Posts tagged 'progressives'

Higher Education Next Bubble to Burst?

by SteveK @ Tuesday, September 7th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Economics, Education

We can only hope. But that would only represent half of what’s needed to restore some semblance of respectability to the education industry.
Roger Kimball ponders the outrageous cost of higher education these days, which seems to have an inverse relationship with the quality of education received. Four years at a top school will cost upwards [...]

Media Downplays Discovery Channel Gunman and Environmental Extremist

by SteveK @ Saturday, September 4th, 2010. Tags: , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Environment

James Lee, the eco-extremist at Discovery Channel’s Maryland headquarters, was armed with guns and several bombs at the Silver Springs facility where he took three hostages. Turns out he was “awakened” by Al Gore’s grand work of fiction “An Inconvenient Truth.” This story ironically emerges as the establishment media constantly warns of alleged ‘right-wing’ violence. [...]

Obama Administration Asks U.N. Human Rights Commission to Review Arizona Law

by SteveK @ Tuesday, August 31st, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Government, Legal

As if the Obama administration’s lawsuit against the state of Arizona wasn’t outrageous enough, now Arizonans are learning that the State Department under Hillary Clinton has referenced the Arizona illegal-immigration law to the scandal-ridden U.N. Human Rights Commission (HRC).
“The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the [...]

Roots of Progressive Theories: Government versus Individual

by SteveK @ Tuesday, August 24th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Economics, Government, History

The following excerpt is from an article titled The Progressives’ Legacy of Bankruptcy by Tiffany Miller. The full article starts out by describing the failed economic policies of progressives, but eventually gets to the foundations of modern liberal thought concerning the role of government. The dominant theme being that individual self-sacrifice for the state will [...]

Friday Funny - Rorschach Test

by SteveK @ Friday, August 20th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Humor

Insult to Injury: President Obama Strongly Supports Building of Ground Zero Mosque

by SteveK @ Saturday, August 14th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Government, History, Middle East, National Security, Religion

President Obama finally decided to take a position on the Ground Zero Mosque, and as expected, he sided against America. Speaking at a White House dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, the president strongly approved of building a mosque near ground zero claiming the country’s founding principles demanded it. But I can find [...]

Democrats Propose Government Planned Communities

by SteveK @ Wednesday, August 11th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Economics, Environment, Family, Government

The so-called Livable Communities Act is top-down central planning scheme designed to change where we live and work, and how we travel. Bureaucrats in the Environmental Protection Agency, Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Transportation will oversee this Soviet-style social engineering.
It’s worrisome to witness the growing historical parallels between today’s Democratic Party and [...]

CBS Evening News Decries Lack of “Diversity” in FDNY

by SteveK @ Tuesday, August 10th, 2010. Tags: , , , , ,
Filed under Media

On last Monday’s CBS Evening News, Katie Couric lamented the New York City Fire Department’s lack of “diversity.” She reported how “…a federal judge says something is missing in their ranks: Diversity.” Jim Axelrod noted: “Fire Captain Paul Washington has a big problem with his department.” Washington declared the FDNY to be “all-white, lily white.” [...]

Shirley Sherrod Should Drop Case Against Breitbart

by SteveK @ Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Government, Media

Shirley Sherrod plans to sue Andrew Breitbart over the excerpted videotape showing Sherrod expressing racist sentiments. The general narrative goes something like this: Sherrod is this innocent, non-racist woman who was unfairly depicted as a bigot by the ‘right-wing attack machine’, and very temporarily lost her job. Now it seems the video’s impression might be [...]

Friday Funny - Racism: the All Purpose Excuse

by SteveK @ Friday, July 23rd, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Humor

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