Our military has always led the way in the desegregation of our society. It is, in many ways, the most meritocratic of our national institutions. It should be a fundamental right of Americans to help defend their nation by service in the armed forces, if they are physically capable. ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is fundamentally … Read more
A really well done short video on the dangers of modern surveillance technology:
Link: Napolitano says she does not support immediate Iraq pullout. And she’s simply wrong, but I think I understand why she’s taken this position. She may not ready to oppose the war, over which she has no actual political control, because she judges the costs of doing so (which could be considerable) to not be … Read more
I’ve reshuffled things to make the blog a bit leaner, faster to load, and to eliminate seldom used features. I find that people seldom use blog archives, so I shuffled it off to a separate page accessible through a big fat icon. I don’t think people use the static categories as often as they might, … Read more
I stumbled across a copy of The American Scholar for Winter 2007 and found myself quite engrossed in the following article, so I thought to share it with all of you. I was impressed by the brevity and simplicity of the author’s cri du coeur for traditional conservative values, most of which we progressives share … Read more