The Volokh Conspiracy - -
Does the Heller case recognize a constitutional right to self defense? Eugene Volokh thinks so.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
The Volokh Conspiracy - -
The Volokh Conspiracy - -
Does the Heller case recognize a constitutional right to self defense? Eugene Volokh thinks so.
Does the Heller case recognize a constitutional right to self defense? Eugene Volokh thinks so.
Don't tell me the media aren't pushing Obama...
3 Anchors to Follow Obama's Trek Abroad: "The three network anchors will travel to Europe and the Middle East next week for Barack Obama's trip, adding their high-wattage spotlight to what is already shaping up as a major media extravaganza.
Lured by an offer of interviews with the Democratic presidential candidate, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric will make the overseas trek, meaning that the NBC, ABC and CBS evening newscasts will originate from stops along the route and undoubtedly give it big play.
John McCain has taken three foreign trips in the past four months, all unaccompanied by a single network anchor."
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Read the ridiculous excuses they offer for this blatant flacking for The Man in the Empty Suit. He doesn't even have to pay them.
Lured by an offer of interviews with the Democratic presidential candidate, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric will make the overseas trek, meaning that the NBC, ABC and CBS evening newscasts will originate from stops along the route and undoubtedly give it big play.
John McCain has taken three foreign trips in the past four months, all unaccompanied by a single network anchor."
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Read the ridiculous excuses they offer for this blatant flacking for The Man in the Empty Suit. He doesn't even have to pay them.
Ordered? Say what?
World Court: U.S. must delay Mexican death sentences - Yahoo! News: "THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The World Court ordered the United States on Wednesday to do all it could to halt the imminent executions of five Mexicans until the court makes a final judgment in a dispute over suspects' rights."
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Since when does the World Court "order" the US around in matters of internal criminal justice?
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Since when does the World Court "order" the US around in matters of internal criminal justice?
Thursday, July 10, 2008
'The Dumbest Generation' by Mark Bauerlein - Los Angeles Times
'The Dumbest Generation' by Mark Bauerlein - Los Angeles Times: "In the four minutes it probably takes to read this review, you will have logged exactly half the time the average 15- to 24-year-old now spends reading each day. That is, if you even bother to finish. If you are perusing this on the Internet, the big block of text below probably seems daunting, maybe even boring. Who has the time? Besides, one of your Facebook friends might have just posted a status update! Such is the kind of recklessly distracted impatience that makes Mark Bauerlein fear for his country. 'As of 2008,' the 49-year-old professor of English at Emory University writes in 'The Dumbest Generation,' 'the intellectual future of the United States looks dim.'"
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Well...what say you to this critique of the Millennials? As one who has taught thousands of them, I have a few observations, all of which are generalizations. First, the stereotype that they are technologically sophisticated is nonsense. Apart from using simple consumer electronics that anybody can master, few of them fit that profile. All the majority of them can do is fiddle with cell phones, mp3 players, and and video games. So what?
Second, their knowledge of the world is distorted. They pick up cues from tv and movies and advertising and see things in them that I would miss. But they have no knowledge of history at all, and they don't keep up on current political events unless forced to. For example, many of them love Barack Obama but know practically nothing about his views or his background. They like his media image, and that is something they can read with ease.
Third, they are well-intentioned and community-oriented and would like to make the world a better place, but they have no interest in making major adjustments in their lives to accomplish that. The Obama campaign seems to get that they will sit in front of their computers and donate money and chit chat electronically, because they think that's a cool way to change the world, but that's about it.
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Well...what say you to this critique of the Millennials? As one who has taught thousands of them, I have a few observations, all of which are generalizations. First, the stereotype that they are technologically sophisticated is nonsense. Apart from using simple consumer electronics that anybody can master, few of them fit that profile. All the majority of them can do is fiddle with cell phones, mp3 players, and and video games. So what?
Second, their knowledge of the world is distorted. They pick up cues from tv and movies and advertising and see things in them that I would miss. But they have no knowledge of history at all, and they don't keep up on current political events unless forced to. For example, many of them love Barack Obama but know practically nothing about his views or his background. They like his media image, and that is something they can read with ease.
Third, they are well-intentioned and community-oriented and would like to make the world a better place, but they have no interest in making major adjustments in their lives to accomplish that. The Obama campaign seems to get that they will sit in front of their computers and donate money and chit chat electronically, because they think that's a cool way to change the world, but that's about it.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
His Lordship finds American rubes' inability to speak French embarrassing...
Gateway Pundit: L'Horreur!... Obama Embarrassed Americans Cannot Speak French On Our Vacations to Europe (Video)
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You have to watch the video to get the flavor of this--the sneering, elitist tone. How many languages does His Majesty speak, and his kids, and his wife, I wonder? Obama sees most Americans as a bunch of hicks.
Global Warming Delusion Syndrome?
Doomed to a fatal delusion over climate change | Herald Sun: "'A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne with an eight-month history of depressed mood . . . He also . . . had visions of apocalyptic events.'
'The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies.'"
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But this is pretty much what the public schools and the news media keep telling us, isn't it?
'The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies.'"
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But this is pretty much what the public schools and the news media keep telling us, isn't it?
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Sharia law SHOULD be used in Britain, says UK's top judge | Mail Online
Sharia law SHOULD be used in Britain, says UK's top judge | Mail Online: "The most senior judge in England tonight gave his blessing to the use of sharia law to resolve disputes among Muslims.
Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips said that Islamic legal principles could be employed to deal with family and marital arguments and to regulate finance."
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Amazing.
Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips said that Islamic legal principles could be employed to deal with family and marital arguments and to regulate finance."
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Amazing.
Obama flip-flops on Iraq withdrawal
Obama to refine Iraq plan - Mike Allen - Politico.com: "Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Thursday backed off his firm promise to withdraw combat forces from Iraq immediately, and instead said he could “refine” his plan after his trip to Baghdad later this month.
Earlier, a top Obama adviser had said that the senator is not “wedded” to a specific timeline."
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Are we getting anywhere near the point where people see this guy for what he is?
Earlier, a top Obama adviser had said that the senator is not “wedded” to a specific timeline."
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Are we getting anywhere near the point where people see this guy for what he is?
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
And another one's gone, another one's gone, another one bites the dust...
Obama takes a shot at Moveon.org
The pavement under the Obama bus is getting crowded. Latest to be chucked under it: the radical 527 group funded by billionaire socialist lunatic George Soros (the European convicted crook who is far and away the single most important person in the Democratic Party's left wing, and who most Americans have never heard of). These folks are among his strongest supporters. Moveon.org landed on top of Wesley Clark, who yesterday was chucked on top of Father Pfleger, Reverend Wright, Obama's grandmother, and the positions Obama once held on gun control, NAFTA, telecom immunity under FISA, public financing of the presidential election campaign, and a few other things.
The question is, when if ever does the press publicly connect the dots and identify Senator "New Politics" Obama as a typical politician, and perhaps one who is less principled than many?
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