This is my opportunity to introduce my friend David Bahnsen to Blue Kennel readers. I myself happened to be under the impression that before D”Souza relocated to NYC he was in fact attending an evangelical megachurch in San Diego. But […]
Month: November 2010
The Passive Aggressive Public
Joel Fox here reflects on the inconsistency that the people seem to oppose “higher taxes” but favor many well funded government services. His conclusion is that there has been a breakdown of trust in our leadership, not any move towards […]
Partido de Accion Nacional Norte
My suggestion: Shut down the Republican Party in California for four years, then launch a new political party to be called Partido de Accion Nacional Norte (PAN Norte). Depending on what position this party decided to take, I could probably […]
Rational consideration of “adaptation” for California…
Rational consideration of “adaptation” for California as well as merely quixotic attempts at “prevention.” A great book on this subject, about the British Isles, is Turned Out Nice by Marek Kohn. I don’t know of any equivalent volume of that […]
Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic finds…
Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic finds something actually positive in Schwarzenegger’s legacy. An achievement on Ambinder’s part. Read: “Judgement Day” by Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic
The Pro-Life Vivaldi
While being taken around to various churches in Venice looking at art – Italy may be working on the Separation of Church and State, but there isn’t much of a Separation of Church and Art – we happened to stumble […]
Back to the Nineties
The current election results are making us remember 1994, when also, under a Democratic President, and with health care issues in the air, the Republicans won control of the U S House of Representatives. I’m concerned with social issues, and […]
Jonathan V. Last, Part 2: Testing
I will discuss Mr. Last’s article again, for he also made an important point that I had never heard of before, and that had nothing to do with the land-use issues which Blue Kennel takes a great interest in. It […]
New Urbanism: Not Suitable for Large Families
Jonathan V. Last has written an excellent article on natality in America and why we have few large families now, whereas 50 years ago they were very common. (I can testify, being of a certain age myself, that I as […]