7 Reasons Why Liberals are Incapable of Understanding the World

This article caught my attention because the author points out that liberals don't necessarily pay attention to the results of their programs or legislation, but to how these things make them feel or to their good intentions in passing the legislation. Banning DDT, for example - great for the environment, but millions of people have died as a result. Of course, I might say that many liberals think that we should reduce the population of the earth, and letting malaria have its way with millions is just one way of doing that....I might say that, but then I would be mean.

7 Reasons Why Liberals Are Incapable of Understanding The World

John Hawkins Townhall.com

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. — Charles Krauthammer

Even liberals who've accomplished a lot in their lives and have high IQs often say things on a regular basis that are stunningly, profoundly stupid and at odds with the way the world works. Modern liberalism has become so bereft of common sense and instinctually suicidal that America can only survive over the long haul by thwarting the liberal agenda. In fact, liberalism has become such a toxic and poisonous philosophy that most liberals wouldn't behave differently if their goal were to deliberately destroy the country. So, how does liberalism cause well-meaning, intelligent liberals to get this way? Well, it starts with...

1) Liberalism creates a feedback loop. It is usually impossible for a non-liberal to change a liberal's mind about political issues because liberalism works like so: only liberals are credible sources of information. How do you know someone's liberal? He espouses liberal doctrine. So, no matter how plausible what you say may be, it will be ignored if you're not a liberal and if you are a liberal, of course, you probably agree with liberal views. This sort of close-mindedness makes liberals nearly impervious to any information that might undermine their beliefs.

2) Liberals sources of information are ever present. Conservatives are regularly exposed to the liberal viewpoint whether they want to be or not. That's not necessarily so for liberals. Imagine the average day for liberals. They get up and read their local newspaper. It has a liberal viewpoint. They take their kids to school, where the teachers are liberal. Then they go to work, listen to NPR which has a liberal viewpoint on the way home, and then turn on the nightly news which also skews leftward. From there, they turn on TV and watch shows created by liberals that lean to the left, if they have any political viewpoint at all. Unless liberals actively seek out conservative viewpoints, which is unlikely, the only conservative arguments they're probably going to hear are going to be through the heavily distorted, poorly translated, deeply skeptical lens of other liberals.

3) Liberals emphasize feeling superior, not superior results. Liberalism is all about appearances, not outcomes. What matters to liberals is how a program makes them FEEL about themselves, not whether it works or not. Thus a program like Headstart, which sounds good because it's designed to help children read, makes liberals feel good about themselves, even though the program doesn't work and wastes billions. A ban on DDT makes liberals feel good about themselves because they're "protecting the environment" even though millions of people have died as a result. For liberals, it's not what a program does in the real world; it's about whether they feel better about themselves for supporting it.

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So, click on the title for the rest!

---Katie

This Year Keep Your Kids Home from College

Mike Adams describes four ways he thinks today's colleges and universities harm our children - spiritually, morally, intellectually and financially. A poster at Free Republic added psychologically (many kids leave college with psychological problems) and physically (one in four college students has an STD.)

Wouldn't it send a message to the mis-educators in our colleges and universities if we said to them that we were no longer willing to pay obscene amounts of money for them to rob our children of their faith and teach them to despise their parents' values?

If you think your child needs the "experience" of college, have you thought about what exactly that experience is, especially at a secular school? Is it worth thousands of dollars for your child to have a four year party?

Click on the title for the entire article.

---Katie

Welcome to the Department of Innovation

From a new blog sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution:

Seems a long time ago, but it was only back in January when Barack Obama told us that America had reached a “Sputnik moment.” He was referring to the competition with China to be the Big Dog of the 21st century global economy, but the subtext was that the country needs an attitude adjustment, that we need to start channeling Silicon Valley, a place where people may pledge to “Do no evil” but the true religion is innovation.

It made for one fine sound bite. But it hasn’t exactly inspired a bunch of innovation rallies and bake sales. So in the spirit of banging the drum for new ideas and fresh thinking, this blog will track all things innovative, not just in science and technology, but also in how we live, how we learn, how we entertain ourselves.

The Department of Innovation is about people and ideas that likely will shape the way we will live one day. Don’t hesitate to send in suggestions of subjects we should cover.

You can learn more about me on our About page.

Now check out their logo...look very carefully at the image....




Is it any wonder we are in trouble in this country? I don't expect they will be exploring innovation in education that looks at methods outside government schooling.

---Katie

Or We Could Call Them Flash Crime Mobs....

Now a new threat to retailers and the public alike has emerged – flash crime mobs.

Check out this article about how flash mobs are morphing into "flash crime mobs." What will you do if you get caught in the middle of something like this?

Click on the title!

---Katie

Flash Mobs vs. Flash Robs

Last year, a new phenomenon appeared on the American landscape. Groups began gathering at malls and other places where people congregate to do something unusual, often uplifting. (Click on the title to see an example.) We called them flash mobs and enjoyed watching them on YouTube. This year, we have a new phenomenon that the media insists on calling flash mobs as well. Large groups of urban youth gather either at a retailer of some sort or at some location or event where people are trying to enjoy their leisure time. At a retailer they create a commotion and steal as much as they can before racing out of the establishment, while at other locations, they attack and abuse people of other races. I propose that we continue to call the positive, uplifting groups like the one linked in the title "flash mobs," while referring to the other, negative, racist occurrences "flash robs," since even if they are not gathering for the purpose of stealing, they are still robbing us of our sense of community, safety and well-being. If you would like to know more about "flash robs" check out this link:

---Katie

What?!? The Union Owns the Insurance Company

that insures the teachers in Wisconsin? Now that makes this situation much more understandable. The union does not want to lose the right to bargain over benefits because they will lose the right to continue to soak the Wisconsin public schools with an expensive health insurance plan. I guess the adage is true - follow the money!

---Katie

Quote from the article:

WEA Trust, a union-affiliated insurance company, has an unfair advantage in Wisconsin’s public school insurance market, and uses that advantage to soak every penny possible from local school coffers.

Click on the title!

I'll Pray for You

Have you heard this song?

I pray your brakes go out running down a hill
I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill and knocks you in the
head like I'd like to
I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls
I pray you're flying high when your engine stalls
I pray all your dreams never come true
Just know wherever you are honey, I pray for you.

Our pastor used that as the springboard for a sermon about how we are supposed to pray for one another and how we are supposed to see one another, really. The congregation got a kick out of the song - we can all identify with those feelings toward people who have hurt us or whom we find difficult. But the point of our pastor's sermon was not just that we are to pray for all those difficult people in our lives. We are also to pray for ourselves - that we will come to see these difficult people as He does, as his precious children that he died for.

Peace!

Katie

Why I Changed My Mind about Unions

I found this article by Michael Filozof from The American Thinker interesting because I entered adult life believing the mantra "Unions Good, Management Bad!" I can remember Andy looking at me like I was crazy when I made some positive comment about unionization. Ah, the wonders of government school indoctrination! (Parents, if your kids are in government schools, please take the time to teach them the truth about our constitution and economics!) The problem with unions today rests with the public sector unions - the government really is not likely to go bankrupt; it will keep borrowing and sticking it to the taxpayers to pay for the ever increasing costs of benefits for unionized government workers. And if we dare to try to stop the ever-accelerating spiral of spending and debt, they will engage in protests with the threat of violence to maintain that which they believe we owe them. Just look at what is happening in Wisconsin.

Here is the conclusion of the article:

As Sen. Barry Goldwater observed in Conscience of a Conservative, the First Amendment guarantees freedom of association for union members. But "[e]mployers are forbidden to act collusively for sound reasons. The same reasons [should] apply to unions...Let us henceforth make war on all monopolies -- whether corporate or union. The enemy of freedom is unrestrained power" -- whether it be unrestrained management power or unrestrained union power.

If the fiscal conservatives fail in Wisconsin, we all may be doomed to slavery to the public sector unions. We in the private sector will be on the hook for government employee six-figure pensions that they did not have to pay into like we did. We all have had to make cuts and lifestyle changes because of the economic crisis we have been facing for the last several years. Government must cut too, and that means breaking the power of the public sector unions. Watch Wisconsin...your state may be next.

Click on the title to read the entire article.

The Needless Lack of Self-Confidence of Most Home-Schooling Mothers

Hi everyone!
Sorry it has been so long, but I have an interesting article to share with you! Here is an excerpt:

Today, there is a generation of home-school mothers who began three decades ago, and whose grandchildren are now being home schooled by their daughters. With the new digital media, you might think that there would be dozens of detailed, step-by-step curriculum programs for sale or for free. Yet Dr. Arthur Robinson's was the first purely digital curriculum. It is delivered on CD-ROMs. He created it because his wife died unexpectedly, and he had to develop a self-taught curriculum. He was running a sheep ranch, a biological research organization, and was the publisher of the newsletter, Access to Energy. He had no time to teach his six children using the labor-intensive, mother-run programs.

So, two men without experience have developed comprehensive programs. Why men? The barrier to entry is not money. The monetary cost of creating and delivering a digits-based program is basically free.

My conclusion: home school mothers lack self-confidence.

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Needless to say, I disagree with Dr. North's assertions and e-mailed him to let him know what I thought of his article. He doesn't particularly like e-mails that disagree with him and suggested that I blog about it. So, here is his article. You know the drill, click on the title to read the entire article! And if you want to engage Dr. North in discussion, well, he doesn't like angry e-mails and he doesn't let the public comment on his website without being a paid member....

I guess we could discuss it here....

Peace,
Katie