Author: Redactor

Today

UK Death Penalty

On November 9, 1998, the death penalty was abolished on all crimes other than murder in the United Kingdom. Murder had already been disallowed from a capital punishment since 1965, and no executions in Great Britain had occurred since that time. But the new law formalized the anti-capital punishment stance.

The idea of reinstating capital punishment has been tried numerous times in England since then, but revelations of false convictions for murder since 1965 have helped put the kibosh on such plans.

links

Townhall: One or Two or . . . Free

Post author By Redactor
Post date November 8, 2015
No Comments on Townhall: One or Two or . . . Free

The change in China’s one-child rule policy demanded a Townhall.com. So click on over, and then come back here, for more reading.

And tell your friends and . . . enemies!

CNN: China’s One-Child Policy to End
National Geographic: How China’s One-Child Policy Backfired Disastrously
Mei Fong’s website: Book – One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment
FEE: China’s One-Child Disaster
China’s New Two Child Policy Will Not End Forced Abortion or Gendercide
The Spectator: The brutality of China’s one-child policy is still shocking
Sky News (YouTube): Forced Abortion to Meet China’s One Child Policy
EWTN: Chapter 50 — Forced Abortion: Anti-Life Dream for the World
YouTube: Vice-President Biden at Sichuan University
The Conversation: China’s one-child policy helped women make a great leap forward – so what now?
LA Times: China’s population and economy are a double whammy for the world

Thought

Virginia Woolf

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

Virginia Woolf, The Leaning Tower (May 1940)

video

Video: George Will on Money in Politics

Post author By Redactor
Post date November 7, 2015
1 Comment on Video: George Will on Money in Politics

George F. Will has been a major defender of free speech against the campaigns for “campaign finance reform” for a long time. Here he makes his case concisely, with animation from PragerU:

Thought

H. L. Mencken

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

H. L. Mencken, Women as Outlaws, The Smart Set (December 1921)

Thought

Virginia Woolf

“Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. Any help we can give you must be different from that you can give yourselves, and perhaps the value of that help may lie in the fact of that difference.”

Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas (1938)

Thought

Will Rogers

“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”

Will Rogers, “The World Tomorrow,” The Illiterate Digest, 1924

Thought

Virginia Woolf

“Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”

Virginia Woolf, On Not Knowing Greek

Thought

Jean-Paul Sartre

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

Jean-Paul Sartre, L’être et le néant (Being and Nothingness), 1943, Hazel Barnes, translator

Thought

Sinclair Lewis

“I hate your city. It has standardized all the beauty out of life. It is one big railroad station — with all the people taking tickets for the best cemeteries.”

Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, 1922