Mark Steyn has an amusing update over at The Corner. I find it amusing that some people really think that if it goes forward, it will be like the Scopes trial. I guess that’s how these people really think. It’s of a piece with the nuttiness that skepticism about AGW is on a par with creationism.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
The Sacrament Of Abortion
Observations on last night’s abortion fest in Charlotte. This is starting to remind me of 1972, in the leftist insanity on display. You almost have a sense that they know they’re going down in November, big time, and want to do it in a blaze of collectivist glory.
It’s Not You, It’s Us
Frank J. says that America has failed Barack Obama.
I’d like to say that we never deserved him, except we do, because we voted for him. Less than nine weeks to rectify that mistake.
“Fact Checking” as Lies And Spin
Thoughts on the Pinocchio Press.
Mayor Castro
He’s apparently a Democrat star. Imagine how the press would react to a Republican mayor named “Hitler.”
Not to imply, of course, that there is anything “right wing” about Nazis. But the MSM imagines that there is…
Justice
Now this is what I call an honor killing.
Bob Is A Racist
Bigotry, explained.
As someone rightly points out in comments, you’re a racist if you even view this video.
An Englishman’s Home
It’s historically tragic to view the continuing deterioration of Britain, and see the ongoing abandonment of English common law in its own birthplace. What will it take for them to come to their senses?
The Media’s Biggest Nightmare
Losing control of the narrative. It’s long past time.
American Character
A half-century of unfettered expansion of entitlement outlays has completely inverted the priorities, structure and functions of federal administration as these were understood by all previous generations. Until 1960 the accepted task of the federal government, in keeping with its constitutional charge, was governing. The overwhelming share of federal expenditures was allocated to some limited public services and infrastructure investments and to defending the republic against enemies foreign and domestic.
In 1960, entitlement payments accounted for well under a third of the federal government’s total outlays—about the same fraction as in 1940, when the Great Depression was still shaping American life. But over subsequent decades, entitlements as a percentage of total federal spending soared. By 2010 they accounted for just about two-thirds of all federal spending, with all other responsibilities of the federal government making up barely one-third. In a very real sense, entitlements have turned American governance upside-down.
It’s not just a fiscal problem, or a governance problem. It’s a moral problem, when so many think that they are literally entitled to live off the productivity of others. It can’t go on, so, one way or the other, it won’t.