Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
When my kids were at their old preschool, the school hired a very pleasant teaching assistant. At the end of a year, she suddenly showed up at school in a headscarf. The school was in a quandary. A lot of the parents, especially the mothers of the little girls, were
Continue readingLong time readers may recognize the following, which is a recycled post from February 2005 (when I was still on Blogger). At the bottom, I’ll explain why I’m resurrecting it: Remember from playground days how, when someone was picking on your little brother, you’d rush over to defend him, and
Continue readingMy personal feeling is that, while Obama may one day turn into a something, right now he’s pretty much a nothing: a very intelligent, but as yet untried man, with limited experience, and superficial views. What I’m gathering, though, is that on the Left, this very blankness is what makes
Continue readingMy child came home yesterday with yet another spelling worksheet that contained a misspelling. But that’s not why I’m writing. She also came home with a math worksheet containing complicated problems she’d gotten wrong, and it was clear that the teacher had never bothered to enlighten her about the isues
Continue readingI’ve known about it all day, and almost didn’t blog about it, since news gets stale so quickly. Nevertheless, it seemed almost morally wrong not to applaud the Dutch for their recent moment of spine: they’ve banned the burqa. The Dutch government agreed on Friday a total ban on the
Continue readingOver at American Thinker, you can read about Nyamko Sabuni, Sweden’s new Integration and Equality Minister. Contrary to the Orwellian overtones in that title, Ms. Sabuni, a Muslim, is vocally opposed to female circumcision and arranged marriages, among other things. The American Thinker squiblet takes Ms. Sabuni’s appointment as the
Continue readingAs you know, there is a big debate going on in England right now about the veil. Those who support the veil are framing this support in terms of religious freedom. However, veils are not an integral part of the Muslim religion. Instead, they are a product of Arab culture.
Continue readingWe Americans are very respectful of other people’s cultures. The old “ugly American” of 1950s stereotypes died on college campuses in the 1960s, to be replaced by the multiculturalist, PC American who would never dream of challenging the way in which another culture conducts itself. The most recent example of
Continue readingOn its face, it looks like an article in the New York Times that points out something we have figured out already; namely, that the Europeans have been nursing a viper to their bosom: Europe appears to be crossing an invisible line regarding its Muslim minorities: more people in the
Continue readingI haven’t blogged about multiculturalism in quite a while, so those new to this blog may not know that it is one of my pet peeves, an enormous, angry bee buzzing in my intellectual bonnet. I think it is the root cause of the disuniting of America, with its effort
Continue readingSometimes, you stumble across an expert who has such manifest expertise, it might be a grave mistake to ignore him. And sometimes, if you’re not the stumbling kind, you’re lucky enough to have someone tell you how to find information from that expert. Thanks to Kevin, I can tell you
Continue readingMany years ago, when I lived in England, I brought my roommates (or, should I say, flatmates) to convulsive laughter when I announced that the 1960s happened in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district — and nowhere else. In my parochialism, I was completely unaware of the whole "Swingin' London" scene of
Continue readingDems have, for decades, shown how little they think of the African-Americans who constitute their most loyal and reliable constitutents. In statement after statement, and policy after policy, they show that they believe African-Americans to be incapable of caring for themselves without government intervention; incapable of making educational strides without
Continue readingThose familiar with my writing know that, while I haven't touched upon it in a while, a particularly hate multiculturalism, which I believe is one of the great cancers eating away at Western culture. To me, it has nothing to do with respecting the cultures of others, and everything to
Continue readingThe whole Cynthia McKinney kerfuffle is a distillation of entitlement run amok. McKinney, who belongs to a "protected" group (several, actually, since she's black, female and anti-Semitic), feels that she is entitled to treatment denied others: she is entitled to refuse to wear her Congressional badge, which alerts the Capitol
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