I don't know how you guys roll, but I generally bookmark things I find interesting and potentially blog-worthy. I always end up with more links than posts, and I figure it's a shame to just throw them away. Here are four quick bites for your Sunday..
Christopher Hitchens slams Noam Chomsky
Some of you may be only vaguely familiar with Noam Chomsky, that lecturing hero of the America-hating international left. Shunned here at home, he travels the globe with the grateful earnestness of one who has finally found credulous fools willing to listen to his 9/11 troofer nonsense. Euro-lefties and third-worlders eat up his contradictory message that "America deserved it" and "Osama didn't do it, maybe it was a neo-con Jewish conspiracy."
Hitchens focuses like a laser beam on the Chomskyite "cognitive dissonance" as he describes traveling in the Middle East and ...
"...meeting the hoarse and aggressive person who first denies that Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center and then proceeds to describe the attack as a justified vengeance for decades of American imperialism." (Slate)He proceeds to dismantle such America haters in a crisp, acerbic fashion. This is a good one to save for the 10th Anniversary of 9/11.
T Boone Pickpockets is at it Again
His Quixotic windmill plan flopped a few years back when we learned the windmills would be powered not by wind, but by billions in taxpayer funds whooshing into Pickens' pockets. Now he's back, this time with a different angle involving gas and hot air.
We should challenge all grand progressive projects with one question. Is it economically viable? If yes, then the private sector will jump at investing in it. End of story--No taxpayer money needed.
"Fair Trade" is a Crock
Dalibor Rohac provides a public service by exposing "Fair Trade" for the guilty liberal feel good scam that it is. Only a naive liberal could believe such fairy tales. If they think America's rich and powerful are rapacious, they should travel to the third world.
And the main benefit flows to fair-trade cooperatives -- groups of landowners, not laborers. The certification includes no incentives for the owners to pay higher wages to farmworkers, who tend to be poorer and more vulnerable. (NY Post - Dalibor Rohac)Newt's Operatic Flameout
And finally, Rich Lowry at National Review has the best take on Newt's latest flameout involving his characterizing the Ryan plan as "Rightwing social engineering." I love Lowry's vivid use of the language. I wish I could write like that...
Gingrich’s hesitation about the Ryan plan is understandable and shared by other potential GOP candidates. Only Gingrich, though, felt compelled to take a rhetorical flamethrower to the document endorsed by almost every House Republican.Have a happy Sunday!
He can’t help himself. Gingrich prefers extravagant lambasting when a mere distancing would do, and the over-arching theoretical construct to a mundane pander. He is drawn irresistibly to operatic overstatement — sometimes brilliant, always interesting, and occasionally downright absurd.(NRO - Rich Lowry)
