A National Curriculum
by Mike at the Big Stick I am a conservative, so many of my views on education are, well, conservative. But I’ve also been involved with public education for a long time through my...
Monthly Archive: July 2009
Free or Ad-Free?
Microsoft is going to give away the online version of Office 2010 for free. Douglas Rushkoff thinks this is the wrong approach:
comedy and tragedy
Enlarging government is like doing drama. Limiting government is like doing comedy. Let me explain. At the Oscars, the Best Picture nominees are almost always dramas. Usually they are tragic and romantic and perhaps...
quick thought on nihilism
Do you think that professing to be a social conservative and then offering rather than charity or love to your political opponents, only naked vitriol, is in fact a sign of nihilism?
No Country for Conservative Health Care Policy
~by Dan Miller There’s something a bit frustrating about the health care debate that’s been going on here at the League. Health care has been THE liberal project for literally decades; entire careers (not...
Mother Jones and the War on Drugs
Mother Jones has a series of articles on the doomed-from-the-start War on Drugs well worth checking out. Oh, and you can take the quiz, too! See how much you know! (I missed two questions…)...
musician’s cooperative
So I’m a musician when I’m not a blogger or a worker or a father or a husband (etc.) In other words, I’m a very part-time musician. Indeed, while I’ve gotten better over the...
Singapore’s health care system
Via Chris in the comments, this intriguing look at the Singapore health-care system:
Nothing To See Here
One cost-free way for conservatives to appeal to minority voters would be to do a better job of policing internal discourse. After all, repeating “Party of Lincoln!” ad nauseum doesn’t really help things when...
health care, flip-flopping, and drunken boxing…er…blogging
Okay, so Michael Drew in the comments has pointed out that I have been inconsistent in my take on health care. Indeed, my take on health care is one that is “in the making”...
Simplistic Is as Simplistic Does: Ralph Peters Edition
Ralph Peters writing in the USA Today has penned a less than stellar op-ed for your perusal. He begins with an analysis of all Democratic presidents since LBJ–namely that they are too interested in...
thoughts on health care ctd.
Conor writes: As I ponder an Obama Administration health care reform bill, whatever that turns out to look like, I am struck by how different the debate is on the left, where Ezra Klein...
Best. Craigslist Ad. Ever.
A sample: OK, let me start off by saying this f150 is only available for purchase by the manliest of men (or women). My friend, if it was possible for a vehicle to sprout...
Noooooooo!
Hilzoy calls it quits. She was one of the left-o-sphere’s best voices of reason and calm. While I understand that she is happy with where things have progressed in the last 7 or 8...
Practical Steps to Limiting Government: Required Reading Edition
“If companies that are “too big to fail” are too big to exist, then bills that are “too long to read” are too long to pass. This sort of behavior — passing bills that...
A Thought on Healthcare
Reading the comments to E.D.’s link-fest yesterday, I noticed that there is a lot of resistance to the idea that universal health care will stifle innovation in the US. This idea is generally taken...
The Greatest Scene Ever Filmed?
In honor of Bastille Day. If this doesn’t send chills up your spine, check your pulse:
