political dialogue

How will you vote?

Monday, August 11th, 2008

National Review Online has a handy guide. Here are the questions(I got a 21 on the quiz).
It’s unlikely you’ll vote for Obama if you….
1. aren’t a news anchor.
2. read the New York Times for pretty much the same reason the NSA monitors radio transmissions.
3. automatically conclude that the person laughing in the car next to […]

What do you think?…

Monday, August 6th, 2007

A post from the blog Vox Nova and prompted after viewing the Blumenthal Chicken Hawk video:
Iraq war supporters seems to have latched onto one final mantra: if the United States did not fight [name your enemy] in Iraq, they would be be forced to fight them in the United States.
Let’s think about this for a […]

Jesus, Toleration, and the Contemporary Left

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Yesterday, Michelle Malkin asked “Which is a crime?” to satirize the charging of a Pace University student with a hate crime for placing a Koran in a toilet. This is while other religiously objectionable, although apparently tolerable, acts, such as putting a crucifix in a jar of urine went without so severe a punishment. […]

CNN interview: Blumenthal makes my job easier…

Monday, July 30th, 2007

In regards to Blumentha’s chicken hawk argument, I pointed out that his argument functioned on the premise that one cannot politically support a public policy which one does not directly participate and claimed that what makes an argument as to whether a public policy is bad is not whether or not those who support it […]