A couple of articles and some Presidential Primary coverage (thanks to townhall.com)
Michael Brito at Urban Conservative on the Democrats’ flip-flopping and pessimism.
Joe O’Connell at The Conservative Voice on how liberals blame soldiers for terrorism.
Giuliani’s motivation (AP News).
Romney takes aim at McCain (AP News).
Santa Claus is Conservative!
Merry Christmas all! I’m taking a break for tomorrow, but I’ll be back on Dec. 26.
Recently, Drexel University hosted the democratic children candidates for a debate.
As most of our readers know, all the authors in this blog are either students or staff at Drexel.
Anyway, to the point. About an hour ago, I ran into co-author Nate Fox in the hall and asked him if he saw the debate. The conversation went like this.
Carlos: Did you watch?
Nate: No
C: You didn’t miss much. All they did was bash on Hillary
N: Nothing new there, just another day that ends in ‘y’
Indeed…
I can’t read my colleague’s article, “To Hell with the Cells” and let it go without writing a response. My colleague is the type of person who grew up in a small town where everyone knows your name and where times are much simpler. While, I want to emphasize that I am not diminishing that style of living, in today’s modern world, it is impractical and almost impossible to be technologically impaired.
Yes, technology certainly has its downfalls. I no longer write contemplative, hand-written notes to old friends. Instead, I type quick 5 second emails on their Facebook profiles saying, “What are you up to? It’s been so long!” Also, because I am in constant communication with my husband throughout the workday with email and text messages, the excitement that “Honey, I’m home!” used to bring is non-existent. And yes, I too, get frustrated when the work-addicted business man has his cell phone glued to his ear while I am trying to relax on my train ride home or in a once-tranquil café. Mr. Connolly, I understand your frustration and contempt for modern technology.
However, you fail to look at all the benefits that technology brings. I am able to keep in touch with old friends on a daily basis, instead of once a year with hand-written notes. I can tell my husband that I missed my train when I am running late, instead of him arriving at the train station and not knowing why I am missing. I can call home and ask if we have milk, instead of coming home and finding that we have none, and then be forced to go to the store again. More than the daily conveniences, there are substantial benefits to our modern technology. For example, I can video conference with my parents who are 2,000 miles away, I can sign a form for my attorney and return it in less than 2 minutes with my fax machine, and I can drive more safely with my “hands-free” Bluetooth cell phone. Certainly, there is nothing wrong with the technological benefits that I just described.
The key, Mr. Connolly, is finding a good balance. We must learn to put away our Blackberry when we are eating dinner with our family. We must put restrictions on the amount of X-Box360 our children can play and instead, get them involved with sports. Or, we can even restrict ourselves to “basic cable” (like my parents choose to do) so that our children aren’t channel surfing the hundreds of channels available on the television for hours on end.
Yes, the moral fiber our country has been degrading rapidly over the years, but, blaming technology is not the answer. It is up to the parents of our country to fight against the slipping morals and teach our children what is right and wrong. Not, what is right or wrong according to the world’s standards, but what is right and wrong according to the family’s standards. I was always told by my parents, “we live in the world, but are not of the world. If we remember what is important, and keep our technology in balance with other key aspects of our lives, we should turn out all right.
Every so often, abortion groups hand out wire hangers in a form of awareness protest for their cause.
Gay groups remain silent for a day.
Animal Rights groups have their “meat out” days.
They are generally praised for their “creative” and “thought provoking” methods of raising awareness for their cause.
I wonder how the main-stream media feels about these guys.
Yeah, that’s right. Students in Penn State, Miami University of Ohio, Seattle Pacific University and other schools wore empty holsters to school all week to protest campus policies that outright ignore state law and prohibit the carrying of concealed weapons.
The campaign, run by Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, lasted all week, and was intended to bring awareness to policies that prevent students from being armed and able to defend themselves on campus. These students argue that one armed student or professor could have stopped the Virginia Tech massacre last April.
What did the morons at the Brady Campaign say to this?
“You don’t like the fact that you can’t have a gun on your college campus? Drop out of school”
No one should be forced to choose between civil rights and education, but I digress.
Even if the main-stream media does not praise these students for bravely standing up for the bill of rights (nothing like using the first amendment to defend the second), we do. Good job, guys! Keep up the fight!
This is the type of article that gets nominees in trouble. This is the type of article that parents, students, liberals, girlfriends and politicians will go no where near. It raises the type of question you don’t want asked in time of war.
Should we bring back compulsory military service?
Why on earth would I ask that question?
Simple. We’re at a point in history where laziness is rewarded. Really. Indigent kids drop out of school and join gangs. Rich kids graduate high school and spend 4, 5, 6 or 9 years in college “fratting” out and then get a cushy job in daddy’s company. Not to say that there aren’t young people out there who do bust their necks in high school and college, and later become a contributing member of society, but they’re a dying breed.
To not make this drawn out and pointless, I’ll get to the gist of it. My proposal is this: Every person between the ages of 18 and 21 will be required to spend two years active duty in either the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard or National Public Health Corps. They will have the option of going before college as enlisted personnel, or after college as an officer. For those with an aversion to Military service, they will be required to spend two years after college teaching in a Public School, full time.
What effect will this have? Ideally, it would ensure that virtually an entire generation of people are trained in marketable skills. Not all military personnel are fighters, there are electricians, mechanics, engineers, medics, clerks, bookkeepers, communication specialists, photographers, reporters, chaplains, law clerks, and others. If they opt to not enter the military until after college, they will serve with their generation as officers and leaders, also gaining marketable skills that most employers salivate over. Finally, I don’t think I need to explain the benefit of having a throng of trained, young public school teachers enter the workforce.
This proposal, while provocative, and maybe even initially repugnant, is, I think, sound. It would require a generation that has been spoiled by the media into being lazy (a generation that, sadly, includes me) to get off their butts, stop bitching, and get something done. Chances are, it might even reduce crime, increase the high school graduation rate, and possibly even create an incentive for kids who otherwise wouldn’t try to get a better education.
This is probably not a solution, but its a good place to start looking.
Open Carry in Utah gets a spot in the news.
Coles County, IL, stands up to Chicago and for the Second Amendment.
Kansas statistics on their brand new Concealed Weapons Permits
Colorado Permits on the rise
Vermont town board attempts to slap the Second Amendment in the face
This Professor at a Utah University teaches the safe and effective way to carry a concealed weapon.
The most surprising part is CNN’s willingness to positively report on this. Not surprisingly, they found two students who would feel “uncomfortable” with someone carrying a weapon around them, all I say to those students is: The view is great from the cheap seats.
Just in the past 12 hours, there have been four separate blows to far-left liberal lies. Michael Moore, Al Gore, the “America doesn’t run the world” progressive camp, and the public education crusade camp have all been exposed. Check out the stories below…
Michael Moore’s not-so-hot at the box office film “Sicko” made an overabundance of absurd allegations about international health standards. One of them was so impudent, it went on to propose that Cuba’s healthcare system was superior to the United State’s healthcare system. Americans are no dummies, and Moore’s measly $15 million in three weeks at the box office shows how much patience America has for propaganda and lies. The far-left progressives however love them – it is their bible and their truth. Perhaps the hidden video from Cuban hospitals leaked to Fox News will give them a better sense of what the hospitals in Cuba are really like. I have not been able to find it on the web yet, but limited portions of the video were played last night on Hannity and Colmes, and my bet is CNN will also air this video as well, portraying the true horror of Cuban hospitals, assuming Dr. Sanjay Gupta and CNN are not still traumatized by their spat with Michael Moore. Once it is posted on the web, I will provide a link.
Al Gore is a pretty popular guy, depending on which side of the “war on reason” you occupy. But if you are a soldier of true reason, and not a terrorist of “Goreason,” which is equivalent to reason by truth of propaganda, you might be pretty upset to hear about Judge Burton’s recent ruling that “An Inconvenient Truth” is “politically partisan and not an impartial analysis of the science of climate change.” The judge went further to say that it could only be shown in secondary schools if “was accompanied by new guidance notes for teachers to balance Gore’s ‘one-sided’ views.” CNN or MSNBC have decided not to publish this yet, but Fox has an article on it here. For the record this was a UK judge, but that shouldn’t matter, since the UK is always right, and America is always wrong.
My best guess is that John Cloud, columnist from Time magazine, might be job hunting in response to his recent exposure of the “hoax” pulled by the Center on Education Policy, an advocacy group who produced a study that allegedly proved that private schools are no better than public schools, but merely have students “who would have done just as well anywhere.” Being a product of public school myself, I can surely vouch that government schooling is no match to private schooling, and apparently Time magazine agrees. It’s not often, but every now and then Time puts out honest information. Check out the article here. I am not trying to bash anyone who went to public school, including myself, but this is classic socialist deceit, which attempts to eschew the truth of the failing public school system by blaming it on social inequality, rather than government and union corruption.
Finally, democrats in the House Foreign Affairs committee, where Republicans are few, passed a resolution 27-21 recognizing the WWI killings of a million or so Armenians as a genocide carried out by the Ottoman Turks. Apparently it is now the responsibility of the U.S. government to write history, to be a final arbiter of historical disputes, to resolve the dilemmas of foreign peoples, and to moralize foreign affairs through the lens of the Unites States congress. Meanwhile, Turkey, a NATO ally, is passing a resolution to permit ground troops to invade northern Kurdish areas of Iraq. Forgive me for being so youthful, but how exactly is this “healing world relations?” Was it genocide? That is almost a fact. Is it more liberal hypocrisy? Nothing could be more certain.
What we need is a congressional truth committee! Which would undoubtedly pass a resolution condemning all the lies mentioned above, or so one would believe. But that would be silly, and Americans are smart enough to know better without a “congressional committee.” Aside from truth itself, this simple fact alone is the worst enemy of the far-left camp, and their constant barrage of lies and socialist propaganda.
God Bless America.
