Category Archives: Civilization

Old World Order

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Gaius

Victor Davis Hanson: A therapeutic college curricula and hyphenated “studies” courses have not made graduates better-read or more skilled in math and science. For many employers, the rigor of the new BA is scarcely equivalent to that of the old … Continue reading →

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Deficit Gone Wild

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Gaius

$1.5 trillion: It seems clearer and clearer that short of a near-death experience, no one is going to do anything about this problem. Our president spent over 5,000 words last night kind of noting, offhand, that we might have a … Continue reading →

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The Clowns Make The Circus

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Gaius

Mark Steyn on the Clown Princes of Copenhagen: The best summation of the UN climate circus in Denmark comes from Andrew Bolt of Australia’s Herald Sun: “Nothing is real in Copenhagen – not the temperature record, not the predictions, not … Continue reading →

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What A Post-Racial America Looks Like

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Gaius

Go see. It will amaze you – and, I hope, give you real hope. Tweet

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Where We Are Heading

Posted on May 12, 2009 by Gaius

I listen to NPR on my long drive to and from work each day. I have heard Peter Orszag, Barack Obama’s budget director, repeatedly mention the Obama strategy for eliminating health care choices that “Don’t work”. As in treatments that … Continue reading →

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The Crazy Years

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Gaius

Robert Heinlein was a bit off. The 1960s did indeed see some “Crazy Years” but the real craziness has not hit until now. Victor Davis Hanson explains: Washington is more confusing. Bill Clinton balanced his last budgets but raised taxes. … Continue reading →

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The Western Assault On Free Speech

Posted on April 12, 2009 by Gaius

Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, writes in today’s Washington Post about the all-out assault on free speech in the western world. This is not pretty, folks. But now an equally troubling trend is developing in the … Continue reading →

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Depression

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Gaius

No, not an economic one. Not yet, at any rate. Although that is appearing more likely with each day that passes with inaction from Obama and the daily antics of the Democrats running wild with America’s money. No, this is … Continue reading →

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Let’s Not Go There

Posted on February 14, 2009 by Gaius

A chilling column today from Mark Steyn. He recaps the “progress” of the Obamateur administration to date – and isn’t impressed: It requires a perverse kind of genius for the 44th president not to have waited for a single “event” … Continue reading →

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The Dimwitting Of America

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Rich Horton

The real trouble with excluding conservative voices from college campuses is that it helps turn liberals into blithering idiots. Take the case of Phil Busse, the moron college prof. who spent his free time destroying McCain/Palin yard signs, wrote an … Continue reading →

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I Cannot Believe This Is The Country Of John Locke

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Rich Horton

News from a weird but not-so-wonderful England: Gardener ordered to take down barbed wire fence ‘in case thieves hurt themselves on it’ A gardener has been ordered by council chiefs to remove three foot high barbed wire ringing his allotment … Continue reading →

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Hate

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Rich Horton

Here is Obama supporter Cintra Wilson writing about Sarah Palin on Salon: Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She’s such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it’s easy to write her off … Continue reading →

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Distracted From Distraction By Distraction

Posted on July 19, 2008 by Gaius

Here is a place of disaffection Time before and time after In a dim light: neither daylight Investing form with lucid stillness Turning shadow into transient beauty With slow rotation suggesting permanence Nor darkness to purify the soul Emptying the … Continue reading →

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Wonder Why Food Prices Are Skyrocketing?

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Gaius

I have pointed out for some time now that so-called biofuels are an environmental and economic disaster. Now The Guardian, of all places, reports on a leaked report they have obtained. The report, from the World Bank, says that the biofuels … Continue reading →

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Three Great American Ideas

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Gaius

Go read what Maggie Gallagher wrote. Rights do not come from the government. The government only exists because we allow it to. Those are the ideas – the ideals – that define America. When in the Course of human events … Continue reading →

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