Showing posts with label Individualism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Individualism. Show all posts
Thursday, February 18, 2021

In Frigid Texas, Desperate Families Take Risks to Stay Warm

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Very, very dangerous risks, as it turns out. At WSJ, " Parents resort to gas stoves or build fires inside their homes during power outa...
Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Ray Allen Billington, America's Frontier Heritage

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*BUMPED.* I picked up a copy, to continue my study of the American frontier and the Native American experience. At Amazon, Ray Allen Bil...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Education Gap Between Rich and Poor Is Growing Wider

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But what about all that hopey-changey stuff? At the New York Times : The wounds of segregation were still raw in the 1970s. With only ra...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Woman Earns Several Job Offers After Handing Out Her Resume on the Street

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This is great. American individualism at work. At People, " Buffalo Woman Hands Out Résumés on Street, Earns Over a Dozen Offers .&...
Monday, March 2, 2015

Why Do Leftists Hate Asian-Americans?

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Well, I posted on this last week or so, " Leftist Racial Bias Against Asian-Americans in College Admissions ." And now here come...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Leftist Racial Bias Against Asian-Americans in College Admissions

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At LAT, " For Asian Americans, a changing landscape on college admissions ": In a windowless classroom at an Arcadia tutoring ce...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Free People, Free Markets

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I love the Journal, but as I always say, they're a little loose with their open-borders advocacy. At the Wall Street Journal, " T...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Reading Books Is Fundamental

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From black leftist Charles Blow, at the New York Times : The first thing I can remember buying for myself, aside from candy, of course, wa...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Google Hegemony

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At the New York Times, " Google's Road Map to Global Domination ": Fifty-five miles and three days down the Colorado River f...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

'I think anybody who believes that we are in a period of decline or stagnation probably hasn’t been paying attention...'

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That's Sebastian Thrun, Google's top research scientist, at Foreign Affairs, " Google's Original X-Man: A Conversation With...
Monday, June 24, 2013

Supreme Court Punts in Fisher v. University of Texas

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Recent analyses of the Court have stressed Chief Justice John Roberts' efforts to position the Court as a restrained judicial institutio...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

'Why I Got My CCW Permit and Why You Should Too'

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This is an essay from Mr. Mac at the Survivalist : Over the last few months I have given it quite a bit of thought. Am I really that conce...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Marxist Melissa Harris-Perry Strikes Again!

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At Weasel Zippers, " MSNBC Marxist Melissa Harris-Perry: “We Need To Impinge On Individual Freedoms” For “The Common Good”… "
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Walter Russell Mead on Joseph Stiglitz and Higher Education Reform

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I mentioned Joseph Stiglitz's recent NYT commentary at my essay  the other day on fatherhood at the Jordan Downs housing project. Well...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

Jordan Downs' Project Fatherhood

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When I read Joseph Stiglitz's piece at the New York Times, " Equal Opportunity, Our National Myth ," I thought, "Okay, I ...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Life of Emily

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From Dan Mitchell, " You’ve Met Julia the Moocher, Now Meet Emily ." (Via Instapundit .) Added: There's now a Memeorandu...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Why Progressivism Should Scare the **** Out of You

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Both my wife and I attended public schools, and our children attend public schools. Home schooling isn't really an option for us --- but...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Oops! MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Spews Hatred of American Exceptionalism: Racist Attack Blogger Walter James Casper III Caught Lying Again!

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Newsbusters has the story, " Rachel Maddow Sniffs in Disdain at Belief in America as 'Shining' City on a Hill ." I...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

The Collapse of the Work Ethic Among Young Americans?

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I've never studied the data, so this seems a little incredible to me, but with so much youth support for Occupy Wall Street, I'm sur...
Sunday, December 4, 2011

Who Killed Horatio Alger?

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From Luigi Zingales, at City Journal : The title character of Horatio Alger’s 1867 novel Ragged Dick is an illiterate New York bootblack wh...
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