Bookworm on Jan 29 2008 | Filed under: Abortion
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the societal problems fully legalized marijuana has brought to Holland. Those facts ran counter to the “marijuana is harmless compared to hard drugs” line of reasoning that has been used to justify legalizing marijuana. It now looks as if the “marijuana is less harmful than [...]
Bookworm on Jan 29 2008 | Filed under: Abortion, Free speech, Judges, Judicial activism
The Ninth Circuit, which is the laughing stock of the federal judiciary because it is overruled so often, did something bizarre yesterday: it issued a Constitutionally correct decision. Not only that, the decision meant that a citizens’ group will be able to engage in free speech that is contrary to the type of [...]
Bookworm on Oct 22 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I listened to a minute of the Michael Medved show and heard a Code Pink representative going on about how 24 year olds can’t be expected to understand their mortality and should not be trusted with a serious decision such as joining the military. (This is all apropos of the ongoing Code Pink attack against [...]
Bookworm on Oct 04 2007 | Filed under: Conservative ideology
Matt Bai has written a new book, The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics, which looks at the movers and shakers who are working hard to remake the Democratic party. It sounds like an interesting, well-written book, and one that anyone interested in American politics should read.
I learned about the [...]
Bookworm on Oct 03 2007 | Filed under: Abortion, Iraq, Islam, Jihad, Media matters, Multiculturalism, World War II
There’s a new movie out about “homegrown religious fundamentalists who kill in the name of God” — and Manolah Dargis, who writes movie reviews at The New York Times really wants to like it. You’ve got to admire Manolah. After all, who in America doesn’t want a solid documentary about the homegrown Western [...]
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