A scholar at the Cato Institute warns of the danger of hate crimes as thought crimes. These laws violate the First Amendment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF2bBsKCBhA&feature=sdig&et=1242038806.65
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
Health Care Officials Will Decide Who Gets "Free" Health Care
Mark Steyn wrote, April 2009, in Imprimis:
Once you have government health care, it can be used to justify almost any restraint on freedom: After all, if the state has to cure you, it surely has an interest in preventing you needing treatment in the first place.
That's the argument behind, for example, mandatory motorcycle helmets, or the creepy teams of government nutritionists going door to door in Britain and conducting a "health audit" of the contents of your refrigerator...all this for the "free" health care - and in the end you may not get the "free" health care anyway.
Under Britain's National Health Service, for example, smokers in Manchester have been denied treatment for heart disease, and the obese in Suffolk are refused hip and knee replacements.
Patricia Hewitt, the British Health Secretary, says it's appropriate to decline treatment on the basis of "lifestyle choices."
-Reprinted by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale college. Read the entire article at:
http://www.hillsdale.edu/images/userImages/mvanderwei/Page_4221/ImprimisApril09.pdf
Once you have government health care, it can be used to justify almost any restraint on freedom: After all, if the state has to cure you, it surely has an interest in preventing you needing treatment in the first place.
That's the argument behind, for example, mandatory motorcycle helmets, or the creepy teams of government nutritionists going door to door in Britain and conducting a "health audit" of the contents of your refrigerator...all this for the "free" health care - and in the end you may not get the "free" health care anyway.
Under Britain's National Health Service, for example, smokers in Manchester have been denied treatment for heart disease, and the obese in Suffolk are refused hip and knee replacements.
Patricia Hewitt, the British Health Secretary, says it's appropriate to decline treatment on the basis of "lifestyle choices."
-Reprinted by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale college. Read the entire article at:
http://www.hillsdale.edu/images/userImages/mvanderwei/Page_4221/ImprimisApril09.pdf
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
Star Trek vs. Star Wars - Federalism vs. Anti-Federalism
In Star Trek, the federal government is a force for good; in Star Wars, it is an evil leviathan.
The Trek experience is based on the assumption that humans will go beyond the apocalyptic impulse and emerge in future millennia as a federal force for good. As the recent Newsweek article put it: a Peace Corps on interstellar missions of goodwill.
In Star Wars the federal centralized government is seized by power hungry individuals who see themselves as the annointed to bring order to the universe.
Remember, Darth Vader's hand reaching out to Luke Skywalker, revealing that he's not just his father, but that by joining him they can create a Utopian society?
Stars Wars is the Star Trek Federation run amok - emerging as an evil empire, made more sinister and prolonged because of "a perverted science," as Churchill put it as he opened Britain's resistance to Hitler's regime.
That we believe Star Trek is "the vision of the annointed" - to borrow a phrase from Stanford scholar, Thomas Sowell - and not the dangerous Star Wars Empire, shows how naieve the 60's Generation actually is.
Star Wars is the Anti-Federalist impulse that gave us the Bill of Rights. It is that distrust of all federalist, central committee drives to consolidate power.
Distrust anyone dripping in Federation vision, and live quietly on Alderon with your families, because soon a federation will come and make everyone drink the wine of its fornication.
Then, the Death Star they build will be more powerful than the simple, mindless collective of the Borg.
The Trek experience is based on the assumption that humans will go beyond the apocalyptic impulse and emerge in future millennia as a federal force for good. As the recent Newsweek article put it: a Peace Corps on interstellar missions of goodwill.
In Star Wars the federal centralized government is seized by power hungry individuals who see themselves as the annointed to bring order to the universe.
Remember, Darth Vader's hand reaching out to Luke Skywalker, revealing that he's not just his father, but that by joining him they can create a Utopian society?
Stars Wars is the Star Trek Federation run amok - emerging as an evil empire, made more sinister and prolonged because of "a perverted science," as Churchill put it as he opened Britain's resistance to Hitler's regime.
That we believe Star Trek is "the vision of the annointed" - to borrow a phrase from Stanford scholar, Thomas Sowell - and not the dangerous Star Wars Empire, shows how naieve the 60's Generation actually is.
Star Wars is the Anti-Federalist impulse that gave us the Bill of Rights. It is that distrust of all federalist, central committee drives to consolidate power.
Distrust anyone dripping in Federation vision, and live quietly on Alderon with your families, because soon a federation will come and make everyone drink the wine of its fornication.
Then, the Death Star they build will be more powerful than the simple, mindless collective of the Borg.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
With $10 Million, The Leonardo Center Should Be Inclusive of All Utahns
The Leonardo Center in Salt Lake should not receive $10 million until they demonstrate that the science and documentary arts they spread will be inclusive of all peoples in the Salt Lake area.
For example, the trajectory of the Center's oral history section disparages the Mormon Church with pejorative stories that deprecate Mormons, and create a stereotypical monolithic story line that seeks to reveal institutional racism.
And yet, the varied nuance of human history is nowhere found in the gathered stories.
And these stories are to provide the text for all sorts of mockumentaries and docudramas
about Mormons and the Mormon Church!
Missing from Les Kelen's Missing Stories are stories of Utes, African-Americans, Jews, Chinese, Italians, Japanese, Greeks and Chicano-Hispanics who have benefitted from their association with Mormons. But according to Kelen, you would have to talk to people who have converted to Mormonism to find such stories.
And whose kind of science is to be advanced at the Leonardo?
Taxpayers recently spent some $70 million on one of the finest public libraries in the nation. Why did we need a science center, unless it was to push a certain kind of science?
The use of Gunter Hagen's plastinated real human bodies on public display illustrates the kind of science that the Leonardo says we are "hungry for" here in the backwoods of illiterate Utah!
Look for, at the Leonardo, a Logical Positivism that enshrines science as an immutable, infallible guide to human progress, while leaving issues of the human heart on the dissection table. Tellingly, it wasn't until people in the United States squawked loudly about the display of executed Chinese political prisoners did Hagen finally incinerate their bodies.
In addition, the countries which gave a warm welcome to the public display of cadavers in BodyWorld - Germany, Russia and China - are the same countries with a record of mass murders in the millions by Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. That Hagen so casually displayed such bodies back East does tell something in the end.
The Leonardo Center is left-of-center in its political persuasion. It is not inclusive but highly divisive.
A staff member said: One day, we expect that visits to our center will exceed that of Temple Square. So then, it's not about science; it's about another screw-you to the Mormon Church.
You'd think that with $10 million we could purchase some common ground somewhere!
Now where have I heard that before?
For example, the trajectory of the Center's oral history section disparages the Mormon Church with pejorative stories that deprecate Mormons, and create a stereotypical monolithic story line that seeks to reveal institutional racism.
And yet, the varied nuance of human history is nowhere found in the gathered stories.
And these stories are to provide the text for all sorts of mockumentaries and docudramas
about Mormons and the Mormon Church!
Missing from Les Kelen's Missing Stories are stories of Utes, African-Americans, Jews, Chinese, Italians, Japanese, Greeks and Chicano-Hispanics who have benefitted from their association with Mormons. But according to Kelen, you would have to talk to people who have converted to Mormonism to find such stories.
And whose kind of science is to be advanced at the Leonardo?
Taxpayers recently spent some $70 million on one of the finest public libraries in the nation. Why did we need a science center, unless it was to push a certain kind of science?
The use of Gunter Hagen's plastinated real human bodies on public display illustrates the kind of science that the Leonardo says we are "hungry for" here in the backwoods of illiterate Utah!
Look for, at the Leonardo, a Logical Positivism that enshrines science as an immutable, infallible guide to human progress, while leaving issues of the human heart on the dissection table. Tellingly, it wasn't until people in the United States squawked loudly about the display of executed Chinese political prisoners did Hagen finally incinerate their bodies.
In addition, the countries which gave a warm welcome to the public display of cadavers in BodyWorld - Germany, Russia and China - are the same countries with a record of mass murders in the millions by Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. That Hagen so casually displayed such bodies back East does tell something in the end.
The Leonardo Center is left-of-center in its political persuasion. It is not inclusive but highly divisive.
A staff member said: One day, we expect that visits to our center will exceed that of Temple Square. So then, it's not about science; it's about another screw-you to the Mormon Church.
You'd think that with $10 million we could purchase some common ground somewhere!
Now where have I heard that before?
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Daniel Hannan Speech to British PM Gordon Brown
Daniel Hannan, a bright young conservative, member of the European Parliament in Brussels, recently took it to the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
The Far Left-Wing President Barak Obama deserves such too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs
Also, go to his blog:
www.hannan.co.uk
The Far Left-Wing President Barak Obama deserves such too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs
Also, go to his blog:
www.hannan.co.uk
Friday, April 10, 2009
Bill Moyers Journal on Lincoln Extolls Obama's Hope, Ignoring: We Are All Lincoln Now
The actor Sam Watterson, who played Lincoln on stage, read from the words of young Lincoln to the stanzas of modern poets - Schwarz, Ginsburg: Let the Rail Splitter awake! Against the new slave makers!
Then the conclusion: "Perhaps no one has let the rail splitter awake more than Barak Obama," a scholar concludes, with Moyers concurring.
Spirit of Lincoln thy country needs thee now!
But these men cannot see: We are all Lincoln! The worker, the baker, the father, the family - we are all Lincoln, now.
Cloistered in the hovel of a million homes, working at our daily routine - we are all Lincoln, now.
Though we heard from fireside chats that we needed fear only fear itself, the GI Joe in muddy boots slogged through France toward the Ardienne and carried the Republic in his pocket. They were all Lincoln then, as we are all Lincoln now!
This land will be saved, not by infusions of ill-conceived stimulus, stymied by socialist forced sharing of wealth, but by those who believe in the God of this Land, who serve Jesus Christ - I say this in the spirit of and in nearly the same words as Washington the man.
We who will cloth the naked, feed the hungry, minister to the needs of the poor and the afflicted! All without socialist mandate; mandado by love of neighbor!
As we serve our neighbor, we serve That Other.
I say, Mr. President: We are all Lincoln now!
Then the conclusion: "Perhaps no one has let the rail splitter awake more than Barak Obama," a scholar concludes, with Moyers concurring.
Spirit of Lincoln thy country needs thee now!
But these men cannot see: We are all Lincoln! The worker, the baker, the father, the family - we are all Lincoln, now.
Cloistered in the hovel of a million homes, working at our daily routine - we are all Lincoln, now.
Though we heard from fireside chats that we needed fear only fear itself, the GI Joe in muddy boots slogged through France toward the Ardienne and carried the Republic in his pocket. They were all Lincoln then, as we are all Lincoln now!
This land will be saved, not by infusions of ill-conceived stimulus, stymied by socialist forced sharing of wealth, but by those who believe in the God of this Land, who serve Jesus Christ - I say this in the spirit of and in nearly the same words as Washington the man.
We who will cloth the naked, feed the hungry, minister to the needs of the poor and the afflicted! All without socialist mandate; mandado by love of neighbor!
As we serve our neighbor, we serve That Other.
I say, Mr. President: We are all Lincoln now!
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