Feminism has pretended that when women become equal and independent partners, when they have comparable career success, then men will love them more truly. Unfortunately, feminists failed to recognize that most people, to say nothing of men, do not want to marry themselves…. read the rest @
Americans want to believe that all four of their goals work together: that defending their security, promoting their prosperity, preserving their freedom and equality and fulfilling their world mission are all part of an integrated package and world view — and that the commonsense reasoning of the average American can understand the way the pieces fit together. They are, in other words, looking for more than a set of unrelated policies that accomplish their goals: they want those policies to proceed from some kind of integrated and accessible world view that meshes with their understanding of traditional American values and concerns. They want an ideology that links the policies of the present day to the national story and the national civic religion.
Whether we are analyzing why blue liberalism doesn’t work anymore or trying to think about what kind of political synthesis could replace it, we should do something obvious and ask ourselves what it is that Americans want.
John Kerry is a dipshit on a par with, possibly exceeding, Al Gore’s dipshittiness.
He has been a clear and present danger to the United States from pretty much the day he was born. Let’s review.
1. Every tinhorn dictator in the world has nukes. Delivery systems are for sale cheap by the Sung Il family,
2. The Soviet Union (Putin and Mededev ) have played Obama for the fool in every dealing he’s had with them, just as the Russians have every Democrat president since FDR. This is different?
3. Did I mention this is John Kerry’s initiative?
That’s it. All anyone needs to know. Democrats-Obama-Kerry-Russia. Run for the freaking hills. (via Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello)
China will continue free-riding as long as possible, fixing a “broken window” here and there but not feeling responsible for any nation’s or region’s stability. Rule of thumb: If China calls for an “international solution,” it doesn’t give a damn about the situation, because when Beijing does give a damn, it’ll aggressively work the diplomacy on a bilateral basis — all the better to make its cash have maximum impact. An excellent example is Sudan, which, if it splits in two this year, may lapse back into civil war. America, with its new Africa Command, will feel itself on the hook and respond in some multilateral manner (with UN and African Union peacekeepers). But China? Bet on Beijing to play both sides against the middle: importing oil from both north and south and transferring arms as required.
TECH WARS: AC vs DC IN A BATTLE TO THE DEATH!
Many Republican—and especially conservative—voters have had tons of experience with disappointment with Republicans in Congress. My guess is that in the next session, even with the Republicans more in control, there’ll be plenty more of that to come.
—neo-neocon » Why has the lame duck session “produced” so much?
College: Creating debt-ridden idiots
America’s student debt at the end of 2010 is nearly $880 billion. That number is growing by more than $2,800 dollars per second.
But most students, like Kaylee Kuipers, don’t dwell on the numbers.
“I don’t really know how much (debt) I have,” she said. “My mom handles a lot of it for me. … I just feel like I’m in the career field that I love, so it’ll somehow work out.”
Kaylee is a junior, also at Calvin, where she recently switched her major to international development after a trip to Africa left her with a keen interest in travel.
“We went around and we visited a bunch of different tribes and villages and just learned about what they were doing for development,” she said. “We got to do some fun things, like a safari. And we just, like, studied the land.”
(via Student loans leave crushing debt burden - Business - CNBC TV - msnbc.com
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AMERICAN CONSERVATISM began decades ago as a movement of ideas and, notwithstanding its current popular appeal, has managed to maintain its original character. Thus David Brooks has observed that conservatives differ from other political sets in their apparent preoccupation with books, ideas and a handful of influential authors. One rarely hears of liberal groups discussing major works written by the intellectual architects of the welfare state, such as John Dewey, Herbert Croly or John Rawls, or sponsoring programs in honor of leading figures like John Maynard Keynes or John Kenneth Galbraith.
I am now a bit confused about the stated reasons of our progressive left of why they oppose Wal-Mart. After all, leftoids like to educate us that selling food and other necessities to ordinary people for low prices is bad when Wal-Mart does it. But when Hugo Chavez does the exact same thing, except that he also wields the power of the gun to force those capitalist pig farmers and factory owners to give up their products for even less, this suddenly becomes praiseworthy! I
—The Fourth Checkraise: Fair prices would allow everyone to have everything
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The evangelical atheists like Richard Dawkins give the game away by the strident self-righteousness, proselytizing fervor, impatience with dissenting “infidels,” and metaphysical sleight-of-hand typical of the fundamentalist. They are devotees of the religion of materialist determinism, a faith predicated on the revealed metaphysical “truth” that all reality is material, and spiritual reality is a delusion, a left-over tribal or evolutionary adaptation that, like a vestigial organ, no longer serves any constructive purpose, and more often is the site of dangerous diseases in the body politic. (via Bruce Thornton: Wars of Religion | RIGHTNETWORK
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