John Bolton says that Bill Clinton’s diplomatic rescue of two American journalists being held hostage in North Korea was unwise, not only because it puts more Americans at risk in the future but because it continues the Clinton tradition of giving in when rogue states begin to behave badly.| MORE ›
A man, so far unidentified, went into a dance class at an L.A. Fitness health club near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and opened fire on those working out, killing at least 4 people before committing suicide on the premises. Preliminary reports indicate that the man had gone there looking for his former girlfriend.
Given that’s true, this is another in a seemingly endless series of cases in which men who are unable to deal with adversity in their lives snap and go berserk, killing everything in their path.| MORE ›
I don’t often disagree with Sister Toldjah – she’s one of my favorite conservative bloggers – but the case of the cheated-upon wife and the mistresses ganging up on the jerk who was having his way with all of them is one time when I don’t think she’s right.
Seems to me the cad got a taste of what he had coming and not the whole enchilada at that. As ST points out, society is indeed prejudiced against men when it comes to punishment for this sort of behavior.| MORE ›
There are those who believe that when radical environmentalists run amok it’s acceptable, even laudable – because it’s for a worthy cause. But when citizens of the United States attempt to exercise their Constitutional right to control their government by demanding that the left’s massive takeover of health care in this country actually be paid for, those same people are suddenly for shutting up and toeing the government line.| MORE ›
Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic displays the most recent demonstration of the dysfunction that is destroying the movement towards health care reform in the United States. At its core, it is a version of the fundamental attribution error — the psychological phenomenon by which most people instinctively excuse their own questionable actions under the belief that they have no other choice but attribute others’ “bad” actions to bad character.| MORE ›
Rasmussen reports that nearly half of Americans polled rate the healthcare system as good or excellent. These numbers represent a dramatic increase from the 35% answering similarly in May of this year.
Has American healthcare gotten dramatically better in the last quarter? Of course not. The reason for the improvement, I believe, is readily understood: The public, having seen and heard portions of the Democrats’ proposals to revamp the nation’s medical delivery mechanisms, have suddenly come to realize that they do in fact have something to lose.
My post last week criticizing Princeton ethics professor Peter Singer received a storm of protest, including comments from a much more respectable ethicist professor as well as email that I am fairly confident came from one of Singer’s own adoring graduate students. The primary charge from these defenders of Singer was that I was being unfair to the great man by calling his ethical views morally reprehensible.| MORE ›
I don’t know what is more disturbing, the fact that over half of Republicans seem prone to be “birthers” and more than half of Democrats are prone towards “truthers” OR that most of the supposedly centrist/moderate blogosphere seems only to care to criticize the Republican half of this troubling picture.| MORE ›
Sad as it may be, this cannot possibly come as a surprise to anyone:
To get the economy back on track, will President Barack Obama have to break his pledge not to raise taxes on 95 percent of Americans? In a “This Week” exclusive, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told me, “We’re going to have to do what’s necessary.”
Geithner was clear that he believes a key component of economic recovery is deficit reduction.| MORE ›
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