Today's exaggeratedly deferent brand of tolerance is driven by a darker force than mere let's-all-get-along multiculturalism, and that is fear. In the post-9/11 world, we are arriving at an unspoken understanding that zealots in our midst must not be offended, lest in their indignation they do something horrible.(Read more...)
Well, I'm encouraged that the number of believers has dropped from 77% to 44% in 36 years - proof that intelligent life exists in the British Isles! The churches there must be very worried. While I don't have the latest stats from the US on belief in God, I'm sure the number of true believers is significantly higher am...(Read more...)
"Despite the fact that farm income has doubled in two years, federal subsidies have also gone up nearly 40 percent over the same period - projected at $15.7 billion this year, and $130 billion over the last nine years. And that bounty is drawing fire from people who say that at this moment of farm prosperity, the natio...(Read more...)
Why have Americans gotten so fat? Trial lawyers are lining up to sue the makers of snacks and fast foods, but a big part of the reason for the growth in girth is something Americans *aren't* putting in their mouths: cigarettes. As The New York Times noted this week, weight gain and smoking cessation are correlat...(Read more...)
A Christmas Carol Posted by Barbara Branden on 12/23/2004, 12:24pm
Ayn Rand: The ruggedly handsome and weirdly articulate Ebeneezer Scrooge is a successful executive held back by the corrupt morality of a society that hates ... http://www.techcentralstation.com/122304D.html(Read more...)
The past few days a U. S. media controversy has erupted over an environmentalist group's shameless manipulation of elementary school children for propaganda purposes. I am happy to have played a role in exposing this outrage, as I outline in this entry on my blog. The Rainforest Action Network -- a "direct actio...(Read more...)
It's a good bet that Ayn Rand, the self-proclaimed radical for capitalism, would not have approved. The heart of the problem seems to be a slippery treatment of the term "privatization." Rand wrote, "they want to 'preserve' private property -- with government control of its use and disposal. But that is the fundamenta...(Read more...)
Activists claiming to speak for American Christendom complain that Americans who profess allegiance to Christianity constitute a cruelly oppressed minority.The kvetching is especially loud this year, with outrage over a particularly insidious form of anti-Christian bigotry: the Satanic phrase "happy holidays." (Read more...)
