The Growing Authenticity Gap
March 31, 2008
Judgepedia, Collaboration, and Liberty
March 31, 2008
By Michael A. Tams
One of the more interesting new media innovations of the last few years has been the rise and adoption of wikis as open collaboration projects.
Wikipedia, of course, is the best-known and with good reason. Started in 2001, Wikipedia boasts 2,307,939 articles and over 6.7 million registered users. It’s the gold standard, and has spawned wikis world-wide through the sharing of its open-source software. Read more
About Those “47 Million” Uninsured
March 31, 2008
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We are reminded by Democrats every day that there are “47 million uninsured” people in America. Out of a population of 300 million, that therefore means that 84% of Americans in fact do have health insurance. Democrats do not like to remind us of this, or to remind us that even uninsured people must by law be treated in hospitals.
But let’s consider the 47 million that Democrats say are not insured:
How many millions of these people lacking health insurance have led a derelict life as criminals, drug addicts, alcoholics etc.?
Many, friends, many millions. Yet Democrats claim that drug addicts and alcoholics have “a disease” and that criminals are decent people who just have had bad breaks.
How many millions of people without health insurance grew up poor because they did not have a father in their home, as Democrats and feminists have insistently maligned the presence of men in the home, and advocated a lifestyle of single motherhood, with its vastly higher rates of poverty? (more…)
Sleepwalkers in Dangerous Times
March 31, 2008
I am intimately surrounded by enemy propaganda and I’ve only myself to blame. For example, I have been reading Publishers Weekly (PW) for a very long time. I don’t have to but I won’t give it up. Yes, I have noted the leftward drift of their reviews but, like the New York Times, whose editors and book reviewers have drifted similarly left-ward, PW remains a “must” for all those who want to read reviews of upcoming book titles and who want to know what publishing deals are in the works.
In their March 10th issue (I am behind this month), there is an image on page 66 and a glowing review on page 74. The photograph is titled “Palestinians waiting to be processed at an Israeli checkpoint, West Bank.” Yes, another image, another work. The book is titled Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation. The anonymous reviewer finds the book “urgent,” and focuses on how many Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli military operations-as if Israelis planned to kill the children.
This image, this idea, this reality has been burned into Western and Eastern brains. The Chinese Occupation of Tibet, the Sudanese genocide, the thousands of Muslim on Muslim atrocities and Islamist acts of terrorism all pale by comparison. The “Israeli checkpoints” was an accusation hurled at me when I spoke at Barnard in 2003. As I described the features of Islamic gender and religious apartheid, (honor killings, arranged marriage, polygamy, forced veiling, female genital mutilation, etc.) the assembled feminist crowd kept yelling at me to “admit” or to “focus on” the checkpoints. No matter what I said, they shouted back: “What about the humiliation at the checkpoints?” Continue Reading >>
Cleaning up Chicago’s police force
March 31, 2008
Good news Chicago: There’s a new police superintendent in town. His name is Jody Weis, and he’s earning a lot of press coverage for his plans to improve the force. (...)Ron Paul calls Obama a fraud
March 31, 2008
Ron Paul takes exception to Barack Obama’s voting record and views on the war.
Alaska’s 2006 Pork Bill More Than The State’s Original Pricetag
March 31, 2008
That’s right, Oink Report readers. In 2006 Republican Alaska Senator Ted Stevens managed to secure more pork from the federal government than that same federal government paid for the state 141 years ago.
Back then Alaska was purchased with a $7.2 million check to the Russians. That’s $104 million in today’s dollars when adjusted for inflation. In 2006, Stevens managed to secure $325 million in pork for the state.
Now some of us here at the Oink Report are from Alaska, and the state holds something of a special place in our hearts. We’ve always felt that America got quite a bargain on that original purchase. But even so, is it right that one year of pork should be more than three times what the state was originally purchased for?
We don’t think it is. Americans already paid to buy Alaska once. They don’t need to be more than buying it again every single year.
Puerto Rico isn’t the only place that wants to become the 51st
March 31, 2008
Long Island does too.Warning: Cell phones cause brain cancer!…again
March 31, 2008
According to this study done by a neurosurgeon in the UK (which should arouse suspicions right off the bat; what was the last great medical innovation that came out of the UK?) cell phone usage causes brain cancer. (...)I do not know if this is the sign of the times or Government control
March 31, 2008
There was an article in The New York Times, that really concerned me that the amount of people who are on Food Stamps, is at an all time high. (...)-
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