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The Left [1] doesn't like the Tea Party; not one little bit. No sirree bob! They're, by God, extreme ultra right-wing fascists; violence waiting to happen. They're a hate group. And racists to boot.
The list goes on. [2]
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Tea Party Metaphor and the Clueless Left
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The Left [1] doesn't like the Tea Party; not one little bit. No sirree bob! They're, by God, extreme ultra right-wing fascists; violence waiting to happen. They're a hate group. And racists to boot.
The list goes on. [2]
The Left [1] doesn't like the Tea Party; not one little bit. No sirree bob! They're, by God, extreme ultra right-wing fascists; violence waiting to happen. They're a hate group. And racists to boot.
The list goes on. [2]
Friday, August 19, 2011
APS Cheating Scandal: In No Way Excusable; In Every Way Predictable
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The Atlanta Public School (-teacher) cheating scandal, and similar reflections in other cities, points to the systemic corruption of the K-12 educational establishment. That corruption is especially prevalent in major metropolitan areas where affirmative action priorities [1] have reduced the level of competence and judgment of "educators" [2]. Crony Socialism (a redundant phrase) invites collusion between city bureaucracies with oversight and those overseen. To offer cash incentives for teaching and administrative performance within a system where incompetence has become the accepted standard, is to ask for trouble. Moral hazards and predictable outcomes.
The Atlanta Public School (-teacher) cheating scandal, and similar reflections in other cities, points to the systemic corruption of the K-12 educational establishment. That corruption is especially prevalent in major metropolitan areas where affirmative action priorities [1] have reduced the level of competence and judgment of "educators" [2]. Crony Socialism (a redundant phrase) invites collusion between city bureaucracies with oversight and those overseen. To offer cash incentives for teaching and administrative performance within a system where incompetence has become the accepted standard, is to ask for trouble. Moral hazards and predictable outcomes.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
What is the Vital Nexus Between Progressives and Islam?
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After puzzling for some time about the strong affinity between the Left and Muslims, [1] I think I have finally sorted it out.
The answer to the title question is a brief one, and for that reason, this promises to be a short essay. It is simply this: the two groups share a culture of entitlement and a conviction of their own innate superiority, on the one hand, and of right of dominion on the other. In a word, Progressives and Muslims have much in common.
After puzzling for some time about the strong affinity between the Left and Muslims, [1] I think I have finally sorted it out.
The answer to the title question is a brief one, and for that reason, this promises to be a short essay. It is simply this: the two groups share a culture of entitlement and a conviction of their own innate superiority, on the one hand, and of right of dominion on the other. In a word, Progressives and Muslims have much in common.Wednesday, August 17, 2011
European Riots and the Vision of Thomas Hobbes
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The rioting we have recently seen in Great Britain, Greece, Sweden, France and parts of Germany (not to mention the emergence of American "flash mobs") gives us a window into the future. A future that will surely come if the West persists in its determination to commit cultural suicide. The violence of mobs also invites us to look at the past, and, indeed at most of the world around us today.
Of the several points to be covered here I want to place special emphasis on this one: most of us in the West have lived so well for so long that we do not appreciate how fortunate we are. And we don't recognize than we are a tiny island in a vast sea of human predators who understand only existential conflict and brutality. They exist in established states which attempt to conceal murders, starvation, slave prisons and the near-total loss of liberty, and they exist openly in the killing fields of Rwanda and other African states. What good people know in these places we do not -- what it means to live in constant fear of other human beings.
The rioting we have recently seen in Great Britain, Greece, Sweden, France and parts of Germany (not to mention the emergence of American "flash mobs") gives us a window into the future. A future that will surely come if the West persists in its determination to commit cultural suicide. The violence of mobs also invites us to look at the past, and, indeed at most of the world around us today.
Of the several points to be covered here I want to place special emphasis on this one: most of us in the West have lived so well for so long that we do not appreciate how fortunate we are. And we don't recognize than we are a tiny island in a vast sea of human predators who understand only existential conflict and brutality. They exist in established states which attempt to conceal murders, starvation, slave prisons and the near-total loss of liberty, and they exist openly in the killing fields of Rwanda and other African states. What good people know in these places we do not -- what it means to live in constant fear of other human beings.
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