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A Florida State Senator has to be informed that animal husbandry does not mean marrying animals
The new Attorney-General of Alaska is, um, less than inspiring: “Numerous comments were made that were appalling, not the least of which were remarks by Mr. Ross which included the following; “If a guy can’t rape his wife…who’s he gonna rape?” and “There wouldn’t be an issue with domestic violence if women would learn to keep their mouths shut.”
FBI report suggests that 80% of US crime is gang-related.
Ward Churchill is suing for his job back.
The University of Delaware, which previously attracted attention for its attempts to make niceness compulsory, is still at it.
The Democrat attack machine in operation.
Suggesting that much of the Congressional Democratic Party has become disconnected from the private sector.
Former Governor of Illinois indicted.
The collapse of the conviction of former Republican Senator for Alaska raises more than a few issues. More.
Dubya isn’t going to criticise his successor. But he will thank wounded veterans on a cycling tour.
On not falling prey to Obama Derangement Syndrome.
The Obama Administration is apparently unavailable to allies but really want to talks to …
Someone should explain to President Obama that one head of state does not bow to another.
A poll finds that 53% of Americans think capitalism is better than socialism, 20% think the reverse and 27% are not sure.
About the genealogy of anti-Americanism: Not only does anti-Americanism make rational discussion impossible, it threatens the idea of a community of interests between Europe and America. Indeed, it threatens the idea of the West itself. According to the most developed views of anti-Americanism, there is no community of interests between the two sides of the Atlantic because America is a different and alien place. To "prove" this point without using such obvious, value-laden terms as "degeneracy" or the "site of catastrophe," proponents invest differences that exist between Europe and America with a level of significance all out of proportion with their real weight. …
Hardly any reasonable person today would dismiss the seriousness of many of the challenges that have been raised against "modernity." Nor would any reasonable person deny that America, as one of the most modern and the most powerful of nations, has been the effective source of many of the trends of modernity, which therefore inevitably take on an American cast. But it is possible to acknowledge all of this without identifying modernity with a single people or place, as if the problems of modernity were purely American in origin or as if only Europeans, and not Americans, have been struggling with the question of how to deal with them. Anti-Americanism has become the lazy person's way of treating these issues. It allows those using this label to avoid confronting some of the hard questions that their own analysis demands be asked.
The new Attorney-General of Alaska is, um, less than inspiring: “Numerous comments were made that were appalling, not the least of which were remarks by Mr. Ross which included the following; “If a guy can’t rape his wife…who’s he gonna rape?” and “There wouldn’t be an issue with domestic violence if women would learn to keep their mouths shut.”
FBI report suggests that 80% of US crime is gang-related.
Ward Churchill is suing for his job back.
The University of Delaware, which previously attracted attention for its attempts to make niceness compulsory, is still at it.
The Democrat attack machine in operation.
Suggesting that much of the Congressional Democratic Party has become disconnected from the private sector.
Former Governor of Illinois indicted.
The collapse of the conviction of former Republican Senator for Alaska raises more than a few issues. More.
Dubya isn’t going to criticise his successor. But he will thank wounded veterans on a cycling tour.
On not falling prey to Obama Derangement Syndrome.
The Obama Administration is apparently unavailable to allies but really want to talks to …
Someone should explain to President Obama that one head of state does not bow to another.
A poll finds that 53% of Americans think capitalism is better than socialism, 20% think the reverse and 27% are not sure.
About the genealogy of anti-Americanism: Not only does anti-Americanism make rational discussion impossible, it threatens the idea of a community of interests between Europe and America. Indeed, it threatens the idea of the West itself. According to the most developed views of anti-Americanism, there is no community of interests between the two sides of the Atlantic because America is a different and alien place. To "prove" this point without using such obvious, value-laden terms as "degeneracy" or the "site of catastrophe," proponents invest differences that exist between Europe and America with a level of significance all out of proportion with their real weight. …
Hardly any reasonable person today would dismiss the seriousness of many of the challenges that have been raised against "modernity." Nor would any reasonable person deny that America, as one of the most modern and the most powerful of nations, has been the effective source of many of the trends of modernity, which therefore inevitably take on an American cast. But it is possible to acknowledge all of this without identifying modernity with a single people or place, as if the problems of modernity were purely American in origin or as if only Europeans, and not Americans, have been struggling with the question of how to deal with them. Anti-Americanism has become the lazy person's way of treating these issues. It allows those using this label to avoid confronting some of the hard questions that their own analysis demands be asked.