Liberty Reborn

This week Ward Churchill was fired by the University of Colorado. The university apparently decided that they should finally look into the man that they have allowed to run rampant around their campus and found that this was a man who stole the work of others (plagiarized), concocted events which he later passed off as “history”, and committed other dubious acts of while within the world of academia.

On Monday I was reading about a study which supposedly shows that American individualism hinders our ability to understand others. Now the counter claim in this study is that collectivist societies (communist, socialist, etc.) help people that live under them understand others better and take into account their “point of view”. This is a polite way of saying, “You damn Americans are the reason there are problems in the world! You don’t understand our point of view!”

I wish I could go just one day without a prominent liberal throwing a stone from their own glass house. When Hillary Clinton said of the commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence by President Bush, “What we saw today was elevating cronyism over the rule of law. And what we saw today was further evidence that this administration has no regard whatsoever for what needs to be held sacred,” I had to laugh.

The internet is a great thing and we should all be thankful to Al Gore for creating it for us. Now, before I get one more email from some numbskull saying that Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet let me put that fallacy to rest by providing you with his exact quote: “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the internet.” – Al Gore, CNN’s “Late Edition” March 9th, 1999

Seven hundred and some odd pages of legislative gobbledygook later, the Senate has decided to bang its head against the wall again. Like an insane person, some of our elected officials need to be given special helmets and placed in a rubberized cell to avoid causing any permanent damage to themselves. On second thought, forget the helmet and the rubberized cell. I’ll take my chances that any damage Senators like Teddy Kennedy or John McCain do to themselves would be an actual improvement.

Did you know that non-humans are supposed to have “human rights”? Talk about losing the language, but that is exactly what some are trying to establish. The test subject for redefining “human” is a 26-year old chimpanzee named Hiasl which certain animal rights activists are trying to get legally declared a “person”. This all of course ignores the fact that Hiasl is not a person. But hey, what’s a obvious discrepancy like that among friends ad political activists right?

Are we now to assume that the anti-religious left is giving up its crusade against the promotion of religion on public property with public monies? I ask this question with all seriousness since it appears to be the case based on an astonishing lack of legal challenges to the addition of special foot washing stations at the Kansas City International Airport to allow Muslim cab drivers to clean themselves before praying.

Well, Don Imus has done it. The mumbling fool has once again proven, completely unwittingly of course, that there are just some things that you cannot say without drawing the ire of so-called leaders of a particular group (any group) unless you are a member of that group.

So, you think our elected leaders are finally taking seriously exactly just how soft of targets our schools really are? You may certainly think this when New Jersey’s Burlington Township School Superintendent Chris Manno said of a mock terrorist attack on the school and training session that “We need to practice under conditions as real as possible”.

New York State Senator Carl Kruger really feels with every fiber of his little bleeding heart that government is the solution to all the really pressing problems in society. In particular he thinks that government is the best way to stop stupid people from doing stupid things.