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william 3905 Wrote: Oct 20, 2012 2:16 PM
A quality may be both a virtue or a vice, depending upon how it is applied. Diversity of skills, for instance, is essential for a nation. But diversity of purpose weakens a nation. Take Japan. Japan has a diversity of skills and unity of purpose, buttressed by racial homogeneity. America, sadly, has less and less of any kinds of skills, & suffers from a metaphysical & moral vertigo that has all but annihilated the possibility of unity of purpose. But the American left sees diversity as yet another tool of social revolution and "change"–– yet another pretext for the enforcement of political correctness--a political correctness ironically meant to eliminate all diversity so that all that remains are the ideas & opinions of the left.
Random thoughts on the passing scene:

Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.

Economist Edward Lazear has cut through all of Barack Obama's claims about "creating jobs" with one plain and inescapable fact -- "there hasn't been one day during the entire Obama presidency when as many Americans were working as on the day President Bush left office." Whatever number of jobs were created during the Obama administration, more have...

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