Tuesday, January 21, 2003
“It is the time of year when people are casting about for good books to read to resolve the current perplexity. If you are sitting in Washington, there are few guides to the unique position of the US, whose military expenditure exceeds that of the next 14 countries combined.
The most frequently cited historical parallels, Britain [...]
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
“Director Martin Scorseseís violent tale of gang warfare in nineteenth-century New York ignores the dramatic transformation of the cityís Irish underclass into mainstream citizens.”
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
Heather MacDonald on Homlessness in New York and Slave reparations in the latest City Journal.
Her new book, “Are cops racist?” has just been published and I have it on order from Amazon.He is an exerpt from the Amazon.com review:
The forces of opposition to “racial profiling” threaten to obliterate the crime-fighting gains of the last [...]
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
“For the conservative temperament the future is the past. Hence, like the past, it is knowable and lovable. It follows that by studying the past of America — its traditions of enterprise, risk-taking, fortitude, piety and responsible citizenship — you can derive the best case for its future: a future in which the national loyalty [...]
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
Here is a sample from the first few “pages”:
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like. Witless will serve his brother.
Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect, are the qualities which make a real gentleman
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
The only freedom I care about is the freedom [...]
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
“If a movement proposes to overthrow a certain order of things and construct a new one in its place, then the following principles must be clearly understood and must dominate in the ranks of its leadership:
Every movement which has gained its human material must first divide this material into two groups: namely, followers and members.
It [...]
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
“But still the second bomb didn’t fall. Another quarter of a minute or so, and I raised my head again. Some of the people were still rushing about, others were standing as if they’d been glued to the ground. From somewhere behind the houses a huge haze of dust had risen up, [...]
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
The massacre of eight men at a Cape Town gay massage parlour early on Monday has been met with outrage from politicians, sex workers and gay rights activists.
The eight men were shot dead execution-style in a bloody massacre at a Sea Point, Cape Town, gay massage parlour early on Monday.
The victims were all found with [...]