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Monthly Archives: July 2010
The Perils of Arrogance
Well, welll, well…this is the first essay I have come across in ages that embodies scholastic thought, from a conservative viewpoint, that didn’t appear on First Principles. Professor Codevilla, articulately and comprehensively nails the conflict of interest between what he calls the country … Continue reading
A time to act
A great editorial by Bill Kristol. Last month, we published an editorial under the title “A Period of Consequences.” The phrase was taken from a speech in the House of Commons in late 1936 in which Winston Churchill warned: “The … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, History, Political Thought, War
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You need a chart to figure this out?
For Ezra Klein, the light bulb is starting to come on. Evidently for this to happen, the prestigious Brookings Institute had to compile data on the ratio of months required to close job gap:assumed number of jobs required per month … Continue reading
Posted in American Society, Current Events, Economics
Tagged Census Workers, unemployment
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Compexity and Collapse
Could the demise of American power be much closer and far more sudden than we’d like to think? Most of us, especially historians, prefer to see the demise of great powers or Empires as passing through discernable stages. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Reviews, History, Western Society
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MySpace should now be called, "MyRace."
Just when you thought terms like “white flight” were only restricted to the real world. Think again. According to MIT’s Technology Review, there is a gentrification of Facebook caused by a Caucasian mass exodus from the so-called digital ghetto of … Continue reading
Illegal Immigration: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Our friend Steve, author of the Michigan based political blog, The Motor CityTimes, pointed out an article too me yesterday which I found quite intriguing. Appearing in the magazine, “Good,” the article makes a two fold argument. First is that supposedly many … Continue reading
Oh…it's on: DOJ sues Arizona over SB 1070.
In federal court today, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit challenging Arizona’s S.B. 1070. The intent of their argument was to request a preliminary injunction which will temporarily halt the statute’s enforcement while the case is being argued and a later one completely abolishing it. … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, American Society, Current Events, Opinion
Tagged Arizona, Department of Justice, illegal immigration, SB 1070
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To boldly send NASA to irrelevancy
Obama is determined to recognize Muslim accomplishments in science and math even if he has to move back the line of modernity several centuries in order to do it. By the demands of Western Guilt, NASA is no longer an … Continue reading
Five Books
I was just introduced to a noteworthy website, via an American Spectator interview with the governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels. This site is called Five Books and everyday they host a thinker, scholar, academic, politician, etc. who recommends five reads … Continue reading
Obama will have to face the Court again and this time it will have the last word
President Obama made it clear he is not a big fan of separation of powers, especially when that power is against his own, by delivering vociferous comments towards the Supreme Court at his State of the Union address in January. … Continue reading
Happy Independence Day!
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Matthew Yglesias: Fiscal Illiterate contd.,
To re-cap, we have a senior blogger–Matthew Yglesias–from Think Progress weakly attempting to facilitate the meme that if Congress and/or the President do nothing legislatively our country’s debt crisis will alleviate itself. Even in this highly ridiculous and unlikely scenario were to … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, American Society, Current Events, Economics, Essays, History
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The Texas GOP went there
Texas GOP Platform Bans Homosexuality From our friends at Newsy. http://www.newsy.com/videos/player.swf?related=http://new.newsy.com/api/get-related-videos/2434/10/&file=http://www.newsy.com/api/get-video/2434/&video_name= Multisource political news, world news, and entertainment news analysis by Newsy.com
Posted in American Politics, American Society
Tagged discrimination, homosecual rights, law, Texas GOP, Texas Politics
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