thoughts in and out of season
Legal trivia: in Florida you can get 5 years for notorizing your own signature. Since it’s not clear why notorizing should matter, the law doesn’t seem to be enforced much except in special cases like anti-gay rights petitions. So in Miami two people involved in a campaign to overturn a local gay-rights ordinance … More ...
The U.N. Commission on Human Rights is still the conscience of the world: U.N. report says racism on the rise worldwide. “The current international context should not cause [combatting racism and intolerance] to be lost from view, since they affect millions of people who are daily subjected to the horrors of discriminatory treatment.” The … More ...
While visiting in-laws in suburban Columbus I looked at some of the publications they read and was struck by the continuing mainstreaming of cultural radicalism. The Columbus Dispatch ran an article on reparations in their Sunday supplement by “Harvard legal expert” Charles Ogletree, and devoted half their front page Monday to an enormous photograph … More ...
Another plot to destroy Bolognese fresco of Mohamet being cast into Hell, the second one in two months. This plot involved not only the standard four Arabs aged between 20 and 30 but also an Italian art historian, aged 55, who had sponsored the Arabs for work permits. Italian radicalism lives, I suppose.
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There’s something very odd about this: ‘Cruel’ mouse music study blasted. Several of the mice involved in a Cambridge University study of the effects of amphetamines and loud music suffered brain damage and died, it seems, resulting in outrage from activists and disciplinary action by the Home Office.
How long will it be before … More ...
In the current Telos Paul Gottfried has a “Reply to James Kalb” (not on line) in which he discusses several pieces about liberalism I’ve had in Modern Age and Telos itself. Here’s a draft reply to his reply. If anyone’s interested enough to read and comment it would be much appreciated. I think the piece … More ...
An interesting article on press coverage of partial-birth abortion: Abortion: partial truths. There’s a ferocious national debate, the factual claims of the two sides are radically opposed, and it takes fifteen months for anybody in the mainstream press to call a local clinic and try to find out what’s going on.
What’s behind this … More ...
One year to the day after the attacks the Justice Department gets on the case, fingerprinting and photographing high-risk visitors. The security system will target nationals of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Syria. Makes sense—fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudis, so it would be grossly simple-minded to check them out. And Shiite non-Arab … More ...
More signs that everyone’s got to get on board with “human rights”: Activists win in fight to get human rights cases tried in U.S. and Corporate responsibility and human rights: A fact sheet. The practical result of the principle that everyone in the world can force anyone in the world to comply with human … More ...
I’m OK you’re OK as theology: Catholics reject evangelization of Jews. According to the journalist at the Boston Glob, who plainly has some axes to grind, “the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops declared unequivocally that the biblical covenant between Jews and God is valid and therefore Jews do not need to be … More ...