I see 12 more infidels were savagely murdered in the name of Allah today. Lest you think this was just senseless brutality, know that this is in direct response to some idiot burning a Koran. So, you know, there you go. Yesterday I read an interview with Bill Bennett and Seth Leibsohn, authors of the … Read more
There is strength in affiliation. I suspect there are enough reasonable exceptions to keep that from being axiomatic. But it’s probably true most of the time, else why would affiliations exist? Some affiliations are simple, and therefore largely uncontroversial. But affiliations concerned with complex constructs—like, oh, those of politics or religion—tend to be complex themselves. … Read more
Last week a longtime net acquaintance lamented on his Facebook page that 65% of the wealth in the United States was now controlled by 10% of its people. (I think that was it. It was a large percentage and a small percentage. You get the gist.) I’m immediately suspicious when I hear such a claim, … Read more