The meaning of the word "candidate" is from the same root word as "Candide" and "candid"; it means "white", "unadulterated", "unsullied". The original Greek candidates wore white. Should these guys wear quilts?
Remember how we have always been told how fierce and brave Afghan soldiers have always been? How come our Afghans aren't?
If the government becomes a benevolent power in our lives, it will be the first time ever. Ask Iraq. Ask New Orleans. Ask the pensioner with the ever-changing social security goalposts. Even the church has a spotty record. And the government is a notoriously inefficient and dishonest middleman. Where does this enthusiasm for government action come from?
If the government becomes a benevolent power in our lives, it will be the first time ever. Ask Iraq. Ask New Orleans. Ask the pensioner with the ever-changing social security goalposts. Even the church has a spotty record. And the government is a notoriously inefficient and dishonest middleman. Where does this enthusiasm for government action come from?
The "risk" concept is essential to free markets. Every economic encounter should contain risk because risk is a proxy for responsibility. If you can buy a house with no money down and get 125% from the bank, you can walk away from the mortgage with 25% of the loan and put it in your pocket. No risk. No responsibility. What about no risk, no value?
There were assessments that were made on the implications of withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan. Would they be called "models?"
“Like those of imperial Rome, America’s elites are an urban and international group, perhaps on their way to forming a distinct transnational class. They are cosmopolitan citizens who often have more in common with members of that same class around the world than with other members of their own society. The elites of Washington, New York, Los Angeles, and Boston may be American by birth, but their wall hangings are from Peru, their sculptures from Nunavut, their literary fiction from Sri Lanka, their CDs from Brazil, their basmati from India, their wine from New Zealand. Their religious values, if they have any, may be drawn impressionistically from Eastern and Western traditions—an eclectic pantheon.” [Excerpted from Are We Rome? The Fall of An Empire And The State of America by Cullen Murphy, 2007, p. 147.]
Do these two quotes describe the tension in American politics today?
“Like those of imperial Rome, America’s elites are an urban and international group, perhaps on their way to forming a distinct transnational class. They are cosmopolitan citizens who often have more in common with members of that same class around the world than with other members of their own society. The elites of Washington, New York, Los Angeles, and Boston may be American by birth, but their wall hangings are from Peru, their sculptures from Nunavut, their literary fiction from Sri Lanka, their CDs from Brazil, their basmati from India, their wine from New Zealand. Their religious values, if they have any, may be drawn impressionistically from Eastern and Western traditions—an eclectic pantheon.” [Excerpted from Are We Rome? The Fall of An Empire And The State of America by Cullen Murphy, 2007, p. 147.]
Do these two quotes describe the tension in American politics today?
Will landlords who are not allowed to collect rent keep their property up?
Is our biggest problem financial? Military? Education? You could make an argument that our biggest problem is the disintegration of the family, particularly the abnegation of parental leadership and responsibility. The one social structure commented on in the New Testament over and over again is divorce and this country, a professed Christian nation, has a divorce rate of over 50%. I once asked a basketball coach who coached a private grade school team and an inner-city team what the difference between the two jobs was. He said in the private school he put the kids on the floor and watched them for quickness, vision, enthusiasm, and coachability. With the inner-city team, he started each practice by asking who had eaten that day and first took the rest to lunch.
This is clearly a serious problem. The New Orleans disaster shows there are simply a lot of people out there who need help managing their lives. Should they be having children in this difficult life of theirs as well?
Too tough? Yet we are able to ask very hard questions of the elderly now; those end-of-life equations are serious, regardless of how they are diminished. Why not pair-bonding and reproduction questions? Clearly, a lot of people need help and we have a sacred private sector model: Harmony.com. Imagine how we could increase the information available with the government's huge reach. Why not a National Mating Service?
Is our biggest problem financial? Military? Education? You could make an argument that our biggest problem is the disintegration of the family, particularly the abnegation of parental leadership and responsibility. The one social structure commented on in the New Testament over and over again is divorce and this country, a professed Christian nation, has a divorce rate of over 50%. I once asked a basketball coach who coached a private grade school team and an inner-city team what the difference between the two jobs was. He said in the private school he put the kids on the floor and watched them for quickness, vision, enthusiasm, and coachability. With the inner-city team, he started each practice by asking who had eaten that day and first took the rest to lunch.
This is clearly a serious problem. The New Orleans disaster shows there are simply a lot of people out there who need help managing their lives. Should they be having children in this difficult life of theirs as well?
Too tough? Yet we are able to ask very hard questions of the elderly now; those end-of-life equations are serious, regardless of how they are diminished. Why not pair-bonding and reproduction questions? Clearly, a lot of people need help and we have a sacred private sector model: Harmony.com. Imagine how we could increase the information available with the government's huge reach. Why not a National Mating Service?
Biden seems to argue that he was bound in Afganistan by Trump's agreement with the Taliban. How come he didn't feel bound by Trump's decision on Iran, the Keystone Pipeline, and the Paris Accords?
We will probably spend a lot of O2 debating over how the dreaded Afghans could give up the fight in a week. How about some debate over the geniuses who thought this invasion and transfer of power was a good idea in the first place?
As an aside, do governments ever learn, or do we just do Vietnams every generation or so?
If you were a struggling nation, would you want our help?
The Open Science Collaboration announced that it had tried to replicate one hundred published psychology experiments sampled from three of the most prestigious journals in the field. Of the studies that had originally reported positive results, an astonishing 65 percent failed to show statistical significance on replication, and many of the remainders showed greatly reduced effect sizes.
In 2011 a group of researchers at Bayer decided to review significant drug papers. Looking at sixty-seven recent drug discovery projects based on preclinical cancer biology research, they found that in more than 75 percent of cases the published data did not match up with their in-house attempts to replicate.
In 2011 a group of researchers at Bayer decided to review significant drug papers. Looking at sixty-seven recent drug discovery projects based on preclinical cancer biology research, they found that in more than 75 percent of cases the published data did not match up with their in-house attempts to replicate.
Is this what people mean by "following the science?"
The one simple lesson in the Afghan debacle is this: The Afghan leaders are dining in Europe, or somewhere. They are not suffering with "their" people. The outcome of disasters does not include the makers.
Last on Afghanistan: in the background of American international action has always been that we felt the American values, those that created the individual value-oriented constitution, were worth spreading. Now that the Left has denigrated those values, should America withdraw from trying to influence world progress?
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