In This Dimension

Put Reasonable Adults in Charge of Interrogation

As others have observed, if we can’t be tougher than a 3rd-grade teacher on mass murderers in order to prevent the next mass murder they may be planning, no reason exists to feed and house these detainees. Since re-patriating them already has been shown to be lethal, that is not - or should not be - an option.

Let’s use a little logic here:
1. We have not been successfully attacked during the period in which we have interrogated the bad guys.
2. To believe this is coincidental requires Mrs Clinton’s “suspension of disbelief.”
2. But we no longer can ask them hard questions
3.[…]

Why are Democras Unilateralists on Tax Policy?

What am I missing in the whole multilateral, be-like-the-rest-of-the-world argument?

OK – sometimes perhaps acting in a multilateral way, i.e. taking cues from other countries and behaving accordingly might be right. (No – I’m not proposing having a defense policy like France, in which their newest aircraft carrier dropped a screw in mid-ocean, nor like Germany’s, in which their soldiers can deploy as part of their NATO responsibility; they just can’t fight.)

I’m talking about taxes.

While industrialized countries the world over are lowering their tax rates and increasing jobs, Democrats in Congress are raising our tax rates.

This is very mono-cultural and unilateral.

And[…]

John Fund on Global Warming WSJ

John Fund of the Wall Street Journal is one of the very best journalists writing today. He uses facts rather than emotion to make his arguments, such arguments thereby being both sound and politically non-biased. He argues for and against both the Left and the Right, though intellectually rather than noisily. Of course this means he more often discredits the Left as it is that side of the aisle which relies more on feeling than thinking, thereby leaving holes in their argumentation through which trucks can be driven. Mr. Fund navigates these holes in logic and thinking with style and[…]

Liberals Don’t Believe it Either

The Liberal lexicon is filled with a number of words, phrases, causes, prescriptions and proscriptions. Often it seems as if no one consistently can do the “right thing” as the “right thing” is changing too often for all but a few to keep track of. Most, if not all, of the lexicon consists of telling others how to feel. Little, if any, is based on facts, evidence, empirical study, critical thinking or common sense.

The major news media, people whose job is to sell soap, cars, and snack foods on the major broadcast television networks, and the three major newspapers in[…]

What Are we Reading?

What we read does indeed matter. What future leaders read matters quite a bit - it forms their ideas of the world, their grasp (or lack thereof) of history, and their consciousness of how to move the culture and civilization forward.

The mother of a friend of one of our children recently walked into our family room and, upon seeing the filled bookcases lining one wall, asked, “Who reads?”

This is not a future leader, nor a parent raising one.

Here is an excellent article on the subject of kids posting you’ll-be-sorry-later content on FaceBook, and on what Harvard grads are reading. Fascinating.

As the[…]

Why Won’t the Media Recognize Racism?

In Bret Schulte’s column, “A Quiet, Yet Historic Moment” in the June 16 issue of US News & World Report, once again the Media refuses to discuss racism when it’s on their preferred side of the aisle.

How, exactly, are we - as a country - going to get past racism by refusing to acknowledge where it actually exists and combatting it there and then?

I know it’s fun for the Democrats and the Media to pretend that racism exists only in the bad-old-GOP ranks. It’s also ignorant and immature.

The GOP was the party of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was the Party that[…]