Republicans are Cracking Up. No They are Not.

Which is it? Andrew Sullivan says the Republicans are
cracking up
as their various sub-groups
start to fight. Robert D. Kaplan says that the Democrats
need a guy
like Dick Cheney who can
keep all the Democratic constituencies in line.

Competitive Sports? For Children? Whatever Next?

In Britland the progressives are just as firmly opposed to competitive childrens’ sports as
their pals here in the United States. But here is a story that the progressives are losing
and children are winning. The
No Winning Allowed philosophy is being replaced with a school sports program and young teachers that never
experienced competitive sports in their lives (!) are learning how to coach.

Britain's Flourishing Slave Trade

So you thought the slave trade went out in the early 19th century? And slavery itself in the American Civil War. Don’t worry; it’s alive and flourishing in Britain, aided and abetted by East European illegal immigrants. Of course, this new slave trade is not supplying strapping field hands for the cotton fields. It is supplying girls for the sex trade. Is that what liberals mean by “sexual activity”?

Krauthammer "Tells It Like It Is"

Back in the Seventies when liberals ruled the world, a sports-mad liberal Jewish kid from
New York like
Howard Cosell could “tell it like it is,” knowing that liberals claimed an understanding
on reality far beyond the world of sports. Lately, liberals have not been so confident about
their grip on reality. And so now it is evil Jewish neo-cons who have been getting a reputation
for unvarnished truth telling. President Bush can’t say I told you so, but
Charles Krauthammer can.
And does. About freedom, liberation, human rights, and how the Arabs yearned for
freedom just like everyone else, and how President Bush was right when all the
Euro-snobs and NIONist-whackos were wrong.

The Witness of Ashley Smith

The enormity of the Brian Nichols affair in Atlanta speaks for itself. Conservative bad girl
Ann Coulter can twit liberals at full strength about the folly of women guarding
dangerous criminals
(here).
But the real story has been captured by conservative good girl Peggy Noonan
(here).
For the question that bellows out across the noisy public square is: after decades of
the counter-culture,after two generations of children of the welfare state, after the feminist
revolution that attempted to deracinate women and wrench them away from their union with life
and generation, how is a Christian witness by
a young American woman like Ashley Smith possible?

And Now This...

First Wali Jumblatt said it: “[W]hen I saw the Iraqi people voting [on January 30th], 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world”
And now here’s another
Arab voice
saying that the worm has turned and that Bush was right.
“From Casablanca to Kuwait City, what Bush says mirrors, reinforces and, in fact, reflects what has long been in the heart: A yearning for human rights, justice, freedom, rule of law, transparency, limits on power and women’s rights. ”

What Went Wrong? No Fairness Doctrine

Political philosopher John Kerry has
stumbled
on the reason for his defeat, according
to political humorist P.J. O’Rourke. The abolition of the
FCC Fairness Doctrine back in the 1980s. “A lot of the mainstream media were very responsible during the campaign.
They tried to put out a balanced view, and they did show what they thought to be the truth
in certain situations of attack... But it never penetrated.”
If only we could bring back the Fairness Doctrine, then the MSM could retain control of the political
dialogue, wouldn’t they? No chance for out-of-control Swifties, eh Senator?