Rick Santorum
June 30, 2011
(Warning: This entry talks about some pretty gross stuff. If you don’t want to be exposed to it, you may be better off just skipping this whole entry.)
A number of people are currently running to be the Republican nominee for president in 2012. One of them is former senator Rick Santorum.
Santorum is a fiscal conservative and a foreign-policy conservative, but what’s really “politically incorrect” nowadays is that he’s also a social conservative. He is strongly against homosexuality, for example. Read the rest of this entry »
On Being “Driven”
November 18, 2010
A friend calls my attention to an interesting article about women, work, and culture in the Netherlands. It suggests that in feminist and post-feminist America, women tend to feel unrelenting pressure to succeed on the same terms as men in the workplace, while also trying to find time for such traditionally feminine activities as caring for their children. Because women are given no more hours in the day than men are, they cannot find the time to do everything, and are unhappier than American women of generations past. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s an Idea
October 10, 2010
Liberals, let’s make a deal: No conservative will have an opinion on employment, labor markets, or economics until he has experienced being an employee, at least once, and no liberal will have an opinion on such things until he has experienced being an employer.
Case Closed
June 4, 2010
As someone who has more than once wondered what is true and whether (and with how much certainty) it is even possible to know, I was interested to learn that three factual claims I had heard Mark Steyn and other commentators make in the past have now been confirmed by longtime liberal bastion The New York Times and more-or-less liberal “newsmagazine” Time:
Leaving, Leaving, Left
March 30, 2010
Dennis Prager argues that Leftism is a religion.
Mark Steyn, as usual, is must-read material.
Meanwhile, Ramesh Ponnuru contemplates whether Progressivism is inherently self-defeating.