by Henry Oliner | Jan 28, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
from The City Journal, Trump and the American Divide by Victor Davis Hanson: Language is also different in the countryside. Rural speech serves, by its very brevity and directness, as an enhancement to action. Verbosity and rhetoric, associated with urbanites, were...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 9, 2016 | Politics
If I could pick one word to describe the upset it would be the word ‘contempt’. This was a Brexit election, a revolt against the elites, but the problem is not elites. The founding fathers were elites and a large complex nation and economy will require...
by Henry Oliner | May 28, 2016 | Politics, Progressivism
The dark side of pragmatism is not obvious to most people. Like so many terms its application and meaning in the private sector can alter greatly when applied in the public realm. But changing reality while being numb to principles can easily lead to ends justifying...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 2, 2015 | Global Warming
from American Thinker, Paul Shlichta writes Two Approaches to Climate Change. Excerpts: Our climate depends on two convective systems: one in the shell of gas we call the atmosphere and the other in the layer of water we call the oceans. Both are extremely...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 17, 2014 | Health Care, Politics
From Jonah Goldberg in Townhall, Jonathan Gruber Should’ve Been Time’s Person of the Year For similar reasons, I think Time missed an opportunity in not putting Gruber on the cover. Tea partiers and Wall Street occupiers disagree on a great many things,...
