This guy probably just got more readers than he’s ever seen. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that he probably just got more readers than he’s ever seen, and most of them aren’t going to bother to ever return, now that they’ve seen him.
It might have helped if he’d, you know, actually put forth a substantive criticism.
There is no scientific evidence that reducing intake is good for your health.
I’ve cut back myself, because I seem to be empirically salt sensitive, in terms of my blood pressure, but EPID in that regard, I think. I’ve also switched over to sea salt to get a wider variety, including potassium. I’d never prescribe public policy about the matter, or make war on it, as Nurse Bloomberg has.
…of ObamaCare:
Now a central tenet of the fundamentally flawed law, the employer mandate, is collapsing. What ever will Democrats do?
In a word: panic.
Actually, panic and break the law. The unambiguous start date for Obamacare’s employer mandate, according to Section 1513, is the “months beginning after Dec. 31, 2013.” With the delay, however, President Obama has declared that he is not bound by mere law. All he is missing are mirrored sunglasses and a big military hat.
Obamacare’s employer mandate is a microcosm of liberalism itself. What may sound good at first ends up harming the most vulnerable among us. Businesses that dare to provide jobs to 50 or more employees face steep fines unless they provide expensive government-sanctioned health insurance. Because Obamacare now defines 30 hours a week to be full time, the result is entirely predictable: Businesses are laying off workers and cutting back work hours.
Gee, if only someone who understood economics, human nature and incentives had predicted this?
Oh, wait.
The overreach of the Muslim Brotherhood:
It is difficult to welcome a military overthrow of democratic results. It is, however, more difficult to regret a prophylactic coup against the exploitation of democratic success to adopt measures inimical to the development of a democratic culture.
I’d note that in passing ObamaCare, the Democrats didn’t follow Jefferson’s advice, either. It was a similar tyrannical overreach which John Roberts, to what should be his eternal shame, didn’t slap down.
Wow. It’s not just the prosecution who should be disbarred for this, but the judge as well, or at least sanctioned. She’s certainly provided plenty of basis for an appeal in the unlikely event of a conviction. Sounds like Zimmerman was smart to have his gun ready — Martin certainly could have been armed. So much for the false narrative of the innocent twelve-year-old, hunted down by the murderous white man.
The decline and fall:
The radical scholars recognized Western Civ had to be erased to achieve their goal of destroying the old order and ushering in the new “inclusive” inclusive manifesto. (Remember Jesse Jackson’s chant at Stanford? “Hi-ho, hi-ho, Western Civ has to go”). In the process, the General College was abandoned – and with it went the foundation of a proper college education.
And out went academic standards, which suited the radicals who adopted grade inflation as a gesture against the Vietnam War. College students found it much easier to remain full time students without contending with the onerous course load, and even easier to maintain a 2.0 academic average – the minimum to avoid losing the student draft deferment. Plus students could now choose courses across the spectrum without having to build a foundation of academic rigor.
By the late 1970s, many radical scholars were gaining tenure — the archaic privilege enjoyed by academics that guarantees a job for life — and the power to push their advantage to mold the curriculum to their purposes. New hires were screened for allegiance to the radical manifestos. Traditional liberal arts course work was re-defined to focus on women, race, sexual technique, gays and the environment. The result has been unsound subjects masquerading as worthy academic pursuits — and college graduates who are unaware of their inherited culture.
The public was mostly unaware of this revolutionary change.
Unfortunately, it probably still is. As noted in the piece,the current “humanities” aren’t worth saving, or worth the cost of the tuition for them. At least more people are starting to figure that out.
…was organized by the Justice Department?
Holder shouldn’t just be fired — he should be in jail.
[Update a while later]
Justice for Trayvon, race-hustler style.
Thoughts on why Islamists hate us. Unfortunately, Bush was right — they hate out freedom. And it’s appalling that the administration won’t put them on the terrorist list. Even the UK has done so.
The preferred media narrative has completely collapsed:
It is impossible to reasonably argue that the state presented a case that should result in a murder 2 or manslaughter conviction. However, and of course, a conviction is still possible.
So they’ll continue to unreasonably argue it.
[Update a couple minutes later]
The Zimmerman trial as media pornography.
It’s certainly a distraction from real issues.
What it knows about you.
This is one of the reasons that I rarely use Gmail. I only use my account as a backup, if my own server is down.