Beowulf, and when poetry mattered
Of course it does. Global warming causes swine flu. Yes, the earth has a fever - and it's contagious.
Admission: We do want to re-program your kids. Related, from 2008: Obama and Ayers pushed radicalism on schools.
Norway's socialist/totalitarian system The peasants like it.
Megan: Medicare is going to bankrupt us...which is why we need universal health care?
Insty:
MICHAEL BARONE: Obama offers security at the expense of liberty. Hey, isn’t that what they said about George W. Bush? Though at least Bush delivered on the security part. Obama, so far, not so much.
Judicial empathy and a recipe for lawlessness. Paul at Powerline
Quoted at Dr. Sanity on denial of evil:
At the heart of the denial that afflicts people like Ignatius is fear. They are afraid to believe that there are people in the world who embrace evil over good and death over life. Like many people in denial, Ignatius finds it far more comforting to believe that everyone is just like him -- basically well intentioned and occasionally misguided. However, Ignatius is wrong -- just as wrong as wrong can be -- and the whole of human history stands as witness to his error.
The Arctic is going to melt - any day now. Well, pretty soon. Related: Dems fully aware of economic havoc global warming legislation would cause. They want the havoc.
Everything about entitlement costs. Fun with charts at Q&O
Health care Trojan Horse. Coyote:
I have warned for years about government health care being a Trojan horse for government micro-management of personal behaviors. If government is paying the health care bills, then anything individual action or choice that can conceivably be linked to health are open to regulation.
VDH begins:
Today’s Americans inherited the wealthiest nation in history — but only because earlier generations learned how to feed, fuel, finance and defend themselves in ways unrivaled elsewhere.
Lately we have forgotten that and instead seem to expect others to do for us what we used to do ourselves.
Bill Ayers basking in his new notoriety. It begins:
There he was, Bill Ayers himself, sitting in a Marriott conference room waiting to partake in a session of the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The former Weatherman, "unapologetic" (his own word) fugitive from justice, and hot potato of the far left whose acquaintance with Barack Obama in Chicago during the 1990s and unrepentant boasting about Weatherman bombings at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol in the 1970s, prompted the Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to accuse Obama of "palling around with terrorists"--and the University of Nebraska to cancel a planned speech by Ayers last October.
No matter: Plenty of other colleges have been happy to have Ayers at their podia in light of his Obama connection and the attention-getting frisson of notoriety that he brings with him wherever he goes. Ayers is now a "distinguished" professor in the education school at the University of Illinois-Chicago and the author of numerous manifestoes and memoirs (his most recent, coauthored with his equally radical wife, Bernardine Dohrn, a law professor at Northwestern University, is Race Course: Against White Supremacy)...
