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By The P/Oed Patriot After I posted the Article this morning about the National Education Association (NEA) and their recommendation that their members read Saul Alinksy’s “Rules for Radicals”, I decided to do a little digging. It would appear that Alinsky is not the only Communist the NEA seems to hold in high regard. According to an Article in the World Net Daily (WND), the NEA is partial to the Communist leader Chairman Mao. On the NEA website, in the Diversity calendar, there was a posting on October 1st that read this: “OCT 1 Communist China Established In Tiananmen Square in 1949, Mao Zedong, Chairman…
In Impromptus today , I express a little disgust at something I found in Encyclopedia Britannica. I was needing some information about the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 — how many were killed, etc. And the relevant entry was headed “Tiananmen Square incident.” I found that word “incident” a little?.?.?.?weak. And a little outrageous. How dainty we are, when speaking of ChiCom mass murder! I have some follow-up thoughts. Should we refer to that …
From his newspaper: BEIJING — China, the world’s most prodigious emitter of greenhouse gas, continues to suffer the downsides of unbridled economic growth despite a raft of new environmental initiatives. The quality of air in Chinese cities is increasingly tainted by coal-burning power plants, grit from construction sites and exhaust from millions of new cars squeezing onto crowded roads, according to a government study issued this week. Other newly released figures show a jump in industrial accidents and an epidemic of pollution in waterways. The report’s most unexpected findings pointed to an increase in inhalable particulates in …
The New York Times highlights a new study by Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi on the effects of government policy on the recession: In a new paper, the economists argue that without the Wall Street bailout, the bank stress tests , the emergency lending and asset purchases by the Federal Reserve , and the Obama administration’s fiscal stimulus program, the nation’s gross domestic product would be about 6.5 percent lower this year. This is kind of like saying that without China, India, and Bulgaria, the world would have 2.4 billion fewer people. The Times is good enough to acknowledge as much: But the new analysis might not be of immediate solace to officials in the Obama administration, who have been trying to…
Mike , I’d certainly agree that it is important to be skeptical about skepticism, lest it become a dogma in its own right. As to the rest of that First Things piece , however,?I couldn’t really see where it was going –?other, perhaps, than into a willfully?blind alley –?but?maybe I missed something.? ? On your second point,?I?find it difficult?to attribute the rise of twentieth-century totalitarianism (even in part) to the?notion that the minds of those who might have pushed back against it had been somehow exhausted by excessive skepticism. If you look at the leaders of those movements, they were typically true believers…
Imagine if the government required automobile drivers to purchase liability insurance against the Worst Case Accident: totalling a 2010 Maybach Laundalet with four newly-minted orthopedic surgeons aboard. Worst case liability: $50 million or so. With a $50 million liability insurance requirement, who would drive? Only the wealthy. The Deepwater Horizon incident pointed up the inadequacy of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990’s $75 million economic liability limit for operations involving high pressure, high-volume deepwater oil. Some Congressional Democrats would like the liability cap to be set at $20 billion; some want no cap at all. They …
The Wikileaks documents, though very different and much less significant than the Pentagon Papers, could well wreak a great deal of damage and give comfort and assistance to the enemies of the West. The Taliban, its allies, and its sponsors across the border may well gain extremely useful information about U.S. and allied tactics. Moreover, the documents’ publication is also a death sentence for some of the named Afghan informants and assets in the leaked materials. Of course, as a genuine enemy of the United States who wants to see it defeated in Afghanistan and elsewhere, this is unlikely to trouble Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. He is one of those obsessive anti-American, hard-left…
From the Jerusalem Post : Russia turned on Iran, accusing it of “fruitless and irresponsible rhetoric” and adding its voice to a diplomatic assault Monday which included unilateral sanctions from both the EU and Canada, as well as warnings from Iran’s opposition party that Ahmadinejad’s regime could suffer the same fate as the deposed Shah. The Russian remark came after criticism from Tehran over Moscow’s support for UN sanctions…
The New York Times has a front-page story today on the growing momentum on Capitol Hill to cut defense spending. It is not surprising that in an age when the Democrats are showering money on almost every domestic initiative known to man, the one area they would seek spending cuts is the defense budget. ? By contrast, the one area where the GOP has traditionally supported increased government spending is national defense. With the brief exception of the ill-considered post–Cold War “peace dividend,” since the 1970s the Republican party has consistently supported increased investments in national defense. But now there are some troubling rumblings on the…
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers This week brought us a Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-umb) twin-spin of lunacy, race hustling and a dose of geographic ignorance. Jackson Lee, who continues to champion the cause of securing American women the same rights that women in China, Algeria, Afghanistan and Rwanda enjoy (okay American ladies, altogether now, “Thanks Sheila!”) , was in typical form at the NAACP convention this week. The convention was held in Kansas …
