In This Dimension

Democrats out-Hoover Hoover

Once again we have Democrats playing feel-good, sound-bite economics in an election-year campaign.

Now that we seem headed to Recession – largely as a result of interest groups forcing Congress to enable the uncredit-worthy public to get credit, which they promptly failed to repay, thereby validating the Markets’ refusal to lend to them to begin with - we have the two major Democrat contenders trying to out-Hoover one-another in their race for the ill-educated (thank a unionized teacher) vote.

Hoover did exactly what these two candidates now are proposing: raise taxes, cut free-trade.

The result, of course, was the Great Depression.

Ever-intent on introducing failed policy as the way[…]

Recession?

So now we are on the way into – or already are in – a recession, led, of course, by the housing and mortgage problems.

Logically one wonders – who got us into this mess? Who allowed folks who can’t pay off mortgages to borrow money in the first place?

Gee - what a surprise – Congress!

Forced to address the concerns of activist groups complaining that not enough un-credit-worthy people were being extended credit (there’s a reason for that…) and therefore not buying homes, Congress created and then forced bankers to issue - a mortgage environment designed for those who couldn’t pay[…]

Why can’t we call things by their proper names?

“Liberal” is a term no longer in vogue – and no wonder.

It has been totally bastardized by the Left from its original meaning, “a broad array of related ideas and theories of government that consider individual liberty to be the most important political goal,” (Wikipedia), or, “associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government,” (Webster), to a theory based on the whim of any number of self-identified “victim” groups and an absolute identification with “community” rights, with even the community self-identified.

Classical liberals, including Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Scoop Jackson, and even John F Kennedy, are nowhere to be found[…]

Baby Boomers Can’t Handle Change

What is it, exactly, about Baby Boomers and change? Why can’t they handle it?

Having lived through more change than any previous generation, having had change be a part of their daily life – from no intercontinental air transport to hundreds of flights daily, from B&W to color TV, from dial phones to touchtone to cells, from TV and movies to CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, change has been a constant of Boomers’ lives.

But ask a Boomer to accept change? To embrace it? To look for it? What do you get? Hysteria.

Look – my dad moved to California in 1923. I[…]

Scientific American

Not to pick too much on Scientific American, but the magazine is such an easy target for people who think rather than feel about the world.

Arabian Brainpower, a nice fuzzy little article on the opening of a university in Arabia – and the prediction that it really will be a university. This is nonsense, of course, but nice fuzzy stuff for a left-of-center mag. For context, a friend joined the Peace Corps in 1977 and taught Physics in Kabul, Afghanistan. Or tried to. The moon was landed on by man? Don’t be absurd – Mohammed said it’s only as large as the[…]

Scientific American and Science

Reading the “From the Editor” column in this month’s (February, 2008) Scientific American presents several problems and quite a bit of irony.

Scientific American widely is regarded as an excellent magazine bringing science to the general public. Among topics often editorialized is the dismal state of science education in America. One likes to think it to be a politically-neutral magazine, the intent of its authors to be to go beyond the capabilities of news journalists or science columnists in daily papers to investigate and present on issues in more depth.

One would be wrong. It is definitely left-of-center in its investigations and[…]

Can we talk about movie piracy?

So help me out with this one.

In the 1960s, when the current crop of “leaders” of Tinsel Town were in their politically formative years, they stole stuff all the time.

I have ex-good-friends who thought nothing in the 1980s of owning two VCRs so they could copy a rented VHS tape while watching it, returning said tape to the rental store the next day.

Abbie Hoffman even wrote a book, Steal This Book. A friend of mine did.

No law disliked by Baby Boomers ever has gone unchallenged or unbroken.

So now they run Hollywood. And now were supposed to worry about people stealing[…]

Warfighting speed and focus vs. the Broad Front.

Current American warfighting doctrine is based largely on the successes of fast-strike campaigns such as the Nazi’s Blitzkrieg of WW2, Patton’s 3rd-Army charge across France and more recent charges to the Iraqi border in 1992 and to Baghdad in 2003. Built on the Euro-centric idea that a force will quit the field when told to by its deposed leadership, this strategy may be less-than-useless in facing a non-European enemy.

The opposite strategy, employed on the largest scale in modern times by General Eisenhower in WW2 in the European Theater of Operations, was the Broad Front Strategy. Rather than a lightning strike to Berlin[…]

Multiculturalism

Here is yet another idiocy of the Left. Somehow the Left can equate all cultures as relative – and relatively benign (except, of course, the United Sates and the West due to their indescribable brutality, evil, bigotry and everything else that causes people like Michelle Obama never to be proud of us, but nevertheless to raise her children here).

(News Flash, Mrs. Obama: If you aren’t proud of your country, if our “soul” is “sick” raise your children elsewhere - or don’t have them. What better way to foment hate across the generations than to raise kids in a country of which[…]