Keeping the welfare state from destroying America. Professor Amy Chua of the Yale law school is better known as a "Tiger Mom" because of her take-no-prisoners, tough love approach to raising children. She and her husband Jed Rubenfeld (a fellow Yale law professor) have written what may turn out to be the best book of this year. It is titled ... MORE
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Showing posts with label media. Show all posts
Jim Yardley: What Truly Is Liberty?
Give some thought to what you are about to lose. When was the last time you thought about, wrote about, or talked about the concept of liberty? That's not a question that needs to be answered by the talking heads, mainstream media, or political pundits, but the ordinary folk known to each of us. It might be your sister, ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Race-Hustling Results
Scoring the racial grievance industry. Years ago, someone said that, according to the laws of aerodynamics, bumblebees cannot fly. But the bumblebees, not knowing the laws of aerodynamics, go ahead and fly anyway. Something like that happens among people. There have been many ponderous academic writings and dour editorials in the ... MORE
Eric Peters: Assault And GM's $30,000 Battery
You might be allotted 200 miles between rechargings. The economy must be doing a lot better than all the wretched
indexes (number of people no longer even trying to find
work, number of people on the dole, etc.) indicate. Otherwise, GM
would not have
announced it is committed to developing a new electric car
battery capable ... MORE
The Land Of The Free Is Now A Nation Of Sheep
by Bill Frezza. No, this is not another diatribe about the futility of many gun control laws and the geographic correlation between the level of gun crime and the hurdles law-abiding citizens have to surmount to provide for their own defense. Nor is it a rant about the media exploitation of tragedies like the recent Navy Yard shooting. ... MORE
IBD: Too Much Government Caused The Great Recession
by Scott S. Powell. Just a generation after the collapse of the Soviet socialist system, a recent Pew poll reports that 49% of Americans 18-29 years old have a positive view of socialism, while only 46% have positive views of capitalism. The ambivalence toward capitalism is due in part to the influence of the information and entertainment class ... MORE
Steven Greenhut: Journalism Is An Act, Not A Profession
Great journalism can come from average citizens. Watching some recent debates about who is a “real journalist” and who isn’t has been a source of amusement for me given that being a real journalist has not always been that great of an honor. When I told Mom I was getting a job in journalism, she was miffed that her son would waste ... MORE
Jonah Goldberg: Don't Edit The First Amendment
The press forgets the inconvenient parts. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” That's the full text ... MORE
The Boston Mindset: Cringe Like Sheep
A reality check from William A. Levinson. Colonel Jeff Cooper's To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth describes exactly what is wrong with the United States today. Cooper wrote of the society in which he grew up during the 1930s. Boys were taught to shoot and use their hands, and girls were taught to expect that in their men. ... MORE
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2nd Amendment,
firearms,
government,
law enforcement,
media,
politics,
protection,
terrorism
Rasmussen Poll: 6% Rate News Media As Very Trustworthy
What are they thinking? Most voters still get their news from television and consider the news reported by the media generally trustworthy. Fifty-six percent (56%) of Likely U.S. Voters say they get most of their news from TV, including 32% who get it from cable news networks and 24% who get it from traditional network news. A new ... MORE
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citizens,
deception,
Internet,
journalism,
media,
media bias,
news,
poll,
reporting,
television
Mike Riggs: Obama Is Transparently Disappointing
Where did "unprecedented openness in government" go? On March 28, 2011, a group of leading transparency advocates
passed through the security checkpoints along the perimeter of the
White House compound to present Barack Obama with an
award for his efforts to open up government. The president who took
office promising “an .... MORE
Motivating Youth To Watch Presidential Debates
by Katie Kieffer. Hit the gym; grab dinner with friends; build a bonfire. These are three evening activities I prefer to watching presidential debates—and I am a political commentator. Few young people watch presidential debates and I understand why. After Wednesday’s initial presidential debate, I realized that Republicans are failing to exploit the debates and ... MORE
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