Tag Archive 'England'
Bookworm on Feb 05 2013 | Filed under: Britain, Second Amendment
Tweet Defending your home against a break-in is about as personal as it gets. The following email is a good example of taking that personal principle, then expanding to a narrative about a single third party, and finally discussing the broader policy implications that affect all citiziens (h/t Earl): A LESSON FROM HISTORY: You’re sound [...]
Bookworm on Jan 22 2013 | Filed under: Britain, England
Tweet It’s no wonder Brits, contra Obama, want out of the EU. Aside from exerting nit-picky control over every aspect of British life, the EU makes it virtually impossible for Britain to stem the endless tide of immigrants coming in, legally or not, and immediately getting public benefits that are not available to the Brits [...]
Bookworm on Jan 11 2013 | Filed under: Second Amendment
Tweet Words matter, President Obama once said. He’s right. How we choose words gives a very good insight into our feelings upon the subject under discussion. In the current debate regarding the Second Amendment, conservatives have made the mistake of ceding oratorical control to the Left. How? By accepting the phrase “gun control” as the [...]
Bookworm on Dec 26 2012 | Filed under: Second Amendment
Tweet Because this is Marin and I am not a hermit, I frequently find myself in conversation with Democrats. It was to be expected, therefore, that conversation over the Christmas holiday would end up revolving around gun control. These conversations were disheartening on all sides. My friends concluded that I support wild-eyed mass murderers, since [...]
Bookworm on Dec 07 2012 | Filed under: Britain, Japan, Second Amendment
Tweet (I find that I’m too thrifty not to get the most mileage out of my writing. People who get my newsletter — and if you don’t, you can fill out the subscription form to the right — will have seen this post already, but I couldn’t resist a slightly wider audience for it.) I [...]
Bookworm on Nov 29 2012 | Filed under: America
Tweet I thought about Margaret Thatcher today. Lord knows, she was something. Brilliant, indomitable, focused, feisty, witty, and absolutely convinced of her right-ness and righteousness. She was the un-RINO. Her unswerving commitment to her principles enabled her to turn England around. We forget that sometimes, because the Labor party managed to take her legacy and [...]
Bookworm on Mar 29 2012 | Filed under: Britain, England, Free speech
Tweet I’ve been following a free speech story out of England and have been meaning to blog about it. Since the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, I never did get around to writing that post. Fortunately, someone else did, and a whole lot better than I would have done so.
Bookworm on Mar 22 2012 | Filed under: Britain, England, Second Amendment
Tweet Perhaps I’m misunderstanding things here, but as I read this article, five British police officers got badly mauled by a single dog because none had a gun. It wasn’t until a SWAT team arrived that the attack ended. In America, the police are minutes away when seconds count. In England, the police are there, [...]
Bookworm on Feb 09 2012 | Filed under: Britain, Health
Tweet When I lived in England, those who could afford to escape from government medicine by paying twice did so. I addition to their high taxes, they bought a private insurance that I remember rejoiced in the name BUPA. Things haven’t changed. I don’t know why I’m on the mailing list, but I just got [...]
Bookworm on Feb 04 2012 | Filed under: Britain
Tweet Have you watched Downton Abbey yet? Or perhaps a better question is, have you even heard of Downton Abbey? I’ve been aware of it for a couple of years, because I read Britain’s Daily Mail. The show has been a monster hit there and, during the season, the Daily Mail has a steady stream [...]
Bookworm on Jan 09 2012 | Filed under: Britain
Tweet The British are starting to wake up to a problem in the Midlands and in Yorkshire. Pakistani men are cultivating and pimping non-Pakistani British girls. This video explains more: Hat tip: FrontPage Magazine This problem has been obvious to many of us who have followed blogs that Chronicle the way in which Muslim men [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2011 | Filed under: Britain, England
Tweet A few stories from England’s Daily Mail, all showing that the country is not in the best of health. Each of these stories highlights, not the horrible things individuals can do, because those crimes transcend national boundaries, but the way in which England has rendered itself unable to react in any way to the [...]
Bookworm on Feb 11 2011 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, England
Tweet As the younger citizens limit their involvement to videotaping a crime in progress (“Oooh, won’t this look cool when I show it to my friends”), a 71 year old grandmother, Ann Timson, acts with extraordinary — and effective — courage: You can read more about Timson here.
Danny Lemieux on Jan 27 2011 | Filed under: Economics, Education, England, Europe, Socialism, Uncategorized
Tweet As we settle into the Obama Depression era, one thing that I and others have noticed is that many of the very youth that voted enthusiastically for Obama are the ones already feeling the consequence of his policies: they are unemployed. As one of my college-age kids put it, “our generation is so over [...]
Bookworm on May 04 2010 | Filed under: Britain, England, Free speech, GBLT, Homosexuality
Tweet In 1931, Nancy Langhorne Astor’s son Robert Gould Shaw III was arrested for committing a homosexual act (in a park, I believe). This was a continuation of a long-standing British public policy of prosecuting “sodomists.” Arguably the most famous prosecution was that against Oscar Wilde, for public indecency. The trial, scandal and imprisonment destroyed [...]
Bookworm on Apr 23 2010 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet Yes, my friends, it’s matched set time again. I just love pairing stories (or, here, a prescient video and a current story), for your enjoyment and edification. I’ll start first with a couple of stories that have their genesis in San Francisco and that have made it to the media this past week. I’ve [...]
Bookworm on Mar 02 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Britain, England
Tweet England is not one of my favorite places anymore, because of the raging antisemitism that characterizes her politics and her street. Nevertheless, she is our ally and has been our staunch ally for more than a century. For Obama to abandon her over the Falklands is disgusting. At Power Line, in a few words, [...]
Bookworm on Jan 12 2010 | Filed under: Britain, England
Tweet A few days ago, I posted about the fact that, in England, it is illegal to defend yourself against an attack within your own home. I shouldn’t have gotten so upset about the whole thing. You see, it seems that I was operating from a ridiculous premise, which is that one actually has legal [...]
Bookworm on Jan 09 2010 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, England, Second Amendment
Tweet One of the most basic principles of Anglo-Saxon common law is a homeowner’s right to defend himself against intruders. Oh, wait! That’s not quite true anymore. In England, which practically gave its name to the notion that “a man’s home is his castle,” homeowner self-defense is against the law (emphasis mine): Myleene Klass, the [...]
Bookworm on Jan 01 2010 | Filed under: Britain, Education, Elections, England, Political correctness
Tweet When parents think about what a school should do for their children, they think in terms of the three “Rs,” plus a lovely layering of science, history, and other subjects that maketh a full (and employable) man. The politically correct Nanny State, however, cares little for education and a great deal for ideology. It [...]
Bookworm on Dec 21 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, Religion
Tweet Two views of moral behavior, one from the source, and one from an English divine: God: Thou shalt not steal. (Exodus 20:15) A priest in England: It is far better for people desperate during the recession to shoplift than turn to ‘prostitution, mugging or burglary’. It is true that, under Jewish law, Jews in [...]
Bookworm on Dec 18 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England
Tweet If I were devising a citizenship test for Great Britain, I can think of some things I would ask. Broadly, I would ask about her history (what makes Britain British?), her form of government (details about Parliamentary Democracy), and the duties of a citizen. But you see, I’m not writing the test one needs [...]
Bookworm on Dec 08 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England
Tweet Britain’s NHS, which is government-run (i.e., Communist) medicine, has, unsurprisingly, Communist outcomes. Lots of people die unnecessarily in England under the government’s beneficent care: British health care is little better than that of former Communist countries, which spend a fraction of the billions poured into the NHS. A survey published yesterday by the Organisation [...]
Bookworm on Nov 21 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, World War II
Tweet Disillusioned members of the World War II generation state honestly that, had the England that now exists been the England in 1939, they would not have believed it was a country worth saving. Most feel that their fellow veterans, those who died in the fight, are rolling in their graves as they look at [...]
Bookworm on Nov 18 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, Health
Tweet Just so you know, Britain, the ne plus ultra of single payer care, is having a little bit of death panel trouble: Liver cancer sufferers are being condemned to an early death by being denied a new drug on the Health Service, campaigners warn. They criticised draft guidance that will effectively ban the drug [...]
