Cole's Notes

2011-10-24T23:18:00.000-06:00

Updating - New Profile - from Google +

Liberal Guilt–the Quote of the Day

2011-10-18T09:54:00.001-06:00

Found this over at SDA.

The same liberals who believed that they could simultaneously go to the moon, fight the Cold War, fight a hot war in Vietnam and Texas-size the New Deal with the Great Society would come crashing down to earth, and become obsessed with a whole host of reasons why the nation — and the planet — were royally screwed. Environmentalism, zero population growth, a so-called energy crisis and a whole plethora of other doubts were the symptoms of a self-created mental depression that once manic liberals found themselves wallowing in during the entire 1970s.

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Quote of the Day

2011-10-04T12:04:00.001-06:00

Warmists Think We're Stupid

By Ross Kaminsky on 10.4.11 @ 6:09AM

Humans live in deserts and in the Arctic. We live in places like Denver and Chicago, each of which will see temperatures over more than a 100-degree (F) range in the course of a year -- and routinely a 30 or 40 degree range in a day (or 20 in an hour) in the mountains and deserts. ….. We invent air conditioning and efficient heating systems. We have nearly eliminated smallpox and polio, two of the greatest scourges of eras past. In other words, we adapt to our environment -- in those cases when we can't adapt our environment to us.
For that reason, it defies common sense to believe that man-made global warming, even if it were real, would have the devastating impact that its anti-capitalist, wealth-redistributionist proponents claim….
….it's also because the solutions proposed, i.e. to stop using energy, are based on an obvious, even if never-ever-ever-ever-stated by the left, premise that people who live on 21st century Earth are too stupid to adapt to a changing environment -- even though we have as a species, even without the benefit of modern technology, done just that for millennia.

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Really in need of a good snicker, hot and hollar

2011-10-02T01:30:00.001-06:00

Watching the election returns for the PC party tonight – I was reminded of a quote from a favourite book of mine “Skinny Legs and All”

"The monkey wrench in the progressive machinery of primate evolution was the propensity of the primate band to take its political leaders - its dominant males - too seriously. Of benefit to the band only when it was actively threatened by predators, the dominant male (or political boss) was almost wholly self-serving and was naturally dedicated not to liberation but to control. Behind his chest-banging and fang display, he was largely a joke and could be kept in his place (his place being that of a necessary evil) by disrespect and laughter. If, for example, when Hitler stood up to rant in the beer halls of Munich, the good drinkers had taken him more lightly, had they, instead of buying his act, snickered and hooted and pelted him with sausage skins, the Holocaust might have been avoided. Of course, as long as there were willing followers, there would be exploitative leaders. And there would be willing followers until humanity reached that philosophical plateau where it recognized that its great mission in life had nothing to do with any struggle between classes, races, nations, or ideologies, but was, rather, a personal quest to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. On that quest, politics was simply a roadblock of stentorian baboons."
“We approach the Divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains. To expedite those two things may be the mission of our existence….. But such activity runs counter to the aspirations of commerce and politics. Politics is the science of domination, and persons in the process of enlargement and illumination are notoriously difficult to control. Therefore, to protect its vested interests, politics usurped religion a very long time ago.”

Most of the Stentorian Baboons where holding mikes in the faces of other Baboons. FAH – I’m going to bed – find out in the morning who “Won”.

Blog Notes–updating and working

2011-09-27T23:56:00.001-06:00

I will be experimenting with the layout and content of both Blogs in the next little while. Trying to make something that looks good and handles the longer writings I am planning for some content. I’m trying to get this working across all of the social sites I use, the idea being write once – post many places. That and solve the multiple posting problem on Facebook.

Churchill and Islam

2011-09-27T23:04:00.001-06:00

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its
votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in
a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic
apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident
habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of
commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the
followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and
refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that
in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine,
must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of
Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the
influence of the religion paralyses the social development of
those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from
being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing
faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa,
raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that
Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the
science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization
of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient
Rome."

Sir Winston Churchill; (Source: The River War, first edition,
Vol. II, pages 248-50 London)

Another quote from an earlier time -

This time from Napoleon Bonaparte, speaking about his conquests in Egypt.

Le musulman est soit à vos pieds, ou à la gorge"

“The Muslim is either at your feet, or at your throat”

QoTD - Joseph Ashby

2011-09-27T09:11:00.001-06:00

September 27, 2011
Obama Leads the Liberalism Parade
By Joseph Ashby
Beyond the realm of material things, liberalism is an ideology of conceit. The liberal believes that if he doesn't run the universe, everything will fall to pieces….

The reality is that long before liberals came to power, recessions ended, medicine advanced, and Americans were educated. Furthermore, we would continue to progress (and at a faster rate) without a Vishnuian political class which believes it must control the world.

Read it all here

Okay–there were two seats left at the movie

2011-09-25T18:16:00.001-06:00

And we really wanted to see it – but there were these bikers……..

Beer

Winston Churchill on Education

2011-09-17T10:40:00.001-06:00

Macaulay, Gibbon, Plato etc. must train the muscles to wield that sword to the greatest effect. This is indeed a nice subdivision of the term "education". The result of one kind of learning is valued by what you know. Of the other by what you are.

The latter is far more important - but it is useless in the total absence of the former. A judicious proportion should be observed. How many people forgot this!

The education of the school-boy - and of nearly all undergraduates aims only at stocking the mind with facts. I have no ambition to "stifle my spark of intelligence under the weight of literary fuel" but I appreciate the power of facts. Hence my toil.

From New-Wave Conservatives and the Lesson of Churchill courtesy of American Thinker

Hello World

2011-09-12T09:24:00.001-06:00

Test from the iPad using new blogger software.

Blogging from the iPhone

2011-09-08T12:39:00.001-06:00

First try from my iPhone. Usually I write from the PCs, but this new iOs app is an interesting start. So I'll post a man's fairy tale and see how it goes.

Getting along without a degree

2011-09-04T16:53:00.001-06:00

Is School Really That Important?

Going Google+

2011-08-24T16:59:00.001-06:00

I have been updating some materials and moving things over to Google +, after I got a invite. I really like the new system and will be heading over there.

If you would like an invite – The QR code on is on page – just scan with your QR code and Bob’s your uncle. Or of course, just click on this link: https://plus.google.com/_/notifications/ngemlink?path=%2F%3Fgpinv%3DgvFnBD5h9gc%3ATX1FdPOgYhY - which is really silly.

However, one of the new services is goog.il URL Shortener – which will make it: goo.gl/CEY1u, so if you don’t like the long one – click there.

Or even e-mail me through the site and if I have any invites left – I’ll forward them on. If you want to add me to your circles – just use cole.cooper@gmail.com.

Postscript of the Day–Thank you Ben Stein

2011-08-10T14:55:00.001-06:00

I often read Ben Stein’s Diary on the American Spectator – and they are great little pieces of nostalgia and celebration of the small things in life that should be enjoyed. Ben is at that time of life were he has the ability to sit back and “smell the roses” as he gives thanks for each day. A great way to live. What I enjoyed about a recent column wasn’t the column itself, but rather the postscript.

From Far Away From the Panic.

A LITTLE POSTSCRIPT. I notice that the papers and the Internet talk about the big losses on the stock markets yesterday as being based on "...waves of investor panic..." Nonsense. The selling is done by billionaire traders and immense hedge funds and high frequency traders who seek to make money by selling, then tricking others into selling even more, then covering their shorts at lower prices. This is not Ma and Pa Kettle calling their broker and selling their 1000 shares of AT&T. It is cynical, calculated manoeuvring by cold, clever people. It isn't illegal, but you buy into it at your peril. These people are not the ordinary investors' friend. They will use any and every excuse and rationale to "explain" their behaviour, but it's all about trying to outwit the next guy.

To quote Patton in the movie Patton, it's "… not about dying for your country. It is about making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." That's the attitude of the traders. They're not bad people. They're just trying to get rich quick, but that's not illegal.. But don't believe this nonsense about Wall Streeters' "panic." They're the bosses and they're not panicked at all. They're making money while YOU are panicked.

Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes "Ben Stein's Diary" for every issue of The American Spectator.

Hanging out on the window

2011-08-09T09:43:00.001-06:00

Test post

2011-08-09T00:15:00.001-06:00

Aristophanes once wrote, roughly translated; "Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but STUPID lasts forever."

Thought for the day

2011-08-09T00:12:00.001-06:00

Aristophanes once wrote, roughly translated; "Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but STUPID lasts forever."

Quote of the Day

2011-08-08T23:59:00.001-06:00

Rush Limbaugh On the S&P downgrade

World War II, we had a AAA credit rating, and we lose it now, and for what? For what great purpose did we lose it? Except an ideological hatred of American capitalism and a love of class warfare, what did we lose our AAA rating for? A naked effort to get still more and more money to buy votes. A never-ending quest for power, that's why we lost our AAA credit rating.

Get it all Here

Quote of the Day

2011-08-01T10:43:00.001-06:00

American Thinker - Obama's Failed Presidency

“The Obama Presidency is over. He has abdicated all responsibility to the Congress, in particular the House of Representatives, which has little choice but to assume a role they are not structured to do: lead the country as best they can until November 2012. The American people, suffering under the burden of high joblessness, eroding housing values, inflation and dramatically declining economic growth with no prospect of any immediate relief, are increasingly resigned to the fact that they must focus on surviving as best they can until the election.”

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19th Century Streetcars or 21st Century Cars?

2011-06-02T12:15:00.001-06:00

I was reading this Salon’s Article about how the energy industry is changing. I found this quote to be very apt…

Another casualty of energy abundance is the new urbanism. Because cars and trucks and buses can run on natural gas as well as gasoline and diesel fuel, the proposition that peak oil will soon force people around the world to abandon automobile-centered suburbs and office parks for dense downtowns connected by light rail and inter-city trains can no longer be taken seriously. Deprived of the arguments from depletion, national security and global warming, the campaign to increase urban density and mass transit rests on nothing but a personal taste for expensive downtown living, a taste which the suburban working-class majorities in most developed nations manifestly do not share…read it all

What brought this to mind is the recent local town meetings about the North LRT line. I’ve been wondering why the city transportation department and the thought of why we are spending money on a 19th century technology (streetcars) in the 21st Century.

At it’s core – that’s what LRT cars are – a slightly modernised streetcar, not all that different from the one running at Heritage Park.

Quotes of the Day–two for one

2011-05-08T15:08:00.001-06:00

"Liberalism is at its core an elitist philosophy that castigates the "common" man for silly emotions like patriotism and love of God and country. Liberals believe that they are better because they have a more intelligent and "nuanced" view of the world."

The great French economist Frederik Bastiat put it best with regard to "the socialists";

"These dreamers spin, all out of their own imaginations, men as well as things. They invent a social order without regard to the human heart and they invent a human heart to suit their social order". - Social Motive Force - 1850

QoTD - Lorne Gunter: Quebec’s declining influence is good for Canada

2011-05-05T16:01:00.001-06:00

Stephen Harper, then, is something most Canadians have never seen: a prime minister born and raised in English Canada who does not hold power at the pleasure of the smug, self-centered, expensive demands of Quebec.

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Quote of the day

2011-03-26T11:40:00.001-06:00

Stephen Harper on the upcoming election.

"Canadians need to understand clearly, without any ambiguity: Unless Canadians elect a stable, national majority, Mr. Ignatieff will form a coalition with the NDP and Bloc Quebecois. They tried it before. It is clear they will try it again. And, next time, if given the chance, they will do it in a way that no one will be able to stop.

Just adjusting things

2011-03-25T12:08:00.001-06:00

Checking the RSS feeds and Twitter and Facebook Notify

Changes

2011-03-25T12:00:00.001-06:00

The Blog has been looking a little junky lately – so I’m moving to a new less cluttered design. So if you’ve been wondering why the pages are changing around – that’s the reason..

Conservatives often wonder what happens when we try to talk to liberals. Now we know. There's no there there

2011-03-21T01:19:00.001-06:00

Paul Krugman and The Know-Nothings

By James Lewis

Paul Krugman recently was quoted as telling the world he doesn't follow contemporary conservative news commentary. Krugman's open contempt for the dominant political philosophy of the Western Enlightenment, including most of American history, is incredibly revealing. It's not just one New York Times guru of Political Correctness. No, I've run into Krugman's mental lockbox among "educated" people all my life, people with advanced degrees who just mouth the platitudes of the left. In all their education they never learned to open their minds.

It is pathetic. Intellectually, Paul Krugman has just run up the white flag. That's how we have to see the self-censorship of the left. In a free marketplace of ideas they can't survive. It's our job to restore the free media and give Americans a choice again.

Liberal bunker mentality is constantly promoted by the media. It's the key to their stranglehold over our national discourse. The New York Times never has to think a new thought, because it never feels the need to enter a genuine dialogue with other Americans.

Think about that. The American founders were what we now call "conservatives." So was Abraham Lincoln and all US presidents until Wilson and FDR. Most of Western thought for the last 26 centuries is dominated by what are now called "conservatives."

Just twenty years ago, the more conservative, free market nations, led by Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and John Paul II, brought down the Soviet Union and all those shoddy Marxist tyrannies without firing a shot. The Soviet Union crumbled because its own people lost faith in Marxist delusions that impoverished them in so many ways. In the West it took leaders who were willing to express strong faith in our own political traditions. All three were targeted by leftist assassination attempts, and Reagan and Paul II were severely wounded. The Soviet KGB was complicit in the attempted assassination of John Paul II, a little fact the media seem to forget.

A generation before that, the same more conservative nations, led by Winston Churchill, FDR (in spite of the New Deal), and Harry S Truman, in a Devil's Bargain with Jozef Stalin, defeated Hitler and Tojo. And a generation before World War II the same political tradition beat the Kaiser and his Prussians.

Ever wonder why the left doesn't teach history? It's one disaster after another for them.

Until the organized left decided to purge our schools and universities of our own Western traditions, "conservatism" was called "liberalism," because it celebrated liberty of thought, liberty of speech and religion, freedom of association, and free ownership of productive assets, including the fruits of one's own labours. Today China, India and Russia have thrown off their Marxist shackles and their economies are suddenly thriving, and we can still see the wonders of South Korea right next to the Stalinist nightmare of the North.

But Paul Krugman, economist extraordinaire, just doesn't get it. What is it you don't get, Professor Krugman?

Funny thing, the Europeans are finally getting it and saying so. Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron have all called for a halt to the suicidal ideology of anti-Western "multi-culturalism," which claims there is no difference between civilization and barbarism. Then you see real barbarians at their bloody work, and you think ... Gee! I guess all that old stuff was true after all!

If you're not Paul Krugman, that is. Mr. Krugman just censors his own mind. Millions of liberals breathlessly await his new columns to keep their own denial systems intact: It's all the news they're allowed to think. What Krugman says today, his op-ed readers believe tomorrow, just like the old Catholic Church, or Stalin's Politburo.

Conservatism is thriving in the free media -- what you are reading right now. The left only controls Pravda and Izvestiya, the New York Times and the Washington Post, and they are losing market share. No one with a shred of scepticism believes the media today. Conservative thought flowers wherever people are free to express their feelings and thoughts. In China the Party has to persecute peaceful Falun Gong meditators for doing Tai-Chi exercises in public. Think about that. As for Vladimir Putin, he now calls himself a Russian Orthodox believer, and is photographed kneeling with the Patriarch of Moscow.

The radical left has had to jump into bed with reactionary oil sheikhs whose fanaticism hails from the Arabian desert twelve centuries ago, to buy and bully their way to control the Democrats and the creaky Old Media.

In Krugman's specialty of economics, he must be shutting out working economists in the free market tradition, a consistent build-up of evidence and theory stretching from Adam Smith to Milton Friedman. In international affairs Krugman is at least half-blind; and given the consistent record of dangerous failures by left-liberals in US foreign and defense policy over the last century, his ignorance is endangering our national security. If we believe Krugman, he also avoids reading Supreme Court opinions by Clarence Thomas and Chief Justice Roberts.

There's no serious field of scholarship where that kind of ignorance would be tolerated for a second. I don't know any mathematicians who boast about their ignorance of modern algebra. Their students would laugh them out of the room. Everybody has limits, but no sane person boasts about his ignorance.

A century ago the word "Bowdlerize" meant to literally delete any sexual references in Shakespeare and the great Victorian novelists. We don't Bowdlerize books any more. Our media just Krugmanize everything in sight.

Krugmanism means cutting off half your intellect and all your knowledge of history. Conservatives make up a larger fraction of the voting population than liberals, but like some spoiled toddler, the left pretends it's the only kid in the sandbox. Intellectually it's pathetic.

And yet, on the New York Times Op-Ed Page, the Valhalla of liberal politics, where dead Marxists go to drink dark ale and waltz around with busty Valkyries looking exactly like Helen Thomas, Krugman's self-inflicted brain surgery is applauded. Way to go, Paul! Keep cutting your brains away! I still see some smidgen of free market economics on your purified intellect. Have you been reading Robert Samuels again, Paul? Wipe that off, Paul. Stay pure.

Conservatives often wonder what happens when we try to talk to liberals. Now we know. There's no there there.

Facts and reasoning mean nothing, not when it comes to the blasted heath of their ideological pieties. The reason they can't answer questions is that they've made themselves mentally helpless. I've had an adult family member rush out of the room for fear I might gently mention a Politically Incorrect idea. (True!)

Imagine what Paul Krugman had to do to his own mind, to drown out the memory of those 100 million innocent victims of Marxism in the 20th century. Or the whole history of the USSR. Pol Pot, anybody? How do you explain three million dead Cambodians in a dozen years of Marxist rule? All they can do is shut out facts.

In a perverse way the left has performed a kind of miracle. How does Krugman get to the Times building in Manhattan every morning? Does he have a seeing-eye dog? If you see Paul bumping into brick walls on his way to work, be nice and walk him to the door. Help the handicapped.

It's the Progressive thing to do, I guess. Progressives are admired, not for their knowledge, competence or wisdom, but for how much reality they can shut out without actually bumping into glass doors or slipping on old banana skins.

Our president proves it almost every day. The smartest man in America just sent Hillary up the wall again with his bumbling over Mubarak and Libya. He's wildly ignorant on solar energy and global warming. He even explains in his two (!) autobiographies how he ended up with lifelong mind-lock: in college Obama restricted his friends and teachers to Marxists and Third World radicals, whose ignorance equaled or exceeded his own. It's a sort of self-made cult, a formula for a bunkered mind. That's how you get Obama walking into Larry Tribe's office at Harvard Law, and persuading him that Einstein's Relativity Theory is a big help for interpreting the US Constitution. In a closed mental cult, anything goes.

The left doesn't need official censors because they carry their own censors in their heads. But just to make sure, they also work to block the free flow of information to everybody else. That must be why the media have to witch hunt Sarah Palin and Clarence Thomas on a regular basis, a smart conservative woman and a smart conservative black man. It's why they have to keep smearing good and decent people. If their own followers ever figured out the scam the media couldn't compete.

Liberals are constantly telling their obedient flocks what not to listen to, like Fox News. I've never heard a conservative radio host tell the audience not to read the New York Times. Who would listen to that? We stay astonished by the Mind-locked Media, to see what kind of disinformation they pump out every day. The liberal media provide daily mind-food for conservatives, just like the old Kremlinologists who would look at air-brushed photos of Soviet apparatchiks standing on top of Lenin's tomb, to see who was in power and who got purged.

We criticize their ideas, while they go on poisoning the wellsprings. That's why they fell for global warming fraud and for con artists like Bernie Madoff. If you have no conscience and want to make a million bucks, try selling GM Volts to liberals. But sell them an expensive accident policy at the same time, for the inevitable moment when their motor buggy gets crushed on the freeway. You can get them coming and going, if you have no conscience. If you do have a conscience you can only tell the truth and hope.

Leftist censorship often seems like a source of power for the left, but it's also a great weakness, because reality keeps finding them out. Ever since he took office Obama has looked stunned that nothing works the way he expects. Maybe that's why he's playing so much golf, to get away from all the bad news. Baffled. Why don't the Muslims and Israelis do what I tell them? Why doesn't the economy rebound from my "stimulus"? He doesn't get it. The more things get out of control, the more confused he feels. It wasn't supposed to be this way.

Obama is a victim of the propaganda monopoly of the left. Harvard's ingrown political culture never prepared him for this. That's why the left had to completely revamp Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, still an amazing guide to conservative (i.e., Western) political thought. It's free on the web, and good ideas have not changed, in spite of Krugmaniacal self-censorship. Human nature is what it is. Conservatives don't have to write any new history books. All we have to do is insist on the truth.

Political philosophers have long argued about popular democracy, because they could see in their own lives how often people get suckered by demagogues. (Including themselves.) The American founders argued about it for years, and ended up with a Constitution with layers of democracy and semi-aristocracy, like the Senate and Judiciary, and the towns and states against the feds. It's not a bad answer -- but the best government starts to rot if citizens don't stay on their case. With the advent of mass electronic media several decades ago, with television and radio, the liberals seized centralized control of our culture. When all the news came from New York City and Washington, our open political culture crashed.

In the age of free media on the web, if conservatives lose the battle of ideas it will be our own fault. You now have a printing press at your finger tips and it's up to you.

Remember the story of Ben Franklin, walking out of Convention Hall in Philadelphia and being asked a question by the curious crowd in 1789 ?

Q. "What did you decide on, a monarchy or a republic?"

A. "A republic. ... if you can keep it."

I'll bet that Franklin looked pretty sceptical when he said it, and I don't think we know answer yet.

It's still up for grabs.

Stella–I’m on to you.

2011-02-24T18:40:00.001-07:00

So today I’m a little late getting in to feed Stella the Cat. The cat food tin is on the floor – with the lid ripped off, empty. Somehow – cleaned out.

And of course, she wants me to open ANOTHER can for her dinner. Sorry babe, one can a day – that’s it.

Blog Notes

2011-02-03T11:05:00.001-07:00

You may see some strange postings and changes to the design of the Blog today. I’m busily updating and cleaning up the various webs and social media things I work on and post too – and the templates are being updated to the new design.

"A bit is a bit is a bit"–Right? Unless you try to buy it in Canada.

2011-02-03T00:28:00.001-07:00

There has been a lot of hot air coming from the old media about how the issue of UBB is end users wanting to get something for nothing by opposing the big ISP providers rate grabs.

Over at the Legion of Decency – Jim Henshaw puts the case succinctly.

One of our largest ISP's -- Shaw -- charges $47/month for a package that will deliver 100 Gb to your computer before additional charges are applied for downloading additional bits. That would make the Shaw price $0.47 per Gigabyte.
If a Shaw subscriber happens to go over that limit, they're charged $2.00 per additional Gb. The same as Bell but less than one half what Rogers has listed on its rate sheet.
But if "A bit is a bit is a bit" then this seems somewhat out of line.
Just how out of line becomes clear when you learn that it actually costs a Canadian ISP about $0.03 to deliver a Gigabyte to begin with.
Which means -- why is a Shaw subscriber already paying more than a 1000% mark-up on those first 100 Gb? And maybe more importantly, how have they managed to get away with charging for the billions of bits Canadians have been purchasing in advance for years -- but have never used?

2011-01-13T13:11:00.001-07:00

Our Post-Modern Left http://ping.fm/AyyLO

2011-01-12T13:27:00.001-07:00

I Can Hear The Civility From My House http://ping.fm/P4his

Quote of the day

2011-01-12T13:22:00.001-07:00

President Reagan said, “We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio, not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle, not with law-abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their First Amendment rights at campaign rallies, not with those who proudly voted in the last election.

2011-01-12T00:45:00.001-07:00

Reporter Jeanette Stewart has created an ethical scandal for her newspapers http://ping.fm/r3LzG

2011-01-12T00:40:00.001-07:00

The Media Has Declared... WAR! http://ping.fm/l3boB

2011-01-11T10:30:00.001-07:00

What Publishers & Authors Need to Know About Quora http://ping.fm/58737

Photo of the Day

2011-01-10T23:16:00.000-07:00

2011-01-10T09:08:00.001-07:00

Murders, Lies, and Liberal Fantasies of Conservatives http://ping.fm/wc4en

2011-01-09T15:19:00.001-07:00

Arizona Shootings: 'It Was a Colossal Failure of Journalism' http://ping.fm/r3ZEn

2011-01-07T15:07:00.001-07:00

CREDENTIALED DELUSIONS http://ping.fm/v4VCF

2011-01-07T12:13:00.001-07:00

Why Wasn’t I Consulted? http://ping.fm/3Rzo3

2011-01-07T11:41:00.001-07:00

"Ethical Oil" framework adopted by new Environment Minister http://ping.fm/gy8gL

2011-01-07T11:31:00.001-07:00

Stephen Harper criticizes police for apologizing for Ramadan arrests http://ping.fm/202o9

2011-01-07T11:09:00.001-07:00

Why the Constitution is Better Than Marx http://ping.fm/YIHr9

2011-01-07T10:29:00.001-07:00

Thank God These People Are on the Other Side of the World http://ping.fm/hmYaM

2011-01-07T10:12:00.001-07:00

Sex and War; Political Correctness and Perversion http://ping.fm/x5ejB

2011-01-06T12:27:00.001-07:00

Happy Whiny People http://ping.fm/pFrfR

2011-01-05T01:07:00.001-07:00

Psychology and the Shrinking of America http://ping.fm/LyKNu

2011-01-03T12:48:00.001-07:00

The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled http://ping.fm/jeuSd

2011-01-02T11:46:00.001-07:00

Nuclear Proliferation and Democracy http://ping.fm/lgbVa

2011-01-02T11:34:00.001-07:00

Tend My Flock http://ping.fm/iwAq1

2011-01-02T11:21:00.001-07:00

Obama's Bucket and Other Social Science Insights into His Presidency http://ping.fm/CIIyF

2011-01-01T11:24:00.001-07:00

Don’t Hide in the Dark http://ping.fm/HswGP

2011-01-01T11:15:00.001-07:00

INTERNAL RECTIFICATION http://ping.fm/Vll2W

2011-01-01T10:54:00.001-07:00

2011 Prediction: Media Hits New "Warming" Low http://ping.fm/DC7xH

2010-12-31T09:47:00.001-07:00

"What the Constitution Means to Me." http://ping.fm/aAjMb

2010-12-30T18:24:00.001-07:00

Some Predictions for 2011 http://ping.fm/SzRXu

2010-12-30T16:07:00.001-07:00

City.vi http://ping.fm/BbjDF

2010-12-28T19:04:00.001-07:00

The Missing Link in the Evolution of Barack Obama http://ping.fm/N5xtR

2010-12-27T15:59:00.001-07:00

Obama Destined to Be a Footnote in Presidential History http://ping.fm/GwHIK

2010-12-27T10:50:00.001-07:00

They Miss W. http://ping.fm/mJQv8

2010-12-27T10:48:00.001-07:00

The World Pivots http://ping.fm/2sA6f

2010-12-25T11:49:00.001-07:00

Merry Christmas, Richard Dawkins http://ping.fm/lYhRy

2010-12-23T23:47:00.001-07:00

Saved by Christmas http://ping.fm/wBrO3

2010-12-21T09:28:00.001-07:00

For Those Who Believed Arts Money Was Awarded Fairly http://ping.fm/EjtkN

2010-12-20T12:23:00.001-07:00

Swedes just wanna have fun http://ping.fm/4XLBo

2010-12-19T14:55:00.003-07:00

A Christmas appreciation http://ping.fm/quD3w

2010-12-19T14:55:00.001-07:00

“It’s all about profits!” http://ping.fm/rVstU

2010-12-19T09:48:00.001-07:00

What would an Ignatiff government look like? http://ping.fm/EffhV

2010-12-18T11:10:00.001-07:00

Google eBooks: Is That All There Is? http://ping.fm/j7h3Q

2010-12-17T11:17:00.001-07:00

The Adolescent Left http://ping.fm/ZcwUe

2010-12-17T11:01:00.001-07:00

The West ascendant: Canada's new political power http://ping.fm/ZjE1q

2010-12-17T10:35:00.001-07:00

A Lawyer's Perspective on Publishing, and on Fair Use http://ping.fm/EcSUm

2010-12-16T12:20:00.001-07:00

Why We Should Get Ready for a Plunge in Print-Book Sales http://ping.fm/WdNOY

2010-12-16T10:54:00.001-07:00

When The Communists Show Up To Protest The Nazis http://ping.fm/dFVu7

2010-12-16T10:47:00.003-07:00

The First American Prime Minister http://ping.fm/e0WIt

2010-12-16T10:47:00.001-07:00

MSM is not connecting the dots (are we surprised?) http://ping.fm/p6teP

2010-12-14T14:26:00.001-07:00

Pity the Poor Terrorist http://ping.fm/jsxa0

QOTD - Obama: Pawn or Mastermind?

2010-12-14T00:55:00.001-07:00

At the end of the day, President Obama is a politician ill-prepared for the office he holds and desperately seeking help from whoever he feels has an answer to his political problems. He is in a bed of his own making, able to reach out to only like-minded progressives just as clueless on matters of economics and who really believe that a massive dose of their agenda will succeed where it has never succeeded before. Obama was shrewd enough to capitalize on a confluence of events to get elected president, but he is unable to admit that he doesn't know what to do now that he has the job.

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2010-12-13T13:31:00.003-07:00

God and Man at Columbia http://ping.fm/Vhw4n

2010-12-13T13:31:00.001-07:00

Teen Tyrants http://ping.fm/oSnE2

2010-12-13T13:13:00.001-07:00

David Suzuki's brave old world http://ping.fm/ZTYzs

2010-12-13T10:09:00.001-07:00

A Desperate Call From Gibby http://ping.fm/rU2Ln

2010-12-12T22:28:00.003-07:00

Liberals, NDP, Bloc gang up on Alberta http://ping.fm/TowBh

2010-12-12T22:28:00.001-07:00

The Ramsayization of Society http://ping.fm/RC3l2

2010-12-11T15:36:00.001-07:00

The Saturday Interview: Victor Davis Hanson ‘therapeutic’ culture heart of U.S. problem http://ping.fm/AvRue

2010-12-11T01:19:00.001-07:00

Death of the Global Warming Myth http://ping.fm/gxWSN

2010-12-10T19:34:00.001-07:00

Kim and the Khyber http://ping.fm/cI01h

2010-12-10T09:48:00.001-07:00

The Enablers: The Men of Words http://ping.fm/F9Nc4

Personally, I blame the X-Files or maybe Star Trek

2010-12-09T10:03:00.001-07:00

Over at American Thinker – J.R. Dunn weighs in on The Wikileaks and the so called cyber war against the West, and takes a good shot at the millennial nerds living in their Mum’s basement – or in campuses all over the world.

It has been an axiom of the left since the days of the New Masses and the Daily Worker that if "the people" knew what was "really going on," what decisions were being made and crimes committed "in their name," they'd simply rise up in their wrath to smash the pillars of the temple and smite the evildoers….

…….Assange's followers are flakes. These are not Red Guards or Khmer Rouge; these are the potential victims of Red Guards and Khmer Rouge -- foolish, childish, spoiled, miseducated (and possibly uneducable), the dregs of millennial society. They exist in a dream reality, feeding on myths that any normal individual would reject half-heard: that the world is run by means of conspiracy. [emphasis mine] That capitalism is evil. That Marxism is about sharing. That 9/11 was an inside job. That Michael Moore and Joseph C. Wilson IV are heroic figures. And most of all, that a brave new world lies just around the corner if we only do the right thing…..

….After two centuries, the compulsive rebel -- descended from the club-footed Byron and the frail Shelley -- has about run his string. It is a long way down from the maimed grandeur of a Byron to the whining, petulant Assange. Whatever benefit such types may have provided is a matter of dead history. They have shed their attractiveness and outworn their welcome. They are a nuisance at best and a danger at worst.

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J.R. Dunn is consulting editor of American Thinker and will edit the forthcoming Military Thinker. His upcoming book Death by Liberalism can be found at Amazon.com.

2010-12-09T00:34:00.001-07:00

WikiLeaks, Stuxnet, Cyberwar, and Obama http://ping.fm/vNlXa

2010-12-07T11:14:00.001-07:00

CableGate's Grand Illusion http://ping.fm/kRoZk

2010-12-07T10:59:00.001-07:00

Multiculturalism, R.I.P. http://ping.fm/edsj5

2010-12-07T10:32:00.001-07:00

It’s a Norman Rockwell world out there, even for the haters http://ping.fm/WZPrw

2010-12-06T13:24:00.001-07:00

What's an Italian supercar doing in a federal government surplus sale? http://ping.fm/ihsBd

2010-12-06T12:45:00.001-07:00

Google eBookstore Cheered by Indie Booksellers http://ping.fm/RY0KV

2010-12-06T12:42:00.001-07:00

Privation for Thee. Not for Me http://ping.fm/reZn5

2010-12-06T11:58:00.001-07:00

Can Google Save Indie Bookstores? http://ping.fm/hDbko

2010-12-06T11:45:00.001-07:00

Dear atheists: Most don’t care what you think http://ping.fm/29KFJ

2010-12-06T11:27:00.001-07:00

Politically Incorrect Powerful Women http://ping.fm/UXnZn

2010-12-04T16:25:00.007-07:00

Alternative Energy and the Academy at Lagado http://ping.fm/Jlmbh