A COMMENTER at VFR writes this excellent description of Barack Obama: Obama embodies the worst of all the modern liberal political pathologies–intellectual bankruptcy, boundless arrogance, embrasure of the “transgressive” as a virtue, the postmodern critique of the concepts of objective reality and absolute moral values, contempt towards and demonization of political opponents, the elevation [...]

  AS I WROTE in this entry, there is a basic misunderstanding about the public library’s democratic mission. The library now strives to be all things to all people. Technological change is also rapidly altering the library’s role. The library of the past is gone, but books are still the main purpose. Traditionally, a library preserves the highest. In the way, a [...]

  GARY NORTH, an economist and social conservative, posted some interesting reflections on the Tea Party at his site. The movement lacks a real leader, he writes, and that is an asset. Its libertarian side will probably fade with time and it will become a growing force in politics. He predicts that it will be led by the best and brightest of homeschooled [...]

  FITZGERALD writes: I went to our public library with my youngest son recently and was horrified by the book selection. I haven’t darkened a library in years thanks to Amazon.com’s used book service and I’m glad because the bias was more apparent than ever. First, the rulers of the library fiefdom were a group of frumpy, angry [...]

  THE DAILY MAIL examines the trend of British career women converting to Islam. Many of them do so after dating a Muslim man. Some describe their sense of higher purpose after their conversion.   By the way, Lauren Booth, Tony Blair’s sister-in-law, converted to Islam SIX WEEKS AGO. She experienced a mystical revelation at a shrine in Qom and [...]

  THIS ARTICLE about how the new health care law will deny tax breaks for breast pumps is typical of the sort of public controversies that come with nationalized medicine. This mind-numbing distraction and pettiness will become routine. When Obama  ran for election, he spoke about the need for every woman to get free mammograms. Imagine George Washington talking about [...]

  JOSH F. writes: I believe it to be a dangerous illusion to view Muslim women as  oppressed. After all, good, devout Muslim women are mothers of devout  jihadists. In fact, when one really absorbs the head-to-toe covering  of a devout Muslim woman, it is hard not to see the uniform of a  warrior. The [...]