Featured Commentary
“Maybe most people don’t realize why they love Johnny Cash. I don’t think we should worry about it too much. We don’t need to ask what Johnny’s songs mean, or why they call to us like they do. The intellect may strip away lyrics and melodies, in search of ‘why’, but that is a fool’s quest. The only meaning that matters is embedded in the music itself, in the trademark boom/chick/boom rhythm that beats like the Mother Heart we hear in the womb. To appreciate this, we need, thank God, no intellect. Just a soul.”
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JOHNNY CASH: FADE TO BLACK
BUSH: THE GREAT LIBERATOR
“The people of Afghanistan and Iraq, because of George W. Bush, have for the first time a real choice. The way to democracy and modernity has been opened for them, if they want it. Now, that is not everything. But it is not nothing.
To be sure, a choice is not a guarantee. Others who have had similar opportunities have chosen to backslide into autocracy or terror (see: Russia, Gaza). But for now, the people of Iraq and Afghanistan have taken their first tentative steps toward joining the modern world.”
MELTDOWN OF THE ‘CLIMATE CONSENSUS’
“The warming "scientific" community, the Climategate emails reveal, is a tight clique of like-minded scientists and bureaucrats who give each other jobs, publish each other's papers -- and conspire to shut out any point of view that threatens to derail their gravy train. Such behavior is perhaps to be expected from politicians and government functionaries. From scientists, it's a travesty.
In the end, grievous harm will have been done not just to individual scientists' reputations, but to the once-sterling reputation of science itself. For that, we will all suffer.”
“At the dawn of the second decade of the 21st century, however, the edifice of Western civilization teeters precariously on shaken foundations. The symptoms of cultural decay — plunging birth rates, empty churches, economic instability — rage like an untreated fever. Once-conquered peoples of the Far East are now our creditors. The colonization of space has been abandoned. The global financial system created and underwritten by the West now appears a fragile ecosystem that few can understand and fewer can predict; the prosperity it once seemed to guarantee now appears frighteningly evanescent.”
THE SLOW SUICIDE OF THE WEST
“Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job?”
Obama: The Affirmative Action President
THE BATTLE FOR WISCONSIN
“Unions started by blackmailing and bankrupting small businesses, before moving on to large corporations and then state governments.
Some governor’s are at last moving aggressively to break the power of these economic plunderers – we can only hope it is not too late.”