Archive for June, 2012
Lately, I’ve been reading a book called The Greatest Communicator: What Ronald Reagan Taught Me about Politics, Leadership, and Life, by Dick Wirthlin, Reagan’s chief strategist and pollster from 1968 to 1988 and unofficial member of his inner circle. Wirthlin gives some interesting insights into Reagan’s personality, beliefs, style, and skills. Of course, it is […]
“Ronald Reagan has blood on his hands. The man was in the White House as AIDS exploded, and he was happy to see plenty of gay men and queer people die. He was a murderous fool, and I have no problem saying so.” — Matthew Hart, national director of public engagement at Solutions for Progress […]
In his new book, Ameritopia, Mark Levin discusses what he has discovered in his thorough study of utopianism in the works of Plato, More, Hobbes, and Marx. From the jacket, “[Levin] explores the psychology, motivations, and history of the utopian movement, its architects, and its modern-day disciples — and how the individual and American society […]
I’ve been concerned about the potential for this kind of thing for years. (Not that I have evidence of my prescient genius in writing. You’ll just have to take my word for it.) Now we have a big news story about China-made parts in our high-tech, multi-million-dollar military aircraft and missile & antimissile systems being […]
Today’s post is centered on another excerpt from Robison & Richards’ Indivisible, in which they examine a fundamental difference in how the typical “progressive” views human nature and how America’s Founding Fathers saw human nature, as evidenced by the language used in our founding documents and in other writings. “The Founders saw human beings as […]