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Dissent is now a vast right wing conspiracy it would seem. Obama, following in the footsteps of Saul Alinsky, had his first job as a "community organizer," arranging for groups of the electorate to make their voices heard in the halls of politics. Thus, as Krauthammer has repeatedly voiced on Fox News of late, it is the height of hypocrisy for the Obama administration to attack protestors of their plans, demonizing them for having the gall to speak out.
Showing posts with label dissent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dissent. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Dissent - No Longer The Highest Form Of Patriotism
Monday, August 18, 2008
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Interesting News from Around the Web
An interview with U. Mass and campus free speech advocate, Prof. Daphne Patai. "It’s shocking, of course, that at universities – places ostensibly committed to the free exchange of ideas – the loudest voices are precisely of those who would shut down others’ speech."
Is it just me who thinks that turning heavily to ethanol is both useless and, for much of the world, a disaster in terms of rising food prices. The Economist memorializes the ethanol boondogle: "In early September the world price of wheat rose to over $400 a tonne, the highest ever recorded. . . ." More on this at Q&O.
Everyone can breathe a sigh of relief. NIE author Thomas Fingar tells us that as a result of his report, "the world has become a much safer place virtually overnight, no matter what the Iranian president says about wiping Israel from the map, bringing down the Great Satan America and ushering in the apocalyptic age of the 12th Imam."
Moqtada al-Sadr is, in the byzantine world of Iraq politics and Iranian influence, a chameleon. Right Truth documents Sadr’s efforts to clean the Iranian special groups from his "Mahdi Army" with the apparent eye on becoming a populist politician with a role in the current government.
Is it getting time to dust off the Monroe Doctrine?
The problem of open borders for EU citizens is becoming very much in issue in Italy, Britain and elsewhere even as the member countries prepare, in but a week, to relinquish their sovereignty and become states within an EU federal superstructure.
The cause of the impasse in Congress is . . . Jackassery! What a perfectly descriptive term for the Democrats and their ham handed legislative efforts.
Islamic terrorism by the comparative numbers . . . and the comparisons are a bit surprising at the Gathering Storm.
There’s a reason for this double standard: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates informed attendees at an international security conference Saturday that Israel’s alleged nuclear capabilities are not a threat to the Middle East, but emphasized that nuclear energy in Iranian hands would be a threat to the world.
Republicans, led by Senator Jon Ensign, are pushing for a bipartisan panel to review the NIE just released on Iran’s nuclear weapons. As I blogged at great length here, there are gaping holes in that report that need to be addressed. Let us hope for the sake of . . . well the entire free world, really, that Senator Ensign succeeds.
A Jordanian legislator has called for violence against a Catholic charitable organization, the Order of Malta, for their role in the Crusades. If one person is killed over this idiocy, this is one man who should be hauled before an International criminal tribunal.
Daniel Pipes considers whether the AKP poses a serious threat to Turkey’s secular tradition and whether Turkey should be considered for entry into the EU. Yes and no.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Interesting News From Around the Web
Brazil discovers huge oil reserves off its coast. Good. Brazil says OPEC needs to bring down the price per barrel of oil. Great.
The UN claims that “the world’s scientists have spoken, clearly and in one voice” with the release of the IPCC report claiming that humans are destroying the world through global warming. It would be nice if that "one voice" could get the facts right, at least in the first paragraph of its report. As to this one voice claim . . .
A use of the police force to crush dissent . . . by Democrats in Oklahoma. There is no force in America more committed to the stifling of free speech then the neo-liberals that make up today's Democratic Party.
George Will takes a look at some of the reprehensible company John Edwards keeps and tells us why lawyers such as Milberg Weiss give the legal profession a horrible image.
What a great juxtaposition. Gateway Pundit tallies the numbers from al Jazeera and another source to show just how successful the surge has been in Iraq: "violence in Iraq is down by 50%; civilian casualties in Iraq are down by 60%; Baghdad casualties are down by 75%; Basra violence is down by 90%; [and] terrorist attacks in Iraq are down by 80%." Compare that with the Washington Post, which has been running a near news blackout on good news from Iraq over the past several months, only to tell us today that President Bush is regaining his bearings - and they can't seem to grasp why. As WaPo puts it in their page 1 article: "In many ways, [President Bush's] shifting political fortunes may owe as much to the absence of bad news as to any particular good news."
Actually, the WaPo did include a bit of the good news out of Iraq today . . . on page A14. "U.S. officials on Sunday declared a 55 percent drop in attacks since the launch of an offensive nine months ago . . ." They also note that bombs across Iraq killed at least 20 people, highlighting the country's continuing security threats. Al Qadea is in tatters, but it still has a bite. Intelligence from the community led to a find of 20 vehicles rigged for suicide bombs just last week.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Bow Your Heads and Let Us Regulate
Read the article here. There is no time for verifying the science or for hearing the dissent. There is no cost benefit analysis to be had. The UN organization that won the Peace Prize (does that have anything to do with science?) has just issued the next encyclical. Bow your heads and let us regulate.
Several years ago, Michael Crichton, in an insightful essay, stated that environmentalism had become a religion, and like any religion, operates on dogma and faith rather than on science. His words were prophetic indeed, and the growth of the global warming issue has since become the central tenet of faith. There are many who challenge that faith, some of whose work can be found here.
But such is religion that any dissent is heresy. Thus we have the faith's High Priest, Al Gore, demanding that any dissenting opinion be silenced and denied access to the public. Then only a few days ago, one UN official ominously called the questioning of global warming "criminally irresponsible."
The religion of global warming has been seized upon by the socialist left in Europe in particular. They jettisoned Christianity generations ago, and have since found their raison d'etre in environmentalism and global warming. And the EU is the world's greatest experiment in socialism. Lacking any checks and balances and with only a patina of democracy, the EU has fully embraced environmentalism and global warming, using it to justify the centralization of power and the issuance of a tsunami of regulation - for that is what the left does best, regulate and control. For example, see here, here, here and here. No thought is given to using the free market to promote environmentalism, as for all their moral posing, the left ultimately is using their new religion to achieve power.
And in this they are aided by a like motivated UN that has just upped the ante a little more today: Climate change is "severe and so sweeping that only urgent, global action" can head it off, a United Nations scientific panel said in a report on global warming issued Saturday.
The report produced by the Nobel prize-winning panel warns of the devastating impact for developing countries and the threat of species extinction posed by the climate crisis.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, presenting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in Valencia, Spain, warned that some of the effects of rising levels of greenhouse gases may already be irreversible.
The U.N. head said the situation was already "so severe and so sweeping that only urgent, global action" could head off the crisis.
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