Right On! Blog

Dr. Laura is one of my favorites, and this article on children and their lack of respect and discipline is a major theme of her talk shows. 

These children are telling us loud and clear what I’ve been saying for years. There is no nanny or daycare center in the world that can be to a child what their mother ought to be ? what they expect, need, want and deserve in a relationship with their mothers! Motherhood is such a critically important, exalted, revered and gratifying calling. How did women allow themselves to become so brainwashed and to stay that way even after they have experienced the miracle of birth and the utterly unique, intense pleasure that comes from relationships with one’s children?

Her message is NOT politically correct, and is definitely counter the liberal thrust of today’s Western culture.  No one is raising their own kids anymore, and the Liberal government is eager to take kids from their parents and indoctrinate them early on (as layed out in their throne speech today.

Talking to my wife’s cousin’s wife, a kindergarden teacher, I learned that even four year olds are out of control, and are ready to “sue if you touch me”.  Their lack of repect for authority is one reason we are losing so many good teachers, who are tired of disciplining instead of teaching.

From the National Post last week, a great cartoon…

Who said Right On! was purely political?  We believe in all issues dear to the right, and one is decentralization (which could be classified more as libertarian).

Computer prognosticator Nicholas Negroponte has an article on the evolving telecommunication field.  Its main thrust is that small operators will soon overtake central planning and scheming of the behomoth Bells.

EVERYTHING you assumed about telecommunications is about to change. Large wired and wireless telephone companies will be replaced by micro-operators, millions of which can be woven into a global fabric of broadband connectivity.

Big business can be as dangerous as big government!

An interesting article in the Partisan Review notes the rise of Islam in Western Europe.  This is instructive for Canada, as our Left Elite Ruling Class want us to grow up to be Europeans one day.

The author tells us that speaking up against the anti-freedom Islamofascists is no different than speaking up against Nazism.  Doing so is not racism either, as our ruling class would lead us to believe.

The good news is that ordinary Western Europeans are beginning to recognize all this. They are also coming to realize some crucial truths. Fundamentalist Islam is not a race or an ethnicity; it is an ideology. Its critics are not racists, any more than critics of Nazi or Stalinist ideology are racists. And as an ideology, furthermore, Islamic fundamentalism is something that people can be drawn away from.

Salman Rusdie, the (in)famous British Muslim author, to whom a fatwa was issued, opined on CBC last night that change in attitude of the Muslim community must come from within.  It especially will be changed by the females, who currently have few rights under current Islamic rulers.  Until then, the strict interpretation of the Koran by its radical leaders will rule the day, with all its exteme implications for a free Western society.

Finally, these immigrants must be thought of?and must be encouraged to think of themselves?as full and equal members of the societies in which they live. European natives must appreciate what an accomplishment it is for people to become functioning members of societies radically different from the ones in which they were born. Those who do make the adjustment successfully deserve the utmost respect.

There’s been much discussion in the Toronto media about tent city, a squat on Home Depot’s contaminated land near downtown.  The Star has a good article on the squalid place and its inhabitants.  Although the Star’s agenda is to constantly confiscate and redistribute wealth via high taxes, it’s clear that the anarchists living on other people’s private properties have no time for the socialist agenda.  They simple want to be left alone - and even understand the need to self-sustain instead of becoming addicted to the socialist teat.

To wit,

Later, as advocates for the homeless tried to convince Tent City residents to march on City Hall, Eddie leaned against a police car and laughed.

“For these guys it’s all okay. They’re using us for their political rallies. Now we’ve got no food to eat, and no place to sleep, but they’ve got themselves a great protest.”

It’s a shame that Home Depot didn’t put up a large fence earlier, as lawlessness begets lawlessness until it gets out of control.  Kudos to them for at least putting a stop to it, as late as they left it.

As usual, the public is sold a bill of goods without all the info.  The latest Kyoto-esque mantra is the fact that ethanol is the be all and end all saviour fuels.  It may burn cleaner at one end, but the production of it costs far more in emissions than it saves.  Lawrence Solomon of the Post writes on this topic.

The poor also suffer from ethanol, which draws corn away from farmers’ fields that would otherwise produce corn for human or animal consumption. The resulting shortfall raises the cost of feeding chickens and livestock, in turn raising the cost of basic foods such as meat, milk, and eggs.

With losers all round, who backs the government programs that feed ethanol? Not surprisingly, the funding comes from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, a federal department that answers to farmers and food processors, and to no one else.

Terence Corcoran of the Post writes about the impeding disaster of the Soviet-Style Kyoto plan the government is ramming down our throats. 

Most Canadians don’t have a clue what’s hitting them/about to hit them.  They buy into the junkscience that Canadians are big polluters and are causing global warming and climate change. 

Already industry is stopping investment:

Last week, TrueNorth Energy said it was putting investment in an oil sands project on hold pending Ottawa’s Kyoto plan. More such decisions, announced and unannounced, are inevitable. Kyoto’s backers like to downplay investment, job and growth losses as either too small to worry about or well worth the cost. Colleague Andrew Coyne, in a column last week, dismissed the possible losses in competitiveness by pointing out that we have “an insurance policy” known as the floating Canadian dollar. If Kyoto does trash investment and competitiveness, don’t worry. “If we couldn’t compete with a 64-cent dollar, we surely could at, say, 58 cents.”

The financial world will not wait for the full-blown Kyoto plan to get out of the Canadian dollar. New investment, the lifeblood of economic growth and job creation, will start to dry up long before Ottawa tries to impose any master plan to deliberately slow economic development. It’s already started.

When will Canadians wake up to this impending disaster?

As usual, the media tends to misrepresent the story.  Recently, Southerners were portrayed as ignorant racists for tagging the three doctors in training as suspicious.  Ann Coulter writes…

So Three Arabs Walk Into A Bar …

AN AMERICAN CITIZEN overheard three Muslims at a Shoney’s restaurant laughing about Sept. 11 over breakfast.

“If people thought Sept. 11 was something, wait till Sept. 13.”

“Do you think that will bring it down?”

“Well, if that won’t bring it down, I have contacts. I’ll get enough to bring it down.”

Patriot Eunice Stone took down their license plate numbers and called the police as the mirthful Muslims left. (I’d give you the names, but they’re too complicated. There’s a reason they use numbers at Guantanamo.) Despite the racist hysteria sweeping the nation, the police did not rush out and start rounding up Arabs. They interviewed Stone in person to evaluate her credibility and corroborate her story.

While it’s true that getting a higher education can lead to greater prosperity, it’s equally true that not promoting alternate life courses for children is detrimental to their futures.  Education, like health, is one of those bottomless pits that doesn’t improve in proportion to its increased funding.  It’s too bad the intelligensia doesn’t realize this and actively promote other life paths such as apprenticeship and subsequent employment.  A reader of Toronto’s Liberal Star wrote a good letter to this effect.

To suggest that because most people availing themselves of the lavish Canadian welfare net do so out of desperation at their lack of a university degree misunderstands the nexus between the availability of welfare benefits and their abuse. Welfare is oversubscribed in Canada more because it is easy to obtain and guaranteed for life than because the Canadian economy demands such a well-educated workforce that mere high school graduates have no opportunities.

The Center for Security Policy has a good article on how Colin Powell is once again undermining a President named George in the White House.

In recent months, Powell, now the secretary of state, has reverted to form. He has campaigned inside the administration of the current President Bush, in public and through proxies, for the president to give Saddam one more chance. Framing the issue in terms of Iraq’s non-compliance with 16 United Nations resolutions led inexorably to the logic that President Bush could safely go to the U.N. and seek its approval for action against Saddam.

Appeasement will never work.  It’s time the US removed Powell, and then went on to remove Saddam. 

History should not be allowed to repeat itself, even 10 years later.

History repeats itself - and it we don’t learn from it, including its success stories - then we are doomed to repeat its failures.  A good article speaks to this issue:

The Heritage Foundation: Press Room: Commentary: Adolf, Fidel & Saddam

Adolf Hitler was a joke. At least that’s how it seemed in the late 1930s, when I was in high school.

Newsreels showed a strutting popinjay; the soothing voice-overs made fun. Everyone knew that Germany was too poor to pose a threat to anyone. Reports of a “secret” air force and submarine fleet? Media hype. Anyway, it was far away. Someone else’s problem.

Lawrence Soloman, one of my favorite writers (not sure if he left or right wing, actually), has written interesting stuff on energy deregulation. 

Power to the people/Rooftop power plants, growing in popularity in the U.S., may mean an end to brownouts, fluctuating prices and many large-scale power generators.

Rooftop power plants, growing in popularity in the U.S., may mean an end to brownouts, fluctuating prices and many large-scale power generators

Rooftop power plants are sprouting in California, a state that has suffered from volatile power costs and electricity shortages, and before the end of the year, they’ll be sprouting in New York and New Jersey. By the end of next year, they may have come to electricity-challenged Ontario, where another botched deregulation is leading to wildly fluctuating prices, brownouts and threats of California-style rolling blackouts.

The power plants—pioneered by a new California company called RealEnergy—do more than provide security for their customers against power interruptions. They can also lower energy costs and dramatically slash environmentally harmful emissions. If economics, rather than politics, determines the future of these new plants, they will put many if not most large-scale generating plants out of business.

The exciting part of this is the fact that monopolies will not be able to exist in the power market.  Once individuals get more power to control their own destinies and economies, more innovation can occur. 

Now, if we can just get some other monopolies busted up: education and health for examples.  They have begun huge, unwieldy colossi that consume money and become more inefficient as the become bloated.

Andrew Coyne wrote a good article on how Chretien seeks to blame the US for the world’s woes, much like Hitler blamed the Jews for bringing problems upon themselves.

‘For me, I think the Jews were a bit too selfish, and that there was a lot of resentment. You know, you cannot exercise your powers to the point of humiliation for the others. And that is what the Jews have to realize.

“And I do think that the Jews were getting to be too rich in relation to the poor. And, necessarily, they looked upon the Jews as being arrogant, self-satisfying, greedy and with no limits. And Kristallnacht is an occasion for me to realize it even more.”

Chretien continued his linking of poverty to terrorism at the UN today.  His fellow left-wing nut Collenette blamed the demise of the USSR to unfettered US imperialism, which in turn causes terrorism.  Amazing logic: 

Collenette himself showed little signs of restraint, telling the CBC that the collapse of the Soviet Union had removed an important check on U.S. foreign policy.

“There will be people in the United States sort of emboldened by their new source of unfettered power to—in an (ice) hockey term—get their elbows up,” he said.

So do these two have any new ideas as to what to do?  Shall we give up more of our income here in the west and turn it over to third world stooges, who simply put it in their Swiss bank accounts?

Recently, Chretien was blathering on about how the West was insensitive and arrogant, and this led to the demise of the WTC and 3000 people.  Blogger Cosmo on LGF said that Chretien is one of those socialist elites

…who’ve bought into the zero-sum notion that some are poor BECAUSE others are rich, that the failure of some is directly related to (or caused by) the success of others.

This is one of the credos of socialists everywhere.  They cannot fathom that wealth can beget more wealth by more people. 

This is a difficult notion for a leader of one of the most taxed societies on earth.  In Canada, the more you make, the more that is confiscated from you.  It’s a system that leads to less productivity in the end, and an exodus to lower taxed jurisdictions.