The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
From Ann Althouse‘s comments via Instapundit:
I think the thing that made Rush so popular was his sense of cheerful optimism. Unlike the O’Rilleys and Savages of the world, Rush has always been optimistic about the future.
I think that the Obama presidency has been such a disaster of Biblical proportions that Rush is no longer optimistic about the future.
— Jim Howard
One of the things about Bill Whittle that amazes me is his nearly unflappable optimism. I wish I could share it, but I don’t.
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Robb Allen has written a truly excellent post, not just because he linked here or even that I agree with it completely – I mean, this one is really outstanding. Expect to see it spread around the Internet attributed to Major Caudill.
Stormclouds:
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First, some advice:
But if that advice is taken:
Came across this ad tonight while surfing the Intertubes:
A jobs website dedicated to “Black Careers.” Hmm. Would that be careers that are open to anyone but traditionally done by black people? Such as? Or would it be a job site exclusively for people of black African descent – Caucasians, Asians and others need not apply?
Am I off base thinking that a “WhiteCareers.com” website would be – dare I say it – racist?
12 gauge, apparently:
16-foot python found in Florida had eaten a deer
Officials in the Florida Everglades have captured and killed a 16-foot-long Burmese python that had just eaten an adult deer.—Hardin said the python had recently consumed a 76-pound female deer that had died. He said it was an important capture to help stop the spread of pythons further north.The python was killed with a shotgun blast.
Wow.
Several years ago Peggy penned a piece about “tough history coming.” Saturday, her Wall St. Journal column echoes that earlier piece a bit:
People are increasingly fearing the divisions within, even the potential coming apart of, our country. Rich/poor, black/white, young/old, red/blue: The things that divide us are not new, yet there’s a sense now that the glue that held us together for more than two centuries has thinned and cracked with age. That it was allowed to thin and crack, that the modern era wore it out.
What was the glue? A love of country based on a shared knowledge of how and why it began; a broad feeling among our citizens that there was something providential in our beginnings; a gratitude that left us with a sense that we should comport ourselves in a way unlike the other nations of the world, that more was expected of us, and not unjustly — “To whom much is given much is expected”; a general understanding that we were something new in history, a nation founded on ideals and aspirations —— liberty, equality —— and not mere grunting tribal wants. We were from Europe but would not be European: No formal class structure here, no limits, from the time you touched ground all roads would lead forward. You would be treated not as your father was but as you deserved.
“Shared knowledge.” Education. That had to go first.
RTWT.
It’s a government database! It’s starting out in the wrong hands! I don’t know if you were keeping track in the 20th Century, dude, but Governments out-pointed Nigerian 419 Scammers by several hundred million to zero on the big International Dead Guy Scoreboard.