It should be kept in mind that the self-conscious goal of progressive policy is certainty that immediate and comforting outcomes must be achieved. Thus the engineering of profound change must above all be SWIFT and if possible SUDDEN. To permit reflection or prudence to come into the process of change poisons the purpose because they [...]
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Over the Delaware at Trenton hard by the old railroad tracks a huge old steel sign proclaims TRENTON MAKES- THE WORLD TAKES. I imagine the sign was put up maybe eighty or a hundred years ago- in an era when the USA was a world leader in manufacturing. Now, of course, this [...]
In today’s WSJ appears an angry letter from Jamie Gorelick, Reno’s Deputy, purporting to refute WSJ’s article about Gorelick’s depredations against a secure America while a Clintonite yrs ago. It seems to me that she doth protest overly much! Further research shows that she was one of the original 4th Amendment maniacs who treasured abstract [...]
Conyers and his Committee have been planning to charge Bush for a long time. What they would like ultimately, I believe, is to reopen the ICC Treaty and have the U.S. sign on. Then they will combine with some of the “universal jurisdiction” countries in the EU and elsewhere to charge Bush with crimes against [...]
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Obama was elected by many voters whose swooning adulation for him is less rational than the whooping of the emotional religious fundamentalists of the right who, these die-hard Obamians believe, are the main threat to our civil liberties. A comparison of the attitudinal character of the two groups is revealing. Obamians assert that the [...]
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“The Forsaken,” a book by British author Tim Tzouliadis and published this year by Penguin Books Ltd., relates the ghastly story of thousands of utopian and gullible Americans and Europeans who believed the rank soviet propaganda of the early Depression years about jobs and a wonderful life and embarked for the Workers’ Paradise never to [...]
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In its May’06 issue, The Atlantic Magazine,(formerly the Atlantic Monthly, the heroic and venerable nineteenth century Boston-based abolitionist gazette), Matthew Quirk, staff researcher, tells us inter alia in his “Calendar” segment on p.17, in connection with a U.S. planning initiative to encourage a democratic transition in the Cuban leadership upon Fidel’s death ( thought by [...]
The emperor’s clothes elites of the 21st century look on freedom as a quaint concept from a past era long surpassed by ease and pleasure. They should remember that freedom is a scary serious business and that 56 persons put their aortas on the line to get ours started- and we became the prototype