Schneider thought that we had to cut our fossil fuel usage to prevent it.
NASA’s Blurry Vision
I have some thoughts on the tenth anniversary of the Bush VSE speech, over at USA Today.
The Challenger Disaster
Some new pictures, never seen before.
Capitalism
Some thoughts on the false history of its evils.
The Liberty Constitution
…or what about slavery?
This always strikes me as one of the more illogical ad hominem arguments against the Founders.
WW II In Europe
Our Prussian School System
More thoughts from Glenn Reynolds on the public-school disaster, over at the Daily Caller.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: Meanwhile, back in the Fatherland:
Got that? Let me repeat it just in case. A German judge took children away from their parents because “he family might move to another country and homeschool, posing a ‘concrete endangerment’ to the children.”
In August, 20 armed police, equipped with a battering ram just in case, arrived at the door of this Darmstadt family and forcibly took four children, ages 7 to 14.
Was there anything wrong with the children? Nope. The judge — whose name, by the way, is Marcus Malkmus, in case you have a voodoo doll handy or wish to burn him in effigy — the judge admitted that the children were 1) academically proficient and 2) well adjusted socially.
He just didn’t like homeschooling.
Why? Pay attention now: this takes us deep into the heart of a leftist: because he feared that “the children would grow up in a parallel society without having learned to be integrated or to have a dialogue with those who think differently and facing them in the sense of practicing tolerance.”
The invocation of “tolerance” is especially cute, don’t you think?
As Glenn writes: “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. Gleichschaltung!”
Black Boot Or Red
…it’s still a boot, stomping on your face.
In all of the humorous attempts by the left to expunge the Nazis and fascists from their history, they have to desperately grab for small straws of differences between fascism and communism. But what’s important is not the niggling differences, but what is the same — both are ideologies of the collective, of the State, and opposed to individualism. The difference, as I often say, is transparent to the user. But neither is “right wing,” if by that one means committed to individualism and human liberty.
Iraq
It’s looking like 2013 was the year that we lost it. But Obama and the Dems got what they wanted, an “end” to the war. They never want to win wars, except against their domestic enemies.
[Update late morning]
How Al Qaeda terrorized its way back in Iraq.