By Selwyn Duke
Quite a while ago, when all the bailout mania was just getting started, I mentioned on a radio show that the left soon might propose aiding their public relations team, the newspaper industry. Well, it wasn't but a few weeks later that a story on the subject broke, and I wrote about it here. And now this movement seems to be picking up steam. As Ann Shibler at JBS.org tells us :
By Selwyn Duke
If you know anything about “human rights commissions,” you know that
never were there entities more euphemistically named. They have
proliferated throughout the Western world and have become tools of the
thought police, and whatever rights they purport to protect, the right
to speak Truth isn’t one of them. For evidence of this, just ask
Canadian Christian Mark Harding,
who ran afoul of the Ontario Human Rights Commission for criticizing
Islam and was punished by his government. Or ask journalist Mark Steyn
(I guess it’s not a good time for Marks to be rendering opinions),
whose article “The Future Belongs to Islam” in Maclean’s
magazine led to the publication being the target of a “human-rights
complaint” in Canada (I guess it’s not a good time for Canadians to be
rendering opinions, either).
Now the United Nations Human Rights Council seeks to bring this
prescribed placidity to the whole world with a resolution that places
religion in general and Islam in particular off-limits for criticism.
Not surprisingly, Pakistan put the resolution forward on behalf of the
Organization of the Islamic Conference. This is much like how the
charges against Maclean’s were brought by two members of the
Canadian Islamic Congress who claimed that the magazine hurt Muslims’
“dignity, feelings and self-respect.” It’s yet another example of a
culturally exhausted West’s capitulation to a resurgent Muslim world.
Call it Saladin meets Richard the Chickenheart.
Read the rest here.
A reader sent me the following little story. I think you'll enjoy it immensely and appreciate its message.
A Harley rider is passing the zoo,
when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her
inside to slaughter her, right before the eyes of her screaming parents. The biker
jumps off his bike, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with
a powerful punch. Whimpering from the pain, the lion jumps back letting go of
the girl. The biker then brings her to her terrified parents, who thank him
endlessly.
By Bruce Walker
The doctored outrage at AIG
executives raises one of the ugliest specters in modern political
history: mindless fury directed at “Finance Capitalism.” The
profits of men who create goods and services is easy to defend. Bill
Gates gave us Windows. T. Boone Pickens and Ross Perot drilled for
oil. Sam Walton retailed consumer goods at very low prices. People
grasp the value to society which these men produce.
By Selwyn Duke
With the recent passage of the
“TARP bonus” bill, it’s obvious that our politicians are finally serious about
tackling the problem of greed. It’s
about time, too. We’ve long had “hate
crime” laws, so one had to wonder when the next deadly sin would make it on the
legislative agenda.
Must-hear Speech: Brilliant British Politician Has Choice Words for Statists
http://youtube.com/v/94lW6Y4tBXs
This is Daniel Hannan, a British member of the European Parliament, rendering a speech with an eloquence that makes Barack Obama look like an amateur. He is delivering a tour de force, giving leftist British Prime Minister Gorden Brown a tongue lashing he'll never forget. Yet this isn't just a message for Britain's lacking leader — it's a message for statists the world over.
By Selwyn Duke
Since liberals place a premium
on tolerance, the loving and charitable thing to do is help them develop
it. Note here that, unbeknownst to many,
tolerance involves enduring something considered to be a negative. We don’t tolerate a fine meal or a nice car,
for instance; we relish such things. But
we might have to tolerate bad weather, a cold or Nancy Pelosi. Now, since liberals actually perceive a great
many positive things to be negative, placing them in situations wherein they
may cultivate tolerance is not difficult.
