Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Aug 04 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article
It was Aristotle who first stated that man is a social animal. He was right. Humans define themselves by their allegiance to their family, their community and their country. The ancient desert rule condemning a thief to lose his hand (an idea that Mohammed co-opted), was not intended simply to cause physical [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Jun 19 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article, Liberalism Watch
….And everything that’s wrong with modern liberal political discourse is summed up in these two beautiful paragraphs that Michael Gerson wrote about Al Franken (emphasis mine):
Our popular culture, of course, violates even these expansive boundaries of tastelessness with regularity. We laugh at comedies featuring the C-word, and at cartoons of foul-mouthed third-graders. In the cause [...]
MKFreeberg at House of Eratosthenes on May 08 2008 | Filed under: Liberal-Conservative Grudge Match, Liberalism Watch
Found this article via Boortz that says conservatives are much happier in life than liberals, and tries to find an explanation for this differential.
Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found.
Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a [...]
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Apr 26 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article
It’s always disheartening when some liberal political body, long after conservative tocsins have been ringing a frantic warning, suddenly — and too late — realizes that the warning was in fact valid. For example, conservatives kept saying that biofuels would cause food shortages, a thought liberals pooh-poohed. Now that there are actual food shortages, liberals [...]
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