It still smarts that John E. Sununu, the Senate's only engineer, lost to what I consider an intellectual lightweight and a crass triangulating politician, Jeanne Shaheen, for the US Senate.
One datum that still shocks is how much higher the female vote was for liberal Shaheen, thirty-one points. That still doesn't make sense.
This book, linked to by my homepage Instapundit, has a reviewer who attempts to defend the modern leviathan state in a way almost certain to draw guffaws. At least from me.
I'm reminded how Benjamin Franklin records in his Autobiography how he became a deist, a believer in the clockwork universe, after reading a book attacking it. The quotations it used from deists was enough to convince Franklin that deism had something going for it.
I'm forty-two years old. During that time, the US federal government has grown enormously and, frankly, I don't think there's much to show for it. That's another debate, but to defend it by obstetrician competency boards as this one-star reviewer does of the little book is laughable.
As we saw with Hurricane Katrina, when the state is no longer able to provide and defend women who have largely used it to replace husbands, they can be in a world of hurt. I'm afraid women are much more likely to embrace security in exchange for liberty.
I think John Derbyshire touches upon this in one of his early chapters in his new book We Are Doomed. I love it!
Remember when this country was founded we had the "Liberty Song," Liberty Bell, liberty trees, etc. It was about freedom. How quaint it all seems as we rush headlong into socialism.
One datum that still shocks is how much higher the female vote was for liberal Shaheen, thirty-one points. That still doesn't make sense.
This book, linked to by my homepage Instapundit, has a reviewer who attempts to defend the modern leviathan state in a way almost certain to draw guffaws. At least from me.
I'm reminded how Benjamin Franklin records in his Autobiography how he became a deist, a believer in the clockwork universe, after reading a book attacking it. The quotations it used from deists was enough to convince Franklin that deism had something going for it.
I'm forty-two years old. During that time, the US federal government has grown enormously and, frankly, I don't think there's much to show for it. That's another debate, but to defend it by obstetrician competency boards as this one-star reviewer does of the little book is laughable.
As we saw with Hurricane Katrina, when the state is no longer able to provide and defend women who have largely used it to replace husbands, they can be in a world of hurt. I'm afraid women are much more likely to embrace security in exchange for liberty.
I think John Derbyshire touches upon this in one of his early chapters in his new book We Are Doomed. I love it!
Remember when this country was founded we had the "Liberty Song," Liberty Bell, liberty trees, etc. It was about freedom. How quaint it all seems as we rush headlong into socialism.
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