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Liberals have fired most of their
ammunition against the Confederate flag flying over
the South Carolina State House. Now they're calling
in their reliable second team: respectable conservatives.
William Buckley's NATIONAL REVIEW has been demanding
the flag come down since it got its latest editor,
Richard Lowry. Since he took over, NR has stopped
capitalizing the word "Southern."
NR's latest effort was a screaming piece called
"Rebels Yell," which caused at least one
Charlestonian to write them saying he was canceling
his subscription.
In other words, NATIONAL REVIEW has given up its
pretense of being a spokesman for the American right
nation-wide. It has always been a theocratic, east
coast magazine making a few gestures to others.
NR has simply given up the gestures.
David Broder, the token semi-conservative writer
for the Washington Post, has come out with an article
demanding that the flag come down. Like McCain,
his comment on Bob Jones ending its policy against
interracial dating was a kick in the teeth. Funny
how people who back down get no respect.
In other words, we have the usual formula: liberals
have screamed their lungs out on the flag issue,
so their second team has volunteered to earn its
"respectable" credentials again. Stabbing
other conservatives in the back is the main job
of respectable conservatives.
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A study shows that women with hands
that are shaped more like men's hands are more often
lesbian than those who don't have this feature.
This is statistical CORRELATION. This does NOT mean
that ALL women with man-like hands are lesbians.
It means that a few MORE of them are.
We have the same sort of general correlations with
IQ. Height CORRELATES with IQ. That is, the average
tall man is more intelligent than the average small
man. But Napolean was smarter than almost anybody.
Health also CORRELATES with IQ. People with better
brains TEND to have better health. But the greatest
expert on cosmology -- the physical nature of the
universe -- is confined to a wheel chair.
What really convinced me that this lesbian study
was valid was that a social scientist declared it
was "simplistic." Just about every time
a liberal social scientist says something is "simplistic"
it turns out to be right. It turns out that common
sense is right, and the liberal social scientist
can't stand that. Which is why they're always wrong.
Lesbianism is a male characteristic in a woman.
So are male-like hands. It makes sense they would
CORRELATE. Naturally, a liberal social scientist
has to say that any study which bears out common
sense can't be right.
Which is another way of saying that if common sense
is right, leftism is wrong.
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A question is growing in my mind that is also growing
in the mind of anyone who watches the TV show, "COPS."
That question: Can a real-life policeman of any color
really ignore race?
This question has grown with the shooting of unarmed black
men in New York City, where it went along with a successful
crackdown on crime.
A crackdown on crime means taking clues very seriously.
There is nothing illegal about being young. There is nothing
illegal about driving at 3 in the morning. There is nothing
illegal about driving very, very slowly on most city streets.
But if a policeman sees young people driving very slowly
at 3 am on a city street, he takes notice. Why? Because
of a CORRELATION. All young people driving slowly at 3
am in a city street are not breaking the law. But a lot
MORE people like that will be buying or selling drugs
or doing something else illegal than drivers in general.
Likewise, if someone pulls something out of his pocket
and points it at you on a city street in the dark, the
chances that it is a gun is simply a lot higher if that
person has black skin. If you are a lawyer for the ACLU,
it's easy to say skin color is irrelevant in a speech
in a nice safe courtroom. But if you are a cop on a dark
street you had damned well better know the difference.
This is terribly unfair to most black people who are not
lawbreakers. But it is also not the fault of the police.
As I explained on July 17, 1999, "Racial
Profiling Is the Fault of Black Criminals."
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On the issue of returning Elian Gonzalez to his father
in Cuba, both liberals and conservatives have been making
comparisons that are not applicable. Leftists point to
examples where the United States has returned children
to Syria, for example. They say Cuba is the same thing.
But mostly, of course, liberals are playing the race card.
They are saying returning immigrants to Jamaica or Haiti
is the same as this case in Cuba.
Conservatives who are against returning him to Cuba talk
about children in dictatorships and oppressive regimes
in general.
To my surprise, one conservative actually had the guts
to ask a black congresswoman who was demanding the boy
be returned whether she would ask the same thing if the
child had been a black refugee from South Africa in the
days of apartheid. She looked him straight in the eye
and lied that she would.
But even that is not fair to oppressive regimes in general.
There was no blockade to keep the general population inside
Franco's Spain or South Africa. No rightist regime ever
built a wall with machine gun towers to keep its people
in, as ALL Communist regimes must.
Certainly no black mother ever died getting her child
out of South Africa under apartheid. Blacks were free
to leave. Their only major problem with black population
movement was the massive flow of blacks INTO South Africa.
Castro announced that if all of the twenty-something people
he wanted to come to the United States were not allowed
in, he wouldn't allow any of them to come. He withdrew
that comment, but it was a good reminder that you only
get out of Cuba with special permission.
So after that, on CNN's Crossfire, a black congresswoman
said Elian should go back to Cuba and decide to leave
at thirteen or so if he wanted to. The pet conservative
on the show just sat there silent. This proved once again
that she has the room temperature IQ that is required
to be a respectable conservative.
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