Month: May 2006

The question “Why isn’t socialism dead?” plagues many people like me, whose attempts to use logic and reason keep coming up dry. Via Glenn Reynolds, I see that Lee Harris offers an answer. Socialism isn’t dead — and cannot die — because it is a religion. And religion cannot be defeated by logic or reason:…

While I hate to resort to personal ridicule of a serious person, I have this theory that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not a serious man. We’ve all read his ridiculous remarks, so I won’t bore readers by regurgitating them. But the more I look at his pictures, the more ridiculous he appears. Here’s just a sampling:…

Lest anyone think emotional or illogical reporting is limited to mainstream media outlets like the Philadelphia Inquirer, a blaring headline in WorldNetDaily proclaims “Bill to ban ‘mom, dad’ from texts advances — California law would remove sex-specific terms from books, mandate pro-homosexual lessons. WorldNetDaily asserts that the bill (SB 1437) would do all of the…

Philadelphia Mayor John Street made a remark today which I think says a lot while appearing to say very little. In exasperation over recent shootings near Philadelphia’s dysfunctional Olney High School, he once again echoed the familiar theme that “arguments” are at the root of the problem: Yesterday’s violence outside the school comes at a…

Speaking of dissent, the Carnival of the RINOs is now posted at Inside Larry’s Head. Larry takes a Maoist approach to dissenting Republicans, and he finds: much Counter-Revolutionary activity in the RINO Party. The following are to be considered highly counter-revolutionary and to be submitted for immediate re-education. By definition, RINOs are in much need…

A word on the near-civil war in the Republican Party. I hate disagreement, I hate culture war, and I hate civil war. The angry tone that the immigration debate has taken bothers the hell out of me, and I regret — often very bitterly — that so many people are calling each other RINOs and…

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Trudy Rubin is not someone with whom I often agree. But in her editorial today, she has it right when she sees assimilation as the key to successful immigration: One of the most articulate critics of Europe’s immigration policy, especially toward Muslim immigrant communities, spoke this week in Philadelphia at a conference…

One of the most startling stories I have yet read in the Philadelphia Inquirer was buried on the back page of the Local News section. Barbara Boyer’s “One neighborhood, two lives, two paths” begins with an anti-gun editorial slant which is all too typical in today’s news reports: The two young North Philadelphia men grew…

Via John Hawkins, I just found out about the Andrea Clark case (involving a hospital refusing care to a patient who has lived too long with an expensive illness), and I thought I should spread the word. One of my worst fears is that in the future, patients will be euthanized to save money. Rather…

Could it be done? Couldn’t we show the evil MSM who’s really boss that way? I mean, we are the Internet, aren’t we? If for once we really got together — left and right — why, bloggers could put down their keyboards, lose their mice, remove their working pajamas, and take to the streets en…

While I hate to be argumentative, I’m having an argument with myself. One of the reasons I blog is because I don’t like arguments. But that’s a contradiction, because blogging is a form of argument. And there are too many arguments. So if you don’t like arguments, blogging is not likely to make them go…

Today’s Philadelphia’s May Day immigration demonstration took the form of a march from center city to the office of Senator Arlen Specter (in the Independence Mall area). While similar to the one held April 10 (which I photoblogged — and videoblogged), today’s demo was not as well attended, and at Independence Mall the speeches were…

What intrigues me the most about today’s demonstrations is this tidbit: Large U.S. meat processors, including Cargill Inc., Tyson Foods Inc. and Seaboard Corp. said they will close plants. What does that mean? Do these big businesses want to help increase the numbers at the demonstrations? Is the idea to help support legalization of their…