Following up on my comment in CBD’s post. For whatever reason the bulk of Americans simply fail to engage in even the most basic counter speech to even the simplest problems with Islamic beliefs. We have in this country the power of free speech, and by God we should use it. Take for example Burkas….
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The Problem Is Not ISIS Or Al Qaeda; It Is Militant Islam
Even the most hawkish of pronouncements from the French have carefully focused on the tactical issue of defeating ISIS. Yes, ISIS is a problem, but the combined might of the West could dispatch it in short order. ISIS has made the elementary and existential mistake of concentrating their forces where we can see them and…
Beer, Beautiful Beer; Where Mainstream and Craft Collide
Beer, Beautiful Beer; Where Mainstream and Craft Collide A recent conversation about which “mainstream” lager I prefer brought about a new juxtaposition in my never ending quest for ultimate beer knowledge; are some craft beers now considered mainstream? My immediate response to the lager question was ‘Yuengling”, but within a breath I remembered that Yuengling,…
5 immigration myths debunked in (just over) 5 minutes
Nothing to add here; this guy pretty much says it all. Also check out the other videos he’s posted under the “Rebel Media” rubric. And another on the same topic. As an aside, I’m delighted to find the green shoots of alternative media starting to spring up. I think we would do well to spread…
Career Suicide Status: Nearly Total
If this past week or so has taught me anything, it’s that my future in academia was probably dead before it even started. I confess, I did not see this coming quite like this. I knew the academy did more than “lean” leftward. I knew it’d be a struggle to do anything given my conservative…
What Does “Limited Government” Actually Mean?
It’s axiomatic (certainly among the august writers of Cut.Jib.Newsletter) that government is too large. Well, for those with functioning higher-order thinking, which excludes our current crop of Democrat presidential candidates (and most of the Republicans too). But ask Americans outside of the Beltway and the Upper West Side, and most will agree, with a bit…
Next Up: Label Jews, As Well As Their Products
In a new low for the European Union’s Jew-haters, they have “recommended member states label the origin of goods imported from West Bank settlements, a move that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned as “hypocritical.” Next up, tasteful badges for Europe’s remaining Jews, so that the post-modern Nazis of the continent can elegantly and subtly…
And now a word from Alasdair MacIntyre
In light of all the chaos at Yale and Mizzou, I am called to remember what a wise professor said: A crucial turning point in that earlier history (of the late Roman Empire) occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the…
Thank You NY Times; Global Warming Enthusiasts Are The Real Ideological Crackpots
The NY Times has a sort of amateur hour for pop philosophers whose pontifications can’t be contained by the local Starbucks. They call it “The Opinionator,” with a few categories; one of which is called “The Stone,” for no apparent reason other than I think today’s writer is high. Today we hear from an actual…
Nice Little Business You Got There – Shame If Anything Happened To It
November 2, 2015: Clinton Calls for Exxon Probe After Company Cuts Off Foundation Funding Hillary Clinton is calling for a federal investigation of ExxonMobil’s climate change activities Source: Clinton Calls for Exxon Probe After Company Cuts Off Foundation Funding – Washington Free Beacon November 5, 2015: Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by…