It's Boxing Day. Why is it called that? It's not clear. We should call it Clean-up ye Olde Cabin Day.
The Scarlet Letter. Dr. Helen (pictured) explains it.
Freud's affair with his sister-in-law. Does anyone care? Besides Peter Gay, that is?
Department of Lefties=Fascists: Driscoll
It only takes about five minutes to figure out how the press lies about polls and statistics. Powerline. At least the papers didn't headline "Most believe religion the work of Satan." But they came close.
Woops. Moonbats got the date wrong. Whatever.
Those dang Christmas Carols annoyed Brit unions. I can understand being annoyed by the Christmas songs - but never by the carols. My problem with the carols is that I know them so well that I can forget to hear the astonishing words. Same with the Lord's Prayer.
Would you take the Chunnel this week? I wouldn't.
Fear of Romney. Romneyphobia? He is pretty good. Town Hall
Americans are forced to be generous, because their government is so stingy, claim Canadians. How is that for a distortion designed to salvage one's self-esteem and to assuage one's conscience?
Hitler on Federalism. Volokh's piece begins thus:
One of the relatively few underanalyzed major topics in the extensive academic literature on federalism is the relationship between federalism and totalitarianism. A potential advantage of decentralized federalism is that it might serve as an obstacle to the establishment of an oppressive totalitarian state. Yet most scholars have largely ignored this possibility. One writer who didn't, however, was Adolf Hitler, who had this to say on the subject in Chapter 10 of Mein Kampf (which is devoted to German federalism):
"Might serve"? Definitely serves. That was the original deal, aka the US Constitution. The piece is here. We agree with the point which is made. Centralized power is always a threat to freedom - even when it is elected. It is in the nature of government to accrue power, using any excuse at hand. FDR was the worst criminal, in this regard. The Civil War and Jim Crow gave state's rights a bad name, but I am inclined to believe that, generally, states and localities have the right to be wrong sometimes. That is part of what freedom is meant to guarantee.
Neither wisdom, nor common sense, resides in Washington, DC; it resides elsewhere - in our people in our towns. Washington, DC obtains its power from the income tax, and the ignominious power of vote-buying with OPM.
But many will vote away their personal freedom for a bowl of lentils, especially when they feel spiritually and personally uncertain, frail, and lacking in a "support system".
Try some of our Christmas YouTubes - scroll down. Nice selection, Bird Dog. I can think of 100 you omitted, though.
