Morris: Natives and Newcomers
Can you tell from the following three summaries which groups of Americans are being described? Two million of them flooded into this country in the space of a few years. Followers of “an alien religion,” they were also poor and uneducated, and it was feared they would both strain welfare systems and take over all Read the full article…
The Outstater
THE PHRASE “Going to Hell in a hand basket” dates to the Gold Rush. It refers to men being hand-lowered in baskets down mining shafts to set dynamite. That’s what it feels like these days, and some of us have had enough. We’ve read the analyses of how America is failing. We all see the signs. The question is what we’re Read the full article…
Kubul: Déjà Vu All Over Again?
by Mark Franke Yogi Berra, whom I consider the 20th century’s pithiest philosopher, once reputedly said, “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” Unfortunately much of what Yogi is credited with saying he never actually said, at least if you believe what Yogi himself claims in the several books published about those very quotes. He’s too modest. If Read the full article…
Morris: Dress Code Says All Is Back to Normal
by Leo Morris On the one hand, the little kerfuffle at Fort Wayne’s Northrop High School is too trifling to make a big deal of. But on the other, it invites discussion because it is such a welcome sign of normality in a time when all traditional values are under constant assault. And by “normality,” Read the full article…
The Outstater
Using Statistics to Stop (or Start) a Crime Epidemic CITING STATISTICS showing that blacks make up 14 percent of her state’s population but 53 percent of prisoners. and that blacks make up 80 percent of those incarcerated on a felony firearm charge, a Michigan prosecutor says she will no longer act on felony firearms charges. That is fair warning Read the full article…
Franke: The Sad End of the Boy Scouts
by Mark Franke I recall, just barely, reading James Burnham’s “Suicide of the West” back in my undergraduate days. While not being able to recall most of his arguments, I believe his point was that we are doing this to ourselves. He blamed liberalism, in its modern and not classical definition, for an erosion of Read the full article…
