The Liberal solution is always more government. Hubris and power-seeking are their problems. Their shame is their distrust in the peoples' ability to run their own lives: maybe some cannot or will not, but I do not like to be governed as if I were the lowest common denominator.
Is anything anybody does "Interstate commerce"? Montana and guns
How competition, not regulation, could transform American medicine.
Why the Dreamliner, Boeing's cool new plastic airplane, is two years late
Semi-related: This is a good time to be the market for an airplane. I wish. But I am an oppressed wage slave (wage + bonus slave) of the Capitalist System and thus will not get my own personal G4 until Obama gives me one. Still waiting.
Will global cooling damage Al Gore's cred?
The WaPo wants you to bail out California. Who's gonna bail me out?
Ralph Peters:
...the strongest response Obama can muster to the blood in Tehran's streets is: "I am deeply troubled by the violence that I've been seeing on television." How bold, how manly, how inspiring . . .
Geert Wilders' June 14 speech about preventing the Islamization of Europe. h/t, Theo
Walpin update at Insty
A new church: The Anglican Church in North America. Hmmm. If, unlike the Brit Anglicans, they seek faith in God and want to save souls, good on 'em.
Via Am Digest at Belmont Club, Home, sweet home:
Communism was never about crafting a Worker's Paradise; it was always about creating a place of unlimited power for those who craved it: not the toiler's Home, but the second rate intellectual's.
Rebecca Bynum asks whether Islam is a religion. One quote:
...you’re right to be wary of the strength of religion. Religion is the most powerful force in human affairs, bar none. Ideology alone doesn’t come close. Religion is the prime mover because religion forms the basis of a shared worldview. From this basic worldview grows culture and from culture societal structures are formed and the final fruits of this process are political systems. Our culture, social affairs and politics are ultimately anchored in morality and morality is anchored in the basic world view derived from religion.
Religion answers the primal question, what is the nature of reality? Do we inhabit a benevolent universe, a malevolent universe, or an indifferent universe? This is not trivial question and its answer determines the basis of all human interaction.
