Justin Katz
Paul at Powerline suggests some actions that rightward Americans can take in order to rebound from the election. This one is particularly significant here in Rhode Island: Support fledgling conservative institutions. The left has “marched through our institutions” – including the MSM, Hollywood, the public schools, academia, and even large swaths of corporate America. Conservatives…
So Julia Steiny gave me a change for which to hope in an Obama presidency: Last summer, presidential candidate Barack Obama addressed the National Education Association’s annual convention, by way of video stream projected onto a big screen. … But then, without changing his tone of voice, he enthusiastically endorsed charter schools. The crowd was…
One can say with some certainty that there will always be something new to discover in reality: On the outskirts of creation, unknown, unseen “structures” are tugging on our universe like cosmic magnets, a controversial new study says. Everything in the known universe is said to be racing toward the massive clumps of matter at…
Up there in far off Boston, Jeff Jacoby opines that the president elect hasn’t thus far exhibited an accurate understanding of the world’s opinion of the United States: Sure enough, much of the international reaction to Obama’s election has been ecstatic. “Legions of jubilant supporters set off firecrackers in El Salvador, danced in Liberia, and…
East Providence School Committee member Anthony Carcieri makes an interesting observation to the Providence Journal: Along with the skirmishes over ground rules, the negotiators also have disclosed their ultimate goal. The committee wants $3 million in annual concessions from the teachers, Carcieri says, adding that they aren’t bluffing or backing down. “The NEA has experienced…
George Will, in a post-election review, makes a corrective worth considering: Some conservatives who are gluttons for punishment are getting a head start on ensuring a 2012 drubbing by prescribing peculiar medication for a misdiagnosed illness. They are monomaniacal about media bias, which is real but rarely decisive, and unhinged by their anger about the…
A clever cartoon on socialism from Day by Day, today.
I suppose a lot of people were predisposed to this sort of credulity, but this should have been the first guess all around: He says there’s no way she didn’t know Africa was a continent, and whoever is saying she didn’t must be distorting “a fumble of words.” He talked to her about all manner…
One consideration that brings some of the darker visions for an Obama presidency a few steps closer to the light of plausibility is the astonishing complicity of the media. Victor Davis Hanson states it well: In the 3rd book of his history, Thucydides has some insightful thoughts about destroying institutions in times of zealotry—and then…
MRH offers a short-answer essay, in the comments, on “otherness” and the reasoning behind political correctness: Rightly or wrongly (I think increasingly wrongly) the default category in American society is white, Christian, and male. Anyone who isn’t white, Christian, or male is to some degree the “other.” It’s easy, but a little dicey, for someone…
