This was forwarded to me by a friend, who picked it up anonymously, but I think it might become a classic—INEPTOCRACY (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy), a new word to describe a totally dysfunctional political system, much as we have now, defined as follows: “A system of government in which the least capable to lead are elected by the […]
Archives for March 2012
An Obama Turn on Iran?
The media watchdogs are twittering with commentary about President Obama’s new hawkish turn of rhetoric on the Iranian nuclear weapons issue. Is this for real? With him, how can we ever know? You can be assured of one thing–Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is dead serious when he says “I will never let my people live […]
When Saving the Animals is Not Enough
Many of you probably watched the recent CBS 60 Minutes segment on the Texas ranchers who have saved a number of species of African exotic wildlife by bringing them to Texas and providing incentives for their propagation by marketing their harvest as hunting trophies. The populations have now reached the extent of over a quarter […]
Fool Me Three Times?
There is an old saying: fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Well, what happens the third time? That’s where we are with North Korea. In fact, they have now fooled three U. S. administrations, dating back to the Agreed Framework of 1994 negotiated by Jimmy Carter for Bill Clinton. […]
UT Back in Court on Affirmative Action
It appears that my alma mater will be on the leading edge of what could be a watershed decision by the Supreme Court on affirmative action in the use of race-based criteria in college admissions. They have been there before–in breakthrough segregation cases like Sweatt vs. Painter and the previous affirmative action case of Hopwood […]
James Q. Wilson, RIP
Wilson was a favorite essayist and political and social scientist, and his book, The Moral Sense, was an important one for me. In it, he identifies our moral sense, what some have described as “written on the heart”, as a fact of human nature, the primary enemy of moral relativism, and an essence that statist […]
Rope Some Dopes
How do you turn “Obama’s Huge Blunder” (see the February issue) into a political win and paint the inept Republicans into a tight corner? Answer: you set a trap that they cannot avoid by converting a major issue involving the first amendment right to the free exercise of religion and the long-established freedom of conscience […]