AMERICAN BORDERS
TO BE DISMANTLED
Apathy Concedes defeat to the enemies of Responsible Freedom
AMERICAN BORDERS
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Fake Liberals Versus Real Liberals
Why I Left The Nation [magazine] By Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens writes a letter to Katha Pollit, a columnist for The Nation:
My dear Katha,
First, I should thank you for writing to me as if you thought it mattered what I said ["Subject to Debate," November 25], and for telephoning me a few weeks ago in the same spirit, and also for eschewing the accusations--scumbag, sellout, toady, moral degenerate, etc.--which, true as some of them may well be of me, have scant bearing on the future of Iraq, or on the war against theocratic nihilists. I have always esteemed your work as well, and I like to think that our differences of principle have long been deep as well as narrow.
Deceased at the age of 71, Sontag was to liberal elitists what the Kama Sutra is to porn.
In her rage
Jan 4/05 -In her rage against the West, she displayed no complexity in simplifying the white race as pure evil, concluding that "the truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballets, et al., don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world.
Liberal Education Vs the Moral Education of Children
Some 2,400 years ago, Aristotle articulated what children need: clear guidance on how to be moral human beings. What Aristotle advocated became the default model for moral education over the centuries. He showed parents and teachers how to civilize the invading hordes of child barbarians. Only recently have many educators begun to denigrate his teachings.
Aristotle regarded children as wayward, uncivilized, and very much in need of discipline. The early Christian philosopher Saint Augustine went further, regarding children's refractory nature as a manifestation of the original sin committed by Adam and Eve when they rebelled against the dictates of God. Each philosopher, in his way, regarded perversity as a universal feature of human nature.
Aristotle compared moral education to physical training. Just as we become strong and skillful by doing things that require strength and skill, so, he said, do we become good by practicing goodness. Ethical education, as he understood it, was training in emotional control and disciplined behavior.
Habituation to right behavior comes before an appreciation or understanding of why we should be good. First, children must be socialized by inculcating into them habits of decency and using suitable punishments and rewards to discipline them to behave well. Eventually they will understand the reasons for and advantages of being moral human beings.
Far from giving priority to the free expression of emotion, Aristotle (and Plato too) taught that moral development is achieved by educating children
to modulate their emotions. For Aristotle, self-awareness meant being aware of and avoiding behaviors that emotion dictates but reason proscribes: "We must notice the errors into which we ourselves are liable to fall (because we all have different tendencies) ... and we must drag ourselves in the contrary direction." Children with good moral habits will gain control over the intemperate side of their nature and grow into free and flourishing human beings. As Aristotle put it, "The moral virtues ... are engendered in us neither by nor contrary to nature; we are constituted by nature to receive them, but their full development is due to habit.... So it is a matter of no little importance what sort of habits we form from the earliest age - it makes a vast difference, or rather all the difference in the world.
Frontpage Interview: Christopher Hitchens
Frontpage Interview
had the privilege of conducting the following discussion with Christopher Hitchens, author of the new book A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq, in an email correspondence.
Frontpage Magazine: Thank you for joining Frontpage Interview Mr. Hitchens. I’d like to begin with your intellectual journey. You were, at one time, a man of the Left and, if I am correct, a Trotskyist. What led you to this political disposition? It is often said that a lot of our personal psychology and character lead us to our political outlooks. When you look back, does this apply to you in any way? Tell us a bit about your attraction to the Left, Trotskyism, Isaac Deutscher, etc.
Alienation in A Time of War
More than a decade ago, Peter Collier and I wrote a book about Sixties radicals called Destructive Generation, which provoked — among other responses — one of the most savage attacks on us that anyone has written before or since. The author of this hit, Rick Hertzberg, is now a senior editor at the New Yorker and I mention this otherwise trivial fact in the interest of full disclosure since I am about to address his latest article, which is an attack on the Constitution, and eerily related to the original assault on Collier and myself.
That assault was inspired by a reference we made in our book to Michael Walzer, Hertzberg’s friend and the editor of the socialist magazine Dissent. In Destructive Generation, Collier and I suggested that a key to understanding the radical agendas of Sixties leftists could be found in the alienation they felt from their own heritage. We offered as an example a cover illustration for Ramparts, the radical magazine we once edited. The cover in question featured the photo of an all-American youngster holding the flag of the Communist Vietcong. The cover line said, "Alienation is when your country is at war and you want the other side to win." We linked this extreme statement what we thought was a more temperate version of the same sentiment, which Walzer had expressed. He had said that the only time he felt at home in Washington was when he went there to protest.
This was the trigger of Hertzberg’s attack. In his view, we had conflated Walzer — and by implication himself — with the hate-America, Vietcong-loving radicals of the New Left. To him, this was unfair, and even outrageous.
Lies, and More Lies, about America in the Korean War
LEFTWING CANADIANS can feel especially honored. They had their very own Dr. James G. Endicott, a Canadian United Church missionary, who waged a public crusade against the U.S. intervention in the Korean War in the early 1950s. Endicott became internationally known for fanning the flames to the charge -- made by the communists -- that the United States was using germ and chemical weapons in the Korean War. The charge was fanatically embraced by the international Left, which exploited the issue throughout its anti-American odyssey during the Cold War.
In 1999 Indiana University Press participated in a repetition of the communist charges by publishing Stephen Endicott’s and Edward Hagerman’s The United States and Biological Warfare. Stephen Endicott is Dr. James Endicott’s son. He has fervently continued his father’s work. He must be very proud of his father. And he should be. After all, Dr. Endicott greatly distinguished himself in 1952 by being awarded the Stalin Peace Prize.
And then there is the little problem of the revelations from behind the former Iron Curtain. In January 1998 the Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun reported findings from 12 Soviet Central Committee documents on biowarfare. They were subsequently translated and published by the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
The documents demonstrate the charges against the United States regarding the use of germ warfare in the Korean War were contrived and fraudulent. They confirm that Soviet advisors and Chinese field commanders invented the scenario of the American use of germ and chemical weapons. Soviet and Chinese officials instructed the North Koreans to make reality out of fantasy. The North Koreans, therefore, deliberately infected their own citizens with plague and cholera and then used their bodies to show the world the evidence of American use of germ and chemical warfare. Twenty-five captured American pilots were also tortured to sign ``confessions'' on this matter.
This charge against the United States was denounced by American officials from President Truman down. And now we know that the Americans were telling the truth.
Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American Family
Al and Tipper Gore
Henry Holt, 2002, 417 pages
The family, writes scholar James Q. Wilson, is the foundation of public life. As that foundation weakens, so does every structure built upon it. When the cultural framework sags, the foundation must be strengthened.
Wilson says that a family is the community formed by a monogamous, heterosexual union. Traditional marriage satisfies economic, biological, and social needs in ways that other relationships cannot. The traditional family is the safest place to raise children.
Not true argue Al and Tipper Gore in their recently publish book "Joined at the Heart." "There are all kinds of families - and no one has the right to tell you that yours isn't the right kind."
How Liberals Argue
November 25, 2002
A lot of times liberals, both small "l" and large, engage in arguments that have little validity and even they recognize the weaknesses in their points of view. But a common trait amongst those on the left is the feeling that only they have the right answers because they are the only ones who "care". As a result, they never let the truth get in the way of a good argument and they employ various methods in their attempt to defend what is sometimes indefensible.
A common method employed by liberals is to simply change the argument and argue something else.
Shoving Islam Down Johnny’s Throat
IMAGINE HAVING A DAUGHTER WHO IS IN GRADE 7 and one day she comes home with a burqa on and tells you that she is ready to become a suicide bomber.
Does this sound far-fetched and paranoid?
That’s what many people thought about the warnings of Conservatives when sex education started being taught in public schools. But now we have our youngsters in school being taught about essential things like “.”
I’d rather not extrapolate.
So did you know that our children are now having Islam shoved down their throats? There is now a middle school curriculum, mandated by the California Department of Education, which uses the textbook Across the Centuries (Houghton Mifflin) to indoctrinate 7th graders with Islam.
Every reference to Islam in Across the Centuries is positive -- and also based on the premise that the religion is the truth. The text doesn’t qualify anything by saying things like “Muslims believe.” Mohammed is the Prophet and that’s that.
Christianity, meanwhile, doesn’t fare so well in Across the Centuries. It’s painted in a totally negative light. The text makes numerous references, for instance, to how Christians have persecuted Jews. But for some reason there are no references to how Muslims have ever persecuted anyone. There is not even a word about how, in our own age, Pakistani Muslim soldiers raped a quarter of a million Bengali women in 1971 after they massacred 3 million unarmed civilians.
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Examining the Myths of the Vietnam War
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Stolen Valor
How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History
http://www.stolenvalor.com/
Vietnam EXPOWS is an organization of former prisoners of war from the Vietnam war.
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Microsoft XP Spying on You
Microsoft has programmed Windows XP to contact other computers and transfer information from the user's computer to the other computers:
a) If you have only three DVDs that your children watch sometimes on your home machine that is always connected to the Internet (through a broadband connection), you may not care that Microsoft knows when they watch them. If you seldom use the Windows XP help facility, you may not care that Microsoft is able to know the level of expertise of the people who use your computer.
However, if you are using Windows XP in a large corporation or a government, the fact that another organization believes that it can gather data from you may be completely unacceptable.
This article is support for your own investigation.
The Microsoft article tells how to disable the hidden downloading. However, the disabling is very time-consuming. Also, Microsoft has a history of using defect fixes and security fixes to change the operating system settings. This means that all the settings would need to be checked after every defect fix or security vulnerability fix.
Source: http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm
Article in Spanish http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft-es.htm
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