Comments on: Hussein/McCain & Other Invasive Species

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:50:12 +0000

Excellent column, Ilana. From what I’ve heard the “global warming” paranoia among young people has reached our shores, as well. Several months ago, I overheard a locker room discussion between two young women, one of whom was convinced that if she didn’t take action now (what action?) global warming would be the plague that would wipe out her entire generation.

Seems to me that propagandists such Al Gore (as you mention, he’s hardly someone who appears as if he’s lacking in material substance) have done quite well in turning their pet philosophies into paranoia that some of our young people embrace.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:10:33 +0000

I’m rather concerned about who to vote for too, come election time.

By: Bucktowndusty @ FromThePen.com

Bucktowndusty @ FromThePen.com — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:31:18 +0000

They don’t represent me either, and they won’t see my vote.

Buck

By: Mark Humphrey

Mark Humphrey — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:17:40 +0000

There is a mindset typical of environmentalists, and of socialists and state worshippers in general. This is the mental habit of group-think, whereby one suspends one’s critical judgement to absorb as true whatever the political/cultural nexus is promoting.

Group think, in turn, is a product of philosophical nihilism, the widely-held belief that facts are slippery, that truth is an invention, that moral principles are essentially social conventions. From this perspective, thinking persistently and carefully to achieve understanding in some area is futile. From this perspective, challenging the crowd, and its beliefs, is scary and dangerous.

Naturally, such an outlook is hostile to individualism, because moral character–one’s habits of thought and action–makes humans individual in the sense that cattle or dolphins are not. Greens are unfriendly to capitalism, which is commercial individualism.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:05:52 +0000

In the previous article about Jefferson, my comment is that while Jefferson had some "English" ancestors, they were also at least partly Norman-French, and less certainly "Saxon", and his paternal ancestry was Welsh; although of course he was praising "English" political ideas based upon the Norman-French descended barons and lords, who rebelled against King John and forced the beginning of "English" political rights in the Magna Charta. About John McCain, I can only hope that there will be some kind of Republican Convention revolt that dumps sleepwalking McCain and gives the Republican nomination to a stronger and more conservative Republican. [Ron Paul will be holding a convention down the road. Join his revolution.--IM]

By: nino

nino — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:17:26 +0000

Hey,Where else can you take off from your regular job…travel at company expense (taxpayers)and audition for a still better paying job..Prez!!! Manchurian candidate McCain has so little respect for we the masses (drop the M smirked Karl Marx) because he has never worked in the private sector. 1984 and Brave new World warned of the teevee watching us one day..of course it is all for our own good..just pay the inflated taxes and other bills and nod to our leaders as they drive by in their huge limos while we bike or shuffle on to the store..