What It Isn’t…Rob Harding
The thought cops of the “Political Correctness” movement would have us believe that “gay marriage” is an issue of equality and fundamental rights for an oppressed minority. It is an interesting comment on our times that anyone challenging these claims is dismissed as a bigot or as a reactionary ideologue. Such is the power of [...]
Mark Steyn, Unfortunately, on Labour Day
Sometimes, I just have the stomach for reading smug, dismissive, condescending writing. Today is such a day as I strolled to Mark Steyn’s website and read what he wrote for Labour Day three years ago. My favourite line that helps me appreciate his uselessness at commenting on broad, authentic human experience is this: “the intellectual [...]
On Katrina…by Greg O’Keefe
A humorous take by Mark Steyn: Consider the signature image of the flood: an aerial shot of 255 school buses neatly parked at one city lot, their fuel tanks leaking gasoline into the urban lake. An enterprising blogger, Bryan Preston, worked out that each bus had 66 seats, which meant that the vehicles at just [...]
It’s time for a little perspective…by Greg O’Keefe
For a little while now I have been hearing from people that President Bush is somehow culpable for the devastation of Katrina. Not so much that he is responsible for the size and intensity of it, although some environmentalists have argued that his—and yet strangely not Congress’—failure to sign Kyoto has wrought this calamity. What [...]
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