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Category Archives: Social Commentary
A Defense Of The Humanities
This is not what Chad Orzel wants.
I think that he misses another point — that what “the humanities” have gotten badly watered down over the decades, since the New Left took over campi, lacking rigor and polluted by all the “studies” majors.
[Afternoon update]
This seems related: Ten questions for Camille Paglia. She is a national treasure.
Scott Walker’s “Insidious Agnosticism”
Ann Althouse takes the odious Dana Milbank to the wood shed.
It’s quite amusing to see all these non-Christians in the media (almost literally) pontificating on who is and isn’t Christian. It reminds me of the radio interview I had with Thom Hartmann a few years ago, when he tried to insist that McVeigh was a Christian terrorist. I said, no, he said himself that he was agnostic. “But wasn’t he born a Christian,” he asked, as though it was a race? Ultimately, he had to back down.
As I’ve noted on Twitter, Walker’s response is exactly right. He can’t know whether Barack Obama is a Christian, though there’s little good evidence that he is, or ever has been. As it says in 1 Corinthians 2:11, “For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them?”
[Update a few minutes later]
Walker himself responds on his refusal to take the media’s bait:
There has been much discussion about a media double standard where Republicans are covered differently than Democrats, asked to weigh in on issues the Democrats don’t face. As a result, when we refuse to take the media’s bait, we suffer.
I felt it this week when I was asked to weigh in on what other people said and did and what others’ beliefs are. If you are looking for answers to those questions, ask those people.
Yes, and it infuriates them that they can’t get a gaffe out of him, and so they have to manufacture one.
Babies On Mars
My thoughts, from almost two years ago.
Agreeing With Rudy
Only 47% of the country thinks that Obama loves it.
A Political Quiz
I came out a conservatarian.
Guns
Fourteen things everyone should understand. Particularly journalists.
Asians Are Figuring Out The Score
When it comes to discrimination against them in academia, they’re the new Jews.
No, It’s Not Poverty That Encourages Terrorism
…it’s welfare. As noted, this is not new.