American links
Woman killed while phoning police for help. Via notebuyer.
Thinking about the “the Constitution is not a suicide pact” line.
The US government has rather a lot of people on various terrorism-watch lists. About the incentives that drive that.
An attack on American anti-intellectualism turns out to be another rant against ideas the author disagrees with. And she leaves a few things out.
Opponents of affirmative action are pushing for more state referenda.
How the rise of electoral conservatism in the 1970s shapes the modern US. William F. Buckley Jnr on how responsible conservatives worked to undermine the John Birch Society.
The Florida primary debacle isn’t getting better soon. A nicely written piece on the political hole the Democrats have got themselves in.
Sowell on Obama’s tendency to seek friends on the left edge of the American mainstream. Complaining that Obama-the-Presidential-aspirant is more pro-Israel than Obama-the-Chicago-pol was. On Barack Obama as race-bargainer. On his speech not moving things forward. As brilliant fraud. The problems with his previous characterisation of Rev. Wright and what folk can now see on YouTube™. As just another politician. Some Afro-American reactions. About his spiritual adviser of 20 years. Obama secures an important endorsement. A poll finds Obama’s speech on race went down well. With something like that, however, it is the down-the-track effects that are important.
Statistically, given the homicide statistics, one should be almost six times more fearful of a black American than a white American.
Thinking about the “the Constitution is not a suicide pact” line.
The US government has rather a lot of people on various terrorism-watch lists. About the incentives that drive that.
An attack on American anti-intellectualism turns out to be another rant against ideas the author disagrees with. And she leaves a few things out.
Opponents of affirmative action are pushing for more state referenda.
How the rise of electoral conservatism in the 1970s shapes the modern US. William F. Buckley Jnr on how responsible conservatives worked to undermine the John Birch Society.
The Florida primary debacle isn’t getting better soon. A nicely written piece on the political hole the Democrats have got themselves in.
Sowell on Obama’s tendency to seek friends on the left edge of the American mainstream. Complaining that Obama-the-Presidential-aspirant is more pro-Israel than Obama-the-Chicago-pol was. On Barack Obama as race-bargainer. On his speech not moving things forward. As brilliant fraud. The problems with his previous characterisation of Rev. Wright and what folk can now see on YouTube™. As just another politician. Some Afro-American reactions. About his spiritual adviser of 20 years. Obama secures an important endorsement. A poll finds Obama’s speech on race went down well. With something like that, however, it is the down-the-track effects that are important.
Statistically, given the homicide statistics, one should be almost six times more fearful of a black American than a white American.