Rinky Dink Reading Lists

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was recently given $1 million by banker John Allison on the condition that the University make Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged required reading.

Religious studies Professor Richard Cohen responded "It's going to make us look like a rinky-dink university. It's like teaching the Bible as a requirement." First of all, professors continue to make garbage like I Rigoberta Menchu and the musings of Michel Foucault required reading (not to mention the writings of Karl Marx). If atheistic left wingers are a legitimate subject, then why is the atheistic right-winger Rand off-limits? Second, why does Richard Cohen teach religious studies if the Bible offends him? What text does Cohen use in teaching about religion? It is high time that colleges have some balance in what students are expected to read. Allison is on the right track.

Worse Than Terrorists?

What does the judicial system's make up have to do with slavery (See my previous blog "Making slaves of free men")? The fact that liberals force their pro-abortion preferences on the Judiciary is much like what the slavery advocates did before the CIvil War. Even Chief Justice Roberts was asked at his confirmation about whether or not he believed in "the right to privacy," liberal-speak for abortion-on-demand. It is much like the way that slavery advocates jealously guarded every seat in Congress, and insisted on new slave states (including their dream- - five slave states to come out of Texas. ) The ultimate misuse was that of Justice Taney and Dred Scott. In much the same way, the pro-life movement is harassed, marginalized, and treated as terrorists. Indeed, with the current Democratic proclivities, being pro-life is worse than being a terrorist. Lincoln said that the Democrats of his time were making slaves out of free men, and by that Lincoln meant that slavery supporters were taking away what power the opponents of slavery had. Witness tha near-death of Senator Charles Sumner at the hands of a slavery supporter, a crime committed on the very floor of the Senate chamber. With the pro-abortion headlock on the judiciary, it is only likely to get worse for abortion opponents.

Your Name In Print

All three presidential hopefuls have written a book. Does this mean that the three are great thinkers, or that they're grandiose self-promoters? I don't recall Lincoln being a published writer, but that racist rascal Woodrow Wilson wrote several books.

Making Slaves of Free Men

For in order to prove that Americans have no right to their liberties, we are every day endeavoring to subvert the maxims which preserve the whole spirit of our own.
Edmund Burke
Conciliation With America, 1775