Archive for March 2015
Traits of a sociopath
Sociopath is now a retired term in psychology and has been replaced by psychopath. I disagree with that because I think the word psychopath is most commonly associated with mental illness. Sociopath better connotes personality defects which are distinct from illness. I am also suspicious that the psychology profession desperately wants to depict serial killers…
Read MoreGlobal warming will turn women into prostitutes?
Well, that’s what Democrat Congresswoman Barbara Lee says. There hasn’t seemed to be any global warming going on for the last 17 years, but put that aside for now. The amount of warming predicted in future due to human existence is about 1° C, from a doubling of CO2. The warmers have another argument that…
Read MoreWisdom and history in 15 minutes
From Powerline Blog, Steven Hayward listens to Fred Siegel in the two videos below. The first is 8 minutes and the second is 7 minutes long. I can’t think of a better way to spend 15 minutes. Fred Siegel has written several books on political history. The two I’ve read are The Revolt Against the…
Read MoreBrooklyn Law School unhappy with its bar passage rate
Graduates of the Brooklyn Law School (BLS) have traditionally done well on the Multi-state Bar Exam (MBE). In July 2013, 94% of its first-time exam takers passed the MBE. In July 2014 the BLS passage rate fell to 84%, still respectable by national standards. Not good enough though, according to Dean Nicholas W. Allard. Dean…
Read MoreFrance doesn’t like Obama’s Iran deal
Obama Administration Threatens U.S. Allies for Disagreeing with Iran Nuke Deal. Western policy analysts who spoke to the Free Beacon, including some with close ties to the French political establishment, were dismayed over what they saw as the White House’s willingness to sacrifice its relationship with Paris as talks with Iran reach their final stages. A…
Read MorePutting Fascism in proper perspective
Democrats have fostered the notion that Fascisim is a right-wing ideology. That’s always been hard for me to swallow given that the three Fasicst governments in history never seemed very right-winged to me. The three Fascist regimes were Nazi Germany, Italy under Mussolini, and the longest lasting of the three being Francisco Franco’s Spain from…
Read MoreAmericans not buying what whacko environmentalists selling
Two recent Gallup polls are bad news for the environmental alarmists. Americans Rating of Environment Inches Up to Record High In U.S., Concern About Environmental Threats Eases The graph below shows the percentage of Americans who rate the quality of the environment as excellent, fair and poor. The latest results show that 50% rate the…
Read MoreNorman Borlaug (1914-2009) and the Green Revolution
What he did 50 years ago was called the Green Revolution. It saved a billion lives. If he hadn’t done it then, nobody would be allowed to do it today. Liberals would fight to stop it. Don Surber explains what Borlaug understood: The way to fight diseases that attack wheat and other cereals was not…
Read MoreFinally! A Republican who can take questions from the media…
…AND ANSWER THEM BRILLIANTLY! Especially this one: Would you repeal Obamacare and leave 16 million people without healthcare?
Read MoreTell him what he should be told
“There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable, in large part because so many of them can be leveled against the federal government of the United States.” —P. J. O’Rourke
Read MoreFrancis Fukuyama on the Modern State
Where did the modern state come from? What makes it different from the Republics of Classical Greece and Rome? In the video below, the latest episode of The American Mind, Charles Kesler and Francis Fukuyama discuss the nature and origins of the modern nation-state. Mr. Fukuyama’s latest book is, Political Order and Political Decay: From…
Read MoreStarbucks’ coming public relations train wreck
Starbucks founder Howard Schultz has ordered the baristas — that’s what Starbucks calls its store clerks — to begin serving coffee with a spoonful of social enlightenment. It’s called “Race Together.” Starting last Friday, baristas will be encouraged to write “Race Together” on coffee cups “to facilitate a conversation between you and our customers” about…
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