September 16, 2010
Continuing our (intermittent) series of posts discussing Larry Sternberg’s insightful book (Why Jews Should NOT Be Liberals (2001, rev. 2006)), consider the danger of supporting the actions/programs espoused by the current majority, without (or despite?) considering whether they actually make sense or if similar programs have a history of success. It’s something worth considering, no […]
Tags: American Jews, blindly supporting the majority, Jewish history, Jewish tradition, Jewish values, Jews in WW2, Judaism, liberal Jews, liberalism, Patriot Act
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September 14, 2010
Everybody with at least a junior-high education has heard of “survival of the fittest.” It is a common way of expressing Charles Darwin’s proposition of the importance of competitive advantage in the survival of a species. In a nutshell, the theory holds that the way plant and animal groups spread out over the eons was […]
Tags: Biology Letters, changes to evolutionary theory, Charles Darwin, competitive pressures, Darwin was wrong, Darwinist establishment, ecospace, Howard Falcon-Lang, Mike Benton, National Center for Scientific Education, NCSE, Neo-Darwinism, origin of the species, radiation of species, Sarda Sahney, survival of the fittest, tetrapod evolution, tetrapods
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September 12, 2010
Y’know, for some reason, I couldn’t think of anything I wanted to blog about this weekend. Plus, today’s my birthday, so I have an excuse for loafing off, right? Then I came across some awesome pictures from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. I think they’re pretty amazing, so I decided to share ’em. […]
Tags: Astronomy, astronomy images, Astronomy Photographer of the Year, photographs, photography competition
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September 9, 2010
In his book Why Jews Should NOT Be Liberals (2001, rev. 2006), Larry F. Sternberg gives a bit of history, explaining how Jews in the late-18th & early-19th centuries came to think so highly of “socialism”. Unfortunately, they did not understand the true, basic tenets of the system, and it cost them and their descendants […]
Tags: American Jews, communist, Czar Alexander III, diaspora, European Jewry, idolatry, International Socialist Movement, Jewish tradition, Judaism, liberal Jews, liberalism, Marxist/Leninist, National Socialist Party, pogroms, progressives, progressivism, Second Commandment, socialism, Ten Commandments
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September 8, 2010
Today, I would like to return to Larry F. Sternberg’s wonderful book Why Jews Should NOT Be Liberals (2001, rev. 2006). In fact, perhaps I should have made this the first post re the book, since it is where Sternberg lays out a framework of sorts for the rest of the book. I’ll let him […]
Tags: American Jews, anti-Semitism, conservatism, free market, how Jews vote, Jewish history, Jewish struggle for freedom, Jewish values, Judaism, Larry Sternberg, liberal Jews, liberalism, Milton Friedman, Nathaniel Wyl, Rabbi Lapin, why jews are liberal
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September 5, 2010
Wind energy. Electricity generated by the power of the wind. It’s a cool idea. (Or, should I say “hot”?) Clean (i.e., no carbon emissions or other harmful waste products), natural and “renewable”. Presumably cheap, too. Yay! Every politician’s dream, especially those who are funded and/or pressured by the environmentalist lobbyists and other “green” groups. Of […]
Tags: alternative energy sources, Biglow Canyon Wind Farm, Bonneville Power Administration, BPA, Braes O'Doune Wind Farm, carbon dioxide emissions, carbon emissions, Cascade Policy Institute, clean coal, clean energy, climate change, global warming, green energy, hydroelectric, natural gas, nuclear power, OPUC, Oregon Public Utility Commission, PGE, Portland General Electric, Robert Bryce, T. Boone Pickens, Waxman-Markey energy bill, wind energy, wind farm, wind power, wind turbine, wind-generated power
Posted in Politics, Politics & Science, Science |
August 31, 2010
“[Maxine Waters] is one of the most self-serving, hate-filled, race-obsessed politicians in America. [And] the Democratic Party doesn’t just embrace her. It kneels at her feet.” — Michelle Malkin Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) has been in the news of late, due to accusations of ethics violations being leveled against her and investigated by the House […]
Tags: black racism, CAGW, CBC, Citizens Against Government Waste, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Congressional Black Caucus, Congresswoman Waters, CREW, Damian Williams, double standards, ethics charges, Fidel Castro, House Ethics Committee, Joanne Chesimard, Joe Lieberman, L.A. riots, liberals, Martin Luther King, Maxine Waters, OneUnited Bank, Out of Iraq Caucus, political asylum in Cuba, Porker of the Month, progressivism, race-baiting, racism, Reginald Denny, Representative Waters, Rodney King, Senator Lieberman, South Central L.A., Watts riots
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August 26, 2010
Here is another excerpt from the terrific book Why Jews Should NOT Be Liberals (2001, rev. 2006) by Larry F. Sternberg. Specifically, we continue from the last post, in which Sternberg (with insights from Thomas Sowell and Judge Robert Bork) looked at the tendency of liberals to not only group people into classes but to […]
Tags: American Jews, class envy, class warfare, communist, Great Commandment, Jewish tradition, Judaism, Judeo-Christian values, liberal Jews, liberalism, Marxist/Leninist, progressives, socialism, Ten Commandments
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August 26, 2010
My next couple posts continue a theme begun in my earlier posts regarding Larry F. Sternberg’s book Why Jews Should NOT Be Liberals (2001, rev. 2006). If you haven’t read them, please do; then come right back here. Liberals love to quote statistics that demonstrate great differences in income between classes in the U.S. The […]
Tags: American Jews, class envy, class warfare, conservatism, individual responsibility, Jewish tradition, Jewish values, Judaism, Judge Robert Bork, Larry Sternberg, liberal Jews, liberalism, liberals, the anointed, the benighted, Thomas Sowell, welfare programs
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August 22, 2010
Today we have a guest column from my friend Jamie Davis of the Jacksonville, FL, chapter of the Tenth Amendment Center. Take it away, Jamie… ======== Much has been said about the attack on the family and Judeo-Christian values in America. Social conservatives are understandably vexed over the abandonment of social mores and core values […]
Tags: 10th Amendment, Charlie Crist changes position, dry counties, enumerated powers, gambling laws, John Thrasher changes position, legislating morality, limits to federal power, preserving the moral fabric of society, prostitution laws, social conservatism, social conservatives, social mores, states rights, Tenth Amendment, Thomas Jefferson quotes, U.S. Constitution
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