For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
Postal Service to Cut Saturday Mail to Trim Costs
Steyn: When the assassin calls
Lars needed a gun.
My own insurance will be illegal next January
Krugman: We'll need death panels
Young Americans Are Left Behind In Obama's Economy
A generational tragedy.
"Should artists have to work?”
Goldberg: Education spending that isn't smart - Education is important and necessary for a host of reasons. But there's little evidence it drives growth.
Reverse Gramscianism:
Well I don’t fear cocaine. I don’t fear heroin. I don’t fear LSD. I don’t fear marijuana.
I do fear big government.
In Their Own Words: Climate Alarmists Debunk Their “Science”
Heavy Snow In Russia? That’s “Climate Change”
They predicted no more snow by now
Henninger: Obama's Thunderdome Strategy - The president's goal is to make Republican ideas intolerable.
On firearms, Obama makes no sense.
Reading Horowitz
His memoir, Radical Son, is a good read
Karl Rove and the Cotton Conservatives - Modern Day Whigs and the rise of the Party of Lincoln and Reagan.
More Thompson: "Readers may recall the comical Marxist Bea Campbell and her urge to see the population being enlisted by an egalitarian state, in which “emancipating governance” would be based, rather curiously, on greater state control."
Control is freedom
Waterboarding Bad, Assassination Good
More from Horowitz' good essay:
The weapons of political campaigns are images and sound bites
designed to inspire the emotions of fear and hope. Obama won the
presidency in 2008 on a campaign of hope; he won re-election in 2012 on a
campaign of fear.
Hope works, but fear is a much stronger and more compelling emotion.
In a political campaign, it is directed at one’s political opponent.
Democrats exploit this emotion to the hilt; Republicans often seem too
polite to even use it.
The other emotion, hope, is not only weaker, it is at odds with
conservatives’ basic pessimism, and their skepticism about political
solutions. Unlike progressives, conservatives don’t expect cosmic
results from political programs – saving the planet, creating a just
world. Consequently, for Republicans, hope is less effective as a
political appeal.
Sultan:
The Muslim Middle East is indeed changing, but it is changing back to
what it once was, casting off the last remains of modernity imported
from the West, and bringing back the reign of the Burqa, the sword and
the prophet. In the West time moves forward, in the East it only moves
backward. And so the spring will never come for Islam. Instead it will
act out the same bloody rituals of Jihad, the killing of infidels and
the civil wars, the slaves building civilizations, the masters molesting
young girls and then beating them to death out of fear that the
children might not be theirs.
The history of creeping gun control in England:
During the years in which the British government incrementally took away
most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed
self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism. Authorities refused to
grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that
self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun. Citizens
who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real
criminals were released. Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police
spokesman was quoted as saying, “We cannot have people take the law into
their own hands.”
