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OWS: Next on the Agenda—Seizure of Private Property

Ethan — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:38:57 +0000

OWS and its media pimps have shown precious little regard for the wanton destruction of property—public and private—and damage to local business that have characterized the movement. ... But in a society of law, you can’t just take what you want—even what you need—from others without ushering in anarchy.

A look at the Occupy Wall Street Declaration

Ethan — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:29:20 +0000

Not a single foreign maker in the U.S. is unionized, yet their employees enjoy similar pay and benefits and nary a one of those evil corporations has ever been bailed out by taxpayers. ... A relative handful of companies (as a percentage of all U.S. corporations) create weapons of all kinds (though we haven’t created any new WMDs in years) at the direction of our federal government, i.e., at the request of “we, the people.”

Occupy What? Why?

Ethan — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:10:56 +0000

If you agree that a person is entitled to the sweat of their brows, that being talented at management should not entitle others to act like overseers and overlords, that all workers should have the right to engage in decisions, democratically, then you might be one of us. ... Our students don’t need more democracy, they need to learn calculus and physics, and how to communicate in coherent English—and they need teachers who actually know those subjects instead of drones who’ve been inculcated with child psychology but couldn’t solve a simple math problem or parse a sentence to save their lives.

CA Keeps Chipping Away at Parents

Ethan — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:08:08 +0000

In yet another outrageous but unsurprising attack on the family , the state of California will now allow 12-year-old girls to get the HPV vaccine without requiring parental consent. The Left truly will not be satisfied until the state has removed all parental authority to itself.

Utter Disdain For Our Real Heroes

Ethan — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:47:18 +0000

How can you possibly not have enough room to include firefighters in the 9/11 memorial services? New Yorkers should thank God Bloomberg was not in office ten years ago.

WSJ—The Fall of the Midwest Economic Model

Ethan — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:51:04 +0000

It turns out that the 1970 assembly line, with union shop stewards always poised to shut it down, was not the highest stage of human economic development. ... Perry needs to avoid discussing the other Republican candidates and focus entirely on the things Texas is doing differently, why they are working when liberal policies in other states are failing, and how they can be extended to the country at large.

Connecticut Rapist/Murderer Gets Death Sentence

Ethan — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 06:34:26 +0000

In the closest thing to justice attainable under our laws, Steven Hayes has been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a Connecticut woman and the murder of her two teenage daughters.

Gun-free zones simply aren’t

Ethan — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:12:12 +0000

Two U.S. Postal Service employees were fatally shot in TN. The perp is still at large. Think he would have been as bold if he thought half the people in the building were armed instead of knowing they weren’t?

A Nation of Girly-Men

Ethan — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:34:19 +0000

Elementary schools are limiting the activities boys can use to productively channel their innate aggression and competitive drives, for example eliminating such useful games as dodgeball. Youth sports associations hand out trophies to every kid for the sheer act of breathing and their parents' ability to pony up the $100 registration fee instead of reserving accolades for those who actually accomplish something on the field of play. Schools hand out awards for good behavior and "citizenship" (i.e., being nice to classmates) instead of mandating them and rewarding academic performace. After all, we don't want to hurt anyone's self-esteem by leaving them out as we hold up exemplary achievement as a mark to be emulated. Now we're being told that modern superheroes are bad role models.

Gun-Free Zone in NM Turns Deadly

Ethan — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:08:44 +0000

A former employee of Emcore Corporation forced his way past “security” and killed three people inside.