Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 170
April 6, 2016
Has Wisconsin stopped Trump?
Ted Cruz won a big victory in Wisconsin, taking 51.8% to Donald Trump’s 30.7% and winning in enough congressional districts to take all or nearly all of the state’s 42 delegates. Trump must now win 70% of the remaining delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot. Bernie Sanders also beat Hillary Clinton, taking 53.4% of the [Read More...]
Fascism and other kinds of socialism
Economist Thomas Sowell explains fascist economics (absolute government control of the economy while allowing private ownership) and puts it into the context of other varieties of socialism and leftist ideologies. From Thomas Sowell, Socialist or Fascist : What President Obama has been pushing for, and moving toward, is more insidious [than government ownership of the means of [Read More...]
April 5, 2016
How the Founders tried to prevent a Donald Trump
If Republicans pull some convention maneuvering to prevent the nomination of Donald Trump, wouldn’t that thwart the will of the people? Well, historian Andrew Trees shows that the Founders of our nation who wrote the Constitution believed that the will of the people often needed to be thwarted, or at least checked and balanced. The Founders feared [Read More...]
Big business vs. religious liberty
Indiana, Arkansas, and now Georgia have passed modest religious liberty bills that would, among other things, allow pastors and others with qualms about same-sex marriage to refuse to participate if it violates their beliefs. In each case, pressure from big businesses have caused the governors of each of these states, conservative Republicans all, to kill the laws. [Read More...]
That priest was NOT crucified by ISIS
The priest who was said to have been crucified by ISIS on Good Friday is alive and safe, according to officials from his native India. From Father Thomas Uzhunnalil Not Crucified by ISIS but Alive and ‘Safe,’ Indian Minister Says: Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said Catholic priest Tom Uzhunnalil, who was previously feared [Read More...]
April 4, 2016
The 49 days of Easter
The somber season of Lent seems to last forever (40 days, not counting the six Sundays), but the joyful season of Easter lasts even longer (49 days). Eastertide, or the Easter Season commemorates the 40 days that the risen Christ remained on earth: He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing [Read More...]
Leftists go from frightening to frightened
When someone chalked “vote for Trump” messages on the sidewalk, students at Emory University protested, saying seeing these words made them feel “frightened.” The administration, playing the role of in loco helicopteris parentis, held their hands, offering counseling and promising to investigate who committed this brazen act of democracy. Similarly, in Scripps College in California, someone wrote “Trump 2016” [Read More...]
Pentagon-backed rebels are fighting CIA-backed rebels
In Syria, rebels backed by the Pentagon are fighting rebels backed by the CIA. Yet more proof, says Jonah Goldberg channelling Kevin Williamson, that the government should be in charge of everything. Less sarcastically, it is proof of the incoherence of our foreign policy, the ineptness of the current administration’s attempts at intervention, and our inability [Read More...]
April 1, 2016
Two kinds of masculinity
Imagine my surprise and my pride in seeing my cousin’s daughter quoted by David Brooks in the New York Times. Lorien Foote is a Civil War historian at Texas A&M. She is utterly brilliant and a true expert in her field. (When she visited us in Virginia, we took a drive through Loudon County, during [Read More...]
Sex & child-bearing to be obsolete in 20 years?
[NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S JOKE!] A Stanford professor of law and genetics is maintaining that within as few as twenty years, the connection between sex and procreation will come to an end. No longer will sex have anything to do with reproduction. According to Henry T. Greely, reproductive engineering will be such that men will donate sperm [Read More...]
