Posts Tagged ‘Ideas’

While doing some followup research on Bill Ayers, the subject of the previous post, I found his blog and read some of the posts. What I found most fascinating were the comments. Many were rational and sane and many more were borderline psychopathic. I admire Bill Ayers’ courage in allowing those hateful comments to stand, [...]

I’m a little late with this commentary, but there are so many issues that have been brought forth with the nomination of Sarah Palin as the vice presidential candidate of John McCain that perhaps you will excuse me. As McCain’s campaign has descended into the pit of divisiveness, hate-mongering, and lies, I find myself fascinated [...]

Since starting this blog early last month, I have been wrestling with the paramount theme that underlies the campaign for the office of the President of the United States this year: conservatism vs. liberalism. In some early posts, I looked at the definition of a conservative and then the definition of a liberal. I lurched [...]

John McCain and Sarah Palin style themselves as “mavericks” – I thought you would like to know more about how the word came to be. Then, you can decide if McCain and Palin are mavericks or if they are something else. This article was published in the New York Times on October 4, 2008: Who [...]

You are all familiar with the Conservative talking point taken from the book, The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, regarding the “invisible hand”. Conservatives would have you believe that this passage justifies the existence of a free market that should never be regulated by government. Here is the actual passage, taken from Book IV, [...]

1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything. 2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light. 3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed. 4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband [...]

I found the following wisdom in the March, 2007 issue of Prospect magazine. The essay is by Rudi Bogni: Left vs Right was and is purely a nominal distinction between two strands of the same totalitarian posture. The real problem of the 20th century was that the demographic and economic pressures that fractured the empires [...]

Continuing the previous post, and with tongue still firmly in cheek regarding the titles of these two posts, I would like to now define a Conservative. Again, this post relies on the observations of Mr. Sullivan, who is the author of this website. I am going to take a little different approach with this post, [...]

Since it seems as though it has been “open season” on Liberals for quite a long time, I think it is way past time to define what it is that is so horrible that electing Liberals will lead to the destruction of this country. So, with considerable help from a wonderful website, I hereby offer [...]