Essay
Over on Dust in the Light I’ve explained that Terri Schiavo’s life has become a legitimate matter of interest for millions of Americans, and that it is our First Amendment right to demand that Congress do everything in its power to answer our grievance. Every court case does not get an appeal to Congress, but…
Rocco DiPippo has a piece on FrongPageMag investigating Montclair State University’s Grover Furr — professor of (apparently) Leftism. From the extended version that Rocco has published on his blog: … the reader might have concluded that Professor Furr, by spreading disinformation, pushing Marxism and communism on his students, and advocating for one of mankind’s greatest…
I was going to respond to a letter by Jayne Platt: We can call and write our representatives. I do, I really do. Should I quit my job and babysit the Assembly, watching every bill that comes to the floor? Then, I ask, why should I vote? Stopping a self-serving, destructive bill needs to be…
Warren Beatty has suggested that Governor Schwarzenegger raise taxes on the rich: Schwarzenegger should raise taxes on the California rich and “terminate” his fund-raising and dinners with “the brokers of Wall Street” and the “lobbyists of K Street,” Beatty said… Beatty said Schwarzenegger should lead the rich toward helping California. “It’s called the haves giving…
This posting continues a periodic series on Rhode Island politics and taxation, building on ten previous postings (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI). Ed Achorn of the ProJo is back with another thoughtful commentary that deserves to be shared and read in its entirety: Last week, I sat in on…
This posting builds on three previous ones about the Naked Public Square (I, II, III). Greg Wallace, over at What Attitude Problem?, posted this story yesterday about yet another successful attempt to strip naked the public square. Read the story and follow the links. This latest news story leads me back to a quote by…
Power Line has a commentary on an interview given by Washington Post Managing Editor Philip Bennett to the People’s Daily Online, a Communist China publication. The interview’s headline quote by Bennett is: I don’t think US should be the leader of the world. Bennett also offers up the following thought: Democracy means many things. How…
Every once in a while it is worth stopping and taking a look back. I recently reread some of President George W. Bush’s major speeches on the War on Terror, dating back to shortly after September 11, 2001. I thought it might be helpful to have many of them accessible in one posting: 1. September…
Figures I’d find out about this at the last minute and that it’s on a day when I’m busy and under the weather, but any of you who are healthy and free might be interested to know that Dinesh D’Souza will be speaking at Brown tonight at 8:00 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching…
My family had the privilege of visiting The Statute of Liberty in August 2004 on only the 23rd day after it had re-opened for the first time since September 11, 2001. It was there that we saw first-hand the poem penned by Emma Lazarus and etched on the pedestal of the statute, which includes these…