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Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
-- Daniel Webster
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Wednesday, June 16, 2004 :::
It's time to reboot my computer, which means I'm going to blog some things that I had intended to comment on but probably won't:- Last week, NRO suggested that if Kerry was going to be respectful of Reagan, he should rescind any positions in disagreement with Reagan. I think that's stupid. The worst thing I can say about Kerry's response to Reagan's death is that it surprised me.
- Also at NRO, Denis Boyles brings up the new notion from Old Europe that the Germans as a whole were victims of Hitler.
- Joanne Jacobs has tales of high school teachers getting in trouble for teaching. Incidentally, a friend native to Massachusetts told me she'd never heard of tenure for high school teachers -- I had never heard the concept until I came to Massachusetts. It's not clear to me whether we're both ignorant, or whether it's a school district by school district thing, or what.
- Instapundit has more tales of abuse by U.N. "peacekeepers" in Africa.
- A piece at the New Criterion posits:
Unlike the U.S., Spain failed to grasp the civilizational importance of its first national tragedy of the twenty-first century. Because of this failure, there will surely be more such tragedies visited upon Spain. At the moment when Spain most needed vigorous national discussion, her intellectual class failed her, and the students allowed themselves to be used as the proxies of demagogues. A frightened electorate had no power to resist the loudest solution on offer. All of this suggests that the terrorists did not err in selecting the weakest wildebeest of the herd. In decrying the attacks, not a few commentators have argued that the Spanish electorate allowed terrorists to become actors in Spain's political life. This is to miss the forest for the trees: the terrorists saw in Spanish society the volatility and fractiousness that is the precondition for terror's effectiveness, and they took advantage of it with the foreseeable political consequences.
::: posted by Steven at 6:28 PM
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