Saturday, November 15, 2003

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NOT ALL MINORITIES ARE EQUAL Shelby Steele has an interesting explanation of why identity politics excludes straight, middle class, non...

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LEFTIST “GUILT” “Read the whole thing” is advice bloggers often give to their readers. I seldom do. I try hard to summarize instead. ...

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ELSEWHERE Discriminations has a good point about two hoary and arguably undemocratic American institutions -- the electoral college and...
Friday, November 14, 2003

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RACE, RATIONAL DEBATE AND LEFTISM Ne Quid Nimis has a pretty firm grip on reality as far as race and racism is concerned (though I thin...

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ELSEWHERE R.J.Stove (Australian author of "Unsleeping Eye" -- a history of secret police -- and son of leading Sydney Univ...
Thursday, November 13, 2003

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MORE ON “THE POOR” A reader comments on the email I posted yesterday from someone experienced in welfare housing: “I suppose most of ...

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ELSEWHERE Instapundit has a good post on the ISPP (International Society for Political Psychology). I was a member once. And I have h...
Wednesday, November 12, 2003

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POVERTY IS MOSTLY MENTAL THESE DAYS An email from a reader in response to my post of October 24th : “I just had to write and say tha...

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PUBLIC FUNDING OF POLITICIANS USA Today says that public financing of political campaigns has not created the level playing field inten...

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ELSEWHERE The assault by George Soros on the Bush Presidency is typical of the arrogance that shapes the Left. He thinks that he could...
Tuesday, November 11, 2003

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ACADEMIC FUN AND GAMES Yesterday was a rather fun day for me academically. A copy of the journal containing my first academic article ...

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LEFTIST "COMPASSION" AND "TOLERANCE" Speaking of conservatives being more compassionate, I received the following em...

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VETERANS’ DAY TODAY (Australia is in a time zone that is nearly a day ahead of the USA) I like Tom Barrett’s article on the signif...
Monday, November 10, 2003

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CONSERVATIVE RACISM I noted recently that all racism is not the same. Racism of some kind is just about universal but some forms are m...

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IMMIGRATION PID has a pretty comprehensive post on Pauline Hanson -- who was Australia’s first politician in recent times to advocate ...

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ELSEWHERE I get a lot of email as a result of posts on this blog and most people are very kind in their comments -- something I apprecia...
Sunday, November 09, 2003

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MORE ON THE “HANSON AFFAIR” I mentioned the collapsed conviction of Pauline Hanson for electoral fraud yesterday. Hanson was a broadly...

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ELSEWHERE An Australian senator recently compared the Australian Green party with the Nazis. And he was quoting history rather than ju...
Saturday, November 08, 2003

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"CRAZY WORLD" STORIES A reader sends in some of his own Crazy World stories: "The government runs ads informing us tha...

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ELSEWHERE The release from prison of Pauline Hanson in my home State of Queensland has been covered by the media worldwide -- even as f...