Liberalism
Rebecca Walker (h/t Freeman Hunt), daughter of feminist Alice Walker, has a sad tale to tell. I was raised to believe that women need men like a fish needs a bicycle. But I strongly feel children need two parents and the thought of raising Tenzin without my partner, Glen, 52, would be terrifying. As the…
I’d be interested to hearing a fuller explanation of exactly what it is that NEA Assistant Executive Director Pat Crowley likes about this video that he’s posted at RI Future under the heading of “Oh if only the world worked like this” He seems to be suggesting that he’d prefer a world with much less…
In Tuesday’s Projo, columnist Edward Achorn wrote…Though Rhode Islanders are independent-minded enough to vote for people from both parties for governor, the public-employee unions and welfare industry now control large voting blocks, and have the money and storm troopers to swing legislative elections fairly reliably to their hand-picked candidates.Robert Walsh, Executive Director of the National…
John Derbyshire’s “March Diary” has much with which Rhode Islanders might sympathize, and that makes one wonder whether forswearing the “island” in our name mightn’t be a step in the right direction. The following is from a reader’s letter: I see you’ve got the “New York Funk”. I was born and raised in NYC, and…
This article would have been noteworthy based simply on pure irony: The rush to grow biofuel crops — widely embraced as part of the solution to global warming — is actually increasing greenhouse gas emissions rather than reducing them, according to two studies published Thursday in the journal Science. One analysis found that clearing forests…
I gotta say, even I was surprised to learn that somehow RIPTA depended on Medicaid money to keep running. A federal clampdown on the state’s Medicaid program will cost as many as 18,000 needy Rhode Islanders their free bus passes and will force the state to make up for millions of dollars in lost transit…
Jonah Goldberg’s controversial new book, Liberal Fascism isn’t beyond-the-pale as his most strident critics would have you believe. First, as Goldberg has repeatedly pointed out, he is not the person who invented the term Liberal Fascism. That distinction belongs to the influential early 20th century public intellectual H.G. Wells. Beyond the provenance of the term,…
Froma Harrop makes an interesting observation: PAYING BLOGGERS is “not our financial model,” The Huffington Post’s co-founder, Ken Lerer, told USAToday. What a profitable business that must be. The Huffington Post is a popular liberal blog site named for Arianna Huffington, a pundit and power broker in the celebrity-industrial complex. Huffington is also very smart.…
With little doubt that the observation and conclusions will be misconstrued, I find myself comparing Kate Brewster’s Poverty Institute and Planned Parenthood. When people construct their lives such that they profit from — survive by — the evil outcomes of their faulty solutions, accuracy of analysis is apt to be subordinate to a priori prescriptions…
Even a week after I read the related piece, this biopsis (if I may coin a term for “biographic synopsis”) lingers on the mind: Guevara, a physician with no formal military training, was also something else, critics say: prolific executioner, dogmatic totalitarian and co-designer of the Cuban police state and indoctrination apparatus. The version in…
