Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Medley Of Recent Insights
Perspective From "Flyover Country"
William Grim, like myself, is origionally from Ohio and offers some interesting behind the scenes insight into the events of last week.
Snobs For Socialism
"All sorts of modern extremist movements, such as the Weathermen in the United States or the Bader-Meinhof gang in Germany, have attracted a disproportionate number of the affluent in general and the intellectuals in particular."
As usual, Thomas Sowell points out the obvious regarding the skewed hypocrisies of Left-land, particularly in the recent election.
Killing Terrorists "Makes More Of Them?"
We've been told for quite some time now that Bush's firm stand against the Jihad is merely "creating more terrorists..." but there really is no reason to assume this to be true, and there's certainly no factual information pointing to such a conclusion. Jonathan V. Last raises some important questions in this regard:
"...The other factor is an implicit belief that Islamism is different from other pathologies. I doubt Kaus would have argued in 1944 that killing Nazis was only going to create twice as many of them."
Politically Incorrect Counter-Jihad
Islam has developed a bad image of late -- go figure. Those evil "Fascist Americans" are questioning the Muslim value system. I wonder why? Turns out the "religion of peace" is developing a really bad track record. And we're not supposed to notice.
The election is over, but the forces of blatant nonsense haven't disappeared. There will always be someone who loves the state...and always someone who loves their own ideas so much that they think they should be imposed on everyone else. The real rebellion is for the individual. The real rebel merely wishes to be left alone. Now, why is that a problem?
William Grim, like myself, is origionally from Ohio and offers some interesting behind the scenes insight into the events of last week.
Snobs For Socialism
"All sorts of modern extremist movements, such as the Weathermen in the United States or the Bader-Meinhof gang in Germany, have attracted a disproportionate number of the affluent in general and the intellectuals in particular."
As usual, Thomas Sowell points out the obvious regarding the skewed hypocrisies of Left-land, particularly in the recent election.
Killing Terrorists "Makes More Of Them?"
We've been told for quite some time now that Bush's firm stand against the Jihad is merely "creating more terrorists..." but there really is no reason to assume this to be true, and there's certainly no factual information pointing to such a conclusion. Jonathan V. Last raises some important questions in this regard:
"...The other factor is an implicit belief that Islamism is different from other pathologies. I doubt Kaus would have argued in 1944 that killing Nazis was only going to create twice as many of them."
Politically Incorrect Counter-Jihad
Islam has developed a bad image of late -- go figure. Those evil "Fascist Americans" are questioning the Muslim value system. I wonder why? Turns out the "religion of peace" is developing a really bad track record. And we're not supposed to notice.
The election is over, but the forces of blatant nonsense haven't disappeared. There will always be someone who loves the state...and always someone who loves their own ideas so much that they think they should be imposed on everyone else. The real rebellion is for the individual. The real rebel merely wishes to be left alone. Now, why is that a problem?
