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Walker and Wisconsin: A coming moment of clarity
To anyone who relishes empirical verification, the belated Wisconsin union votes are particularly satisfying–not so much on their substance, however welcome that is, but because they create a very clean test: What really does the public think about government unions? … Continue reading
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King’s Domestic Terrorism Hearing: The Left Cooperates
Liberals and the left attacked Congressman Peter King’s hearing yesterday on the radicalization of American Muslims and the alleged growing threat of domestic terrorism on the following ground alone: “It is bigoted to focus the hearing exclusively on Muslims. The … Continue reading
NPR CEO resignation: possibly the right outcome, definitely the wrong reason
I take it as a given that NPR’s feature reporting and programs like On the Media are pervaded with liberal bias. NPR will cover every cop shooting if any fringe element in a community claims racial bias by the cops, … Continue reading
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God and Taxes
It’s always worth remembering that there is a religious left too. Amongst its prominenti are the ‘social justice’ Christians of Jim Wallis’ Sojourners group, a public nuisance for years. Contemplating the nation’s budgetary woes, the Sojourners are now asking “What … Continue reading
Muslim denial about what being Muslim is about
A big issue that we have in the “public discourse” today is that we allow Muslims to talk about their religion in a way that we (“we” here meaning the mainstream) would not tolerate from white evangelical Christians (though we … Continue reading
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The law of Arab averages
We’ve seen the secular face of the revolutions so far (though if the Bahrain popular revolt succeeds I can’t see how it wouldn’t be more religiously inflected), but how long was this going to last? Yemen, the most backward of … Continue reading
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Familiarity in Europe
Swedes Begin to Question Liberal Migration Tenets: But increasingly, Swedes are questioning these policies. Last fall, the far-right party — campaigning largely on an anti-immigration theme — won 6 percent of the vote and, for the first time, enough support … Continue reading
Way To Go
[Cross-posted to The Corner] Taoism (which we are nowadays supposed to write as “Daoism,” though neither spelling is more correct than the other) is the country cousin of major world religions: generally thought to be long on gaudy superstition and … Continue reading
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The 2012 budget: A BS-detector
Why doesn’t President Obama call the Republicans’ bluff? His 2012 budget ducks any significant entitlement cuts, and ignores the recommendations of his bipartisan deficit commission. Obama’s budget director explains that the administration is not willing to make the first move … Continue reading
Japan disses diversity
Japan’s slippage from the world’s number two economy to number three will likely unleash more criticism of its highly restrictive immigration policies, especially from the New York Times. It’s hard to think of a greater repudiation of the American public … Continue reading