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Business as usual: more fraud in the EU, Gideon’s bibles to be expelled from Calgary hospitals to avoid discrimination, and roast pig forbidden in Bath, England because Muslims and animal rights types wouldn’t approve.

The culture of therapy calls for some explanation, and there’s a new book out in England that claims it’s the natural consequence of the collapse of the Left. The Left claimed that everyone could get what he wants through social engineering. That turned out to be impossible, so a whole industry has grown up … More ...

The Queen of England has decided she needs to investigate the stuff Tony Blair’s been telling her about the proposed EU constitution: Queen raises fears over EU constitution. It seems she’s concerned about the effect of Article 10, which gives EU law primacy over the law of member states, on her position as sovereign. … More ...

I’m not impressed by the argument that America is good because it’s free, equal, democratic and prosperous, or because a lot of people from all over the world want to move here. There are good things to be said about America on those grounds, but they can also be said about other Western countries, and … More ...

For another example of what looks like a gathering counterattack against technocracy by actual scientists, see Understanding the Derrida virus by the physicist, mathematician, and architectural theorist Nikos Salingaros. (I’m in the acknowledgements, which rightly suggests that I have a great deal of sympathy for what Professor Salingaros has to say.)

A summary of recent research, Hardwired to Connect, shows that even if you put all this stuff about traditional morality and spiritual values to one side, and just look at biochemistry, children still need something very like the authority of family and local religious institutions. It’s useful to keep these things in your back … More ...

I can remember when the L.A. Times and Chicago Tribune were conservative papers. Nowadays there’s no such thing in the mainstream press, they’re all much too professionalized to be anything but left/liberal, so the two have become operatives for the Democratic Party and the pro-abortion movement just like everyone else. So it’s no big surprise … More ...

A straw in the wind: Google accepts ads for pornography but not legal firearms. They do have standards, you know.

The Google semi-monopoly, like the Microsoft semi-monopoly, does make me a little nervous. The main reason I moved my website from counterrevolution.net to jkalb.freeshell.org was that Google simply would not index more than one … More ...

Pat Buchanan asks a good question: Why do intelligent people believe armed citizens are less safe than unarmed ones? When the question is put that way, it does seem to defy common sense. What’s so bad about the ability to defend yourself?

There’s a lot to be said for Buchanan’s answer, that the media … More ...

Romano Prodi, the president of the European Commission, wants to further grease the slippery slope to a European superstate: National veto on EU changes must go. It should be obvious that to the extent EU governing structures emancipate themselves from control by member states the elites that dominate them will become answerable to … More ...