After spending way too much time reading throughout the blogosphere this weekend, I thought I'd share with you a few posts that might peak your interest.
The Puritans:
"Political correctness" has gone way to far on both sides of the aisle and everywhere in between. I mean, everyone is offended by everything!
In her recent column, Mona Charen complains about the "pornification of society," using an ad for PajamaGrams that claims to be "the only gift guaranteed to get your wife or girlfriend to take her clothes off."
I agree with Black & Right, who (like this blog) has "certainly distanced [his] style from my bowtie brethren," and that as men "we really do enjoy women being women."
Mona may make a few valid points in regards to pornography, but by nit-picking the smallest of things, she destroys any validity she may have on the more detrimental complications of porn.
Besides ... if a man doesn't want to get his wife out of her clothes, or the wife doesn't want out of her clothes ... to me, it sounds like they've got relationship problems ... not commercial watching problems.
Northeastern Republicans:
Professor Stephen Bainbridge says it's time to excommunicate William Kristol, and I whole-heartedly agree!
One of the many strange things about me is that I became interested in politics in the 6th grade. Yes, a little early ... it was 1980, and although just a kid, Ronald Reagan's message resonated with me, everything I knew about the founding of our country, and the reasons my ancestors moved here. Limited-government is simply more compatible with the human spirit.
I've been a "registered Republican" since my 18th birthday, and also voted Libertarian many times. This got me thinking (yes, it hurt) ... that it's more important to consider yourself a "conservative" or "libertarian" or whatever, than it is to consider yourself a "Republican." Afterall ... what good has that done us?
George Bush Jr. is second only to FDR in growing the size and scope of government, and concerning the presidential elections since my 18th birthday, the only true "wasted votes," have been the ones cast for the Republican nominee.
The Republican Party needs YOU! Not the other way around. Why support a business that doesn't offer the product you want?
Which reminds me ... this article from the American Thinker is a MUST READ for any and all "conservatives, Republicans and libertarians."
Yes, I use the terms "conservative" and "Republican" independently. One is a set of beliefs and values. The other is just a political machine ... really, nothing more than a big political corporation.
The Abortion Industry:
As the Obama administration prepares to fund abortion clinics using your money, The Partisan Report shares some important information concerning Planned Parenthood.
I hope even those who are pro-abortion can see the serious moral implications of what UCLA student Lila Rose discovered. Posing as a 13-year old who got knocked-up by a 31-year old man, a Planned Parenthood employee shows her how to avoid state laws regarding both abortion, and child abuse.
On Being a Man:
In a running conversation with a few other bloggers, Todd Seavey has been discussing whether feminism is, or is not, a libertarian virtue. Todd then asks the question, "Is manliness an even more libertarian virtue?"
He then directs us to an interview with the former libertarian mayor of Carmel, CA, Clint Eastwood, who talks about many things including "Generation Pussy."
A few quotes from Clint:
We live in more of a pussy generation now, where everybody's become used to saying, "Well, how do we handle it psychologically?" In those days, you just punched the bully back and duked it out. Even if the guy was older and could push you around, at least you were respected for fighting back, and you'd be left alone from then on.
You wonder sometimes. What will we do if something really big happens? Look how fast--seven years--people have been able to forget 9/11 ... the public can get pretty blasé about stuff like that. Nobody got blasé about Pearl Harbor.
I remember going to a huge waterfall on a glacier in Iceland ... There was a place that wasn't sealed off, but it had a cable that stopped anybody from going past a certain point. I said to myself, You know, in the States they'd have that hurricane-fenced off, because they're afraid somebody's gonna fall and some lawyer's going to appear. There, the mentality was like it was in America in the old days: If you fall, you're stupid.
Children teach you that you can still be humbled by life, that you learn something new all the time. That's the secret to life, really--never stop learning.
It keeps coming back to "We've come this far, let's not ruin it by thinking."
