Lately there as been a lot of concern about the increasingly visible decline of the west, notably Peter Thiel on “The End of the Futureâ€:
Author: Jim
Short summary of “Fast and Furiousâ€
Many blogs have covered all this for a long time, in great depth, among them Human Events. I am not going to do so, but I need to mention such an important event, if only for my own records:
The Great Recession
Pinker on violence
Pinker argues that there has over time, been a great decline in violence, mistaking progressivism for progress. “The better angels of our natureâ€
Herman Cain wrote his own book
Often when a politician campaigns for an important post, he promotes a book about his life. And almost always that book is ghost written. I compared the partial transcripts of his interview with O’Donnell, with an extract from the book discussed by O’Donnell. They are similar in style. Likely the book was edited by a …
Progressives are not commies.
Commies propose the government run everything by a central plan. Progressives propose the government run everything with no plan at all. Commies believe that underdevelopment is a sin committed by wealthy capitalists against poor people, and propose to fix this by commanding stuff to be developed. Progressives believe that development is a sin committed by …
US dollar rises, because Euro smells even worse
The value of the US dollar has risen, as valued by gold and by the fiat currencies of countries that are relatively solvent. The apparent cause of this is not that there has been any improvement in the prospects for the US dollar, but that a chaotic dissolution of the Euro zone looks likely, so …
Repression
A conservative blog by an anonymous right wing academic announced that it had been suppressed, shortly after he was outed. And then, predictably, the announcement of censorship was itself censored.
Herman Cain: Not the affirmative action candidate
Because Herman Cain has black accent, and tends to use simple sentences to express himself, while Barack Hussein Obama has a ruling class accent, I initially got the impression that Obama was smarter. I should have known better. Herman Cain will answer tricky questions extempore. No teleprompter for him. Who then is smarter?  He has …
Andrew Bolt convicted of heresy and impiety
Andrew Bolt was convicted for impugning various people by accusing them of being white, merely because they and their parents on both sides were physically and culturally white. This (calling people white) has been declared to be a racist insult. Having created special privileges for black people, many of our ruling elite naturally declared themselves …