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Affirmative Action — When Helping Ends Up Hurting
"Once the standards are lowered for some, they are indirectly lowered for all." — Abraham H. Miller
Judd’s ‘Missing’ Just Misses
Sometimes a TV show does just about everything right, and yet . . . one still doesn't feel any need to make a habit of watching it.
Such is the case—for me, at least—with the new ABC drama Missing. Ashley Judd stars as a former CIA agent whose college-student son is abducted while studying abroad in Rome, Italy. . . .
Journalism, Truth, “This American Life” and the Modern Liberal
I got an e-mail from Ira Glass last week. I found that odd, because I don’t believe I’ve ever received an e-mail from the host of the popular NPR show This American Life. It was a mea culpa. They had discovered that one of their most popular shows had contained numerous fabrications, and he wrote to apologize. The week’s hour long episode was called “Retraction.” I heard most of it and found it a telling metaphor for modern liberalism’s tenuous relationship with the truth.
When Privacy Is Abolished, What’s a Murderer to Do?
"... he felt uncomfortable, as though that prescient Eye, years in the future, could with a wink summon the police. But it was separated from him by a barrier of time that only the natural processes could shorten. And, in fact, it had been watching him since his birth. You could look at it that way ..."
A Different Romney-Paul for 2012?
Spotting what might be an interesting cultural trend, political and cultural analyst Thomas Sipos sees a possible convergence of political interests between free marketers and conventional libertarians.
The possibility of a Mitt Romney/Ron Paul 2012 ticket first occurred to me during the South Carolina GOP primary debates. Gingrich was harsh on Romney, whereas Paul was more polite. Paul had placed a strong third in Iowa, and second in New Hampshire. I doubted that Paul could win the GOP presidential nomination, but what if he continued to place strong second or third places in the remaining primaries? . . .
LA Times Now Charging for Access
Since I was born and raised in LA and now live in the Chicago area I’ve made it a habit every morning to visit the LA Times website to see what’s going on in my hometown, and most importantly see what’s going with my hometown sports teams. But I’m not doing that anymore. I got an e-mail a couple weeks back from the LA Times saying they were soon going to be charging for their online content.
Freedom of Religion for Everyone — Well, Almost Everyone
"It's part of a pattern. There is basically a war on anyone who dissents from Darwin and we've seen that for several years." — John West
Victimhood Mentality Prevails at USDA
When victims can be criminals, just who is the injured party? Only the forgotten man, the citizen-taxpayer.
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