Comments on: UPDATED: Fluke’s No Fluke; Sisters Love Uncle Sam

By: Rebel Without a Clause

Rebel Without a Clause — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:10:23 +0000

Well said by all. Take a look at the films of some of Hitler’s speeches, esp. at the crowd pans. Male audience members merely receptive, femmes orgasmic. In contemporary terms, imagine Ann “nuke the goathumpers from orbit” Barnhardt…actually getting hold of a nuclear weapon.

By: My RON-PAUL i

My RON-PAUL i — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 08:01:19 +0000

A few additional remarks – in an earlier age, one might have thought that white Europeans would lift up blacks by serving as role models but (as you and Murray point out) blacks are just showing white families their future. There is a growing white underclass with seemingly science and engineering as a nerdish hiding place for white men!

Reality vs cynical jesting – sometimes I don’t know where one starts or ends …

Not that I advocate going back to some old age of wifebeating male domination – but one would think that a society based upon the sanctity of individual rights and responsibilities could function but then I depart too much from reality!

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:21:41 +0000

Through the 19th Century, women relied on sweaty, smelly, beer-guzzling, Archie Bunker to provide and protect them. But the Progressive Era offered to replace caveman Archie with Uncle Sam and an array of feminized social workers. Teddy Roosevelt or Barack Obama would man the bully pulpit and swing the big stick and Archie can be sent packing back to his cave. [See Post Update.] That was the essence of Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Channeling my caveman Santorum: in 2012, only 1 of 7 black pregnancies result in a baby born to a married couple. Most black men and many white men are merely superfluous roaming sperm donors. Who needs these Neanderthals when Uncle Sam will take care of the fairer sex – send them back to their cave (or jail). Crossing the Vulgar River with Rush, I concede there is nothing in John Galt’s pants to compete with an ICBM – who needs a husband with a gun when there is a hyperactive SWAT team???? Who needs a father to discipline your son when you can have Marxist pedagogues emasculate them???? Even a poor impoverished Georgetown Law Students can’t rely on her boyfriend for birth control – no, that’s Uncle Sam’s job as well.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:02:15 +0000

Memo to Erudites the Umpire:

You hit this one out of the park dear. As to Rush… No one bats a thousand and he struck out as spectacularly as he ever has. “With great power comes great responsibility” and he couldn’t have made a bigger hash of it. That said, his mistakes shouldn’t have the last say in his legacy. He has thousands of sterling monologues that correctly and constitutionally skewer statists throughout his long career and is hated by the left far more for the light he has shed upon them than for his blunders. But he fanned this one badly and you called it! I hope he reads this and learns from you… It is to be hoped he’s already figured this out.

Thanks again and keep up the hardball!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:05:45 +0000

It should be mentioned that part of the problem is the distorting nature of federal income tax policy that makes employer payment of health care benefits in pretax dollars and employee payments in after tax dollars. Most people get health insurance supplied by their employer as a benefit. Since it is not counted as wages the cost of the health insurance is not taxed. When people pay for health care out of their wages the government has already taken money out in taxes. This creates a financial incentive for the employee to become dependent the employer’s greater effective spending power. It erodes self reliance leading to a sense of entitlement which of course is exactly what the profligate popinjay in the White House wants.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:42:33 +0000

Well, the reason I praised each of the columns as representing your work at its best, is that they do represent your work at its best. Many writers, after a certain time - Orwell put it at 15 years - simply get ever feebler. This can happen to authors who started with truly outstanding talents (e.g. Hemingway) quite as much as to those who were never more than sixth-raters to begin with. But although I imagine that sometimes you must want to abandon the struggle, you still keep on smiting civilization's enemies (and they always seem to be the same enemies!). I don't know how you retain the stamina, really I don't.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:56:58 +0000

I am reminded of this article here.. Apparently, libertarians are rather masculine thinkers, which would explain the high percentage of men among us. On a personal note, I've yet to attend any libertarian gathering which wasn't a sausagefest.

By: ROB

ROB — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:22:01 +0000

I think that this might just be Ilana Mercer’s finest, most pungent column to date. [Rob, that you have said this to me on at least 2 more occasions is more than I could have hoped for. Thanks much. And for the quote below.]

Interestingly, G. K. Chesterton, who was rather more indulgent to the French Revolution than he should have been, made a point not wholly different from Orwell’s and John Derbyshire’s. In his book on Bernard Shaw, Chesterton wrote: “When women have fought in revolutions they have generally shown that it was not natural to them, by their hysterical cruelty and insolence; it was the men who fought in the Revolution; it was the women who tortured the prisoners and mutilated the dead.”