Archive for the month of November, 2009

More Reality of “Multiculturalism”

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 under Domestic, Foreign Policy and International, Multiculturalism, The Rest of the World

Those pretending to the conceit of “multiculturalism,” and it is a pretense, have convinced themselves that non-Western cultures are at least as significant and worthy of respect as is the West. If you go to the liberal arts department of any major American University you will be taught that the West is the root of all evil and that other cultures must be respected as they are better than ours.

Leaving aside the idiocy of using the liberty and freedom that exist only in the West to criticize the West, and leaving aside the FACT that nothing of note since paper[…]

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White House Politicizing Science.. still…..

Monday, November 2nd, 2009 under Domestic, Politics

I thought Obama was going to de-politicize science…? No?

Junk Science Returns to the White House

By Bill Frezza

Regardless of your tribal affiliations, were you cautiously optimistic when our new president promised to “restore science to its rightful place” in the formulation of public policy? Were you embarrassed by the prior occupant’s politicization of issues that should have been decided on a more scientific basis? Did you assume that Barack Obama would surround himself with apolitical science advisors unencumbered by embarrassing anti-science baggage and free of culture-war axes to grind?

To paraphrase a once famous mayor of New York - So how’s he doing[…]

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