Bastille Day
Our sympathy to the French on the sad anniversary of a revolting massacre.
James Kalb
What is conservatism?
An online publication asked me to write a column on “what is a conservative,” so I put together a draft. It’s a conservative news site in South Carolina, rather well edited, and they’ve just been through an election in which there was a lot of discussion what a “true conservative” is.
Any comments?
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The Homintern strikes again!
Diversity and tolerance just keep rolling, at least in the sense that everything has to be the same everywhere: Peru Celebrates First Gay Pride Event and Malta’s Green Party Puts Gay Rights On The Agenda. There seems to be nothing local about current trends, which to my mind should put to rest (in the … More ...
Roommate discrimination
More tolerance! Eugene Volokh, libertarian-leaning immigrant Russian-Jewish law professor, has dug up a recent California Fair Employment & Housing Commission case in which the Commision fined a woman $500 for inflicting “emotional distress” on a would-be roommate by telling him that “I don’t really like black guys. I try to be fair and all, but … More ...
Family affairs in Germany
The German Christian Democrats get with the program: their 28-year-old pregnant unmarried mom shadow spokeswoman for family affairs is appealing for the votes of homosexuals by promising various gay rights reforms that it seems the Social Democrats and Greens have failed to deliver.
Eakins and Gauguin
We escaped the heat yesterday by a visit to the Metropolitan Museum and were particularly struck by an exhibition of Thomas Eakins’ work and by some Gauguin canvases. Both represented possible responses to the basic problem of the late 19th century, the death of God. Eakins’ response was a sort of heroic materialism, the artist … More ...
World government as the solution to illegal immigration
We’ve puzzled before over the claim that EU expansion is the answer to the problem of illegal immigration. Statements of UN officials such as Ruud Lubbers, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, suggest the reason:
… More ...“Europe’s asylum and migration problems cannot be addressed in Europe alone … It is in the regions of origin
Powell’s evocation of American liberty
Meanwhile, at the birthplace of American liberty, Colin Powell gets 100,000 bucks and a gold Liberty Medal in exchange for a speech in which he “called on Americans to live up to their national ideal of liberty by confronting poverty, bigotry and inequality as the nation pursues its war on terrorism.” Powell “focused on … More ...
EU parliament demands acceptance of abortion right
Human rights just keep rolling: EU Parliament Votes To Establish Europe-Wide Right to Abortion . The resolution is non-binding, but nonetheless indicative. One interesting point is that it relies on The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for the legal framework justifying assertion of the right. According to the … More ...
In the civil rights trenches
Could a free people conceivably accept the civil rights laws? Here’s a report from the front: “Specially Ill-Educated”, on the effects of the Federal command to “mainstream” students with behavioral disorders. If a kid kicks and bites but doesn’t injure people seriously it’s been decided in Washington that local educators can’t remove him from … More ...