I have long heard the argument that homosexuality is "unnatural" and hence inherently inferior to heterosexuality.  And it is certainly true that, were all or even a great minority of humans homosexual, the ability of the human race to replace its numbers without extreme technological intervention would be at serious risk.  The argument then goes ( Read more... )

From Daniel Greenfield, "Government Is Magic," Sultan Knish, October 27th, 2013:

Our technocracy is detached from competence. It's not the technocracy of engineers, but of "thinkers" who read Malcolm Gladwell and Thomas Friedman and watch TED talks and savor the flavor of competence, without ever imbibing its substance.

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The ObamaCare ( Read more... )

Expanded from a reply to a post in jaylake's journal ("Where should the rules come from?")

The problem is that the examples offered of attempted atheist reorganizations of society, in particular totalitarian Communism but also (for some values of "atheism") various kinds of Fascism, are frightening. Not so much because a society with atheist roots has to ( Read more... )

Back at the start of the Terrorist War, some people pointed out that the Muslims hated us for our freedoms.  And this was promptly shouted down by the Left as too simplistic ( Read more... )

James Lewis, in "The Lesson of an Affirmative Action President" (American Thinker, http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/the_lesson_of_an_affirmative_a.html) make the point that America elected Obama largely because he was black, without ( Read more... )

Mark Steyn said something very insightful in his essay "Check Please!" (http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/2045/26) originally published in National Review.

Referring to the European Union:

Well, all power has limits. Today, the salient feature of the modern world ( Read more... )

Michael Ledeen, with this salient post on the condition of women in the Mideast:

http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2008/08/27/the-women/

I particularly like his comment about the Western attitude in this regard:

There is no clearer sign of the ( Read more... )

Burt Prelutsky, at Townhall

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BurtPrelutsky/2008/05/12/why_jews_vote_the_way_they_do

says:

If I am asked one question by my readers far more frequently than any other, it’s why do so many ( Read more... )

From Afif Sarhan and Caroline Davies in The Observer:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/11/iraq

Iraqi singers, actors and artists are fleeing the country after dozens have been killed by Islamic radicals determined to eradicate all culture associated with the ( Read more... )

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