TUESDAY ROUNDUP

Once again I list what I think were the best posts on my various blogs in the preceding week.

On Dissecting Leftism I show that conservatives are happy people

On Political Correctness Watch I note that even bread and cheese is bad for you in California

On Greenie Watch I note that Greenies claim that cooking potatoes is bad for you

On Education Watch I note that Indianapolis public schools have an enormous drop-out rate

On Socialized Medicine I note how a boy died while waiting for a much-cancelled operation

On Gun Watch I show that gun opponents are bullies

On Leftists as Elitists I show that Leftists think that they alone have any rights

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ELSEWHERE

There is a good article here on the way the media distort the results of public opinon polls -- always in the same direction, funnily enough. The author shows that filibuster and social security polls are being misrepresented at the moment. So this poll giving GWB low marks, is no surprise

Leftist professor thinks democracy is loopy: "Sunstein caused a good deal of grumbling by questioning the legitimacy of Roe v. Wade, and even went so far as to suggest that progressives should stop looking to the Warren Court and Brown v. Board of Education as their model for judicial intervention. Pamela S. Karlan, a Stanford law professor, was one of several at Yale who found that notion troubling. ''There are a lot of things that can't be done through the political system,'' she said in an interview. In the 1950s, it was impossible to get school desegregation through Congress, she said. ''The idea that we would have been better off waiting is, to me, kind of loopy.''"

There is a good reprise of the Tim Russert interview with Dippy Dr. Dean here. Will we be seeing the last of the mad doctor soon?

Red Cross virulently anti-American: "According to a Defense Department source citing internal Pentagon documents, the ICRC team leader told U.S. authorities at Camp Bucca: "You people are no better than and no different than the Nazi concentration camp guards." She was upset about not being granted immediate access shortly after a prison riot, when U.S. commanders may have been thinking of her own safety, among other considerations." [The Red Cross have never liked Jews much either. They ARE European, after all]

ETS (authors of the SAT) on the slide: "ETS, it appears, actually requires its employees to "Tolerate no incidents of discrimination or harassment," "Embrace diversity of thought," and "Report cases of discrimination or harassment directly to my Strategic Workforce Solutions consultant." The point of the ad? That ETS thinks it has to meet ethnic quotas in hiring in order to make ethnic interest groups feel comfortable with the idea of taking ETS's tests. Only black test authors can write questions for black test takers. Only "Latino" test writers can pose questions to "Latino" test subjects. And so forth. Boy, is it hard. Landgraf, or his ghostwriter, wails that "In the 2000-2001 academic year, U.S. universities conferred only about 500 doctorates in educational psychology, evaluation and measurement. Of these, only 18 percent came from underrepresented groups, and included many international scholars who later returned home to take up their profession"

Another Left activist sees the light: "I'm leaving the left -- more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time together. I choose this day for my departure because I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity with oppressed populations everywhere -- reciting all the ways Iraq's democratic experiment might yet implode. My estrangement hasn't happened overnight. Out of the corner of my eye I watched what was coming for more than three decades, yet refused to truly see. Now it's all too obvious. Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom.

Shrinks want homosexual marriage: "Representatives of the nation's top psychiatric group approved a statement Sunday urging legal recognition of gay marriage. If approved by the association's directors in July, the measure would make the American Psychiatric Association the first major medical group to take such a stance. The statement supports same-sex marriage "in the interest of maintaining and promoting mental health." It follows a similar measure by the American Psychological Association last year, little more than three decades after that group removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. The psychiatric association's statement, approved by voice vote on the first day of its weeklong annual meeting in Atlanta, cites the "positive influence of a stable, adult partnership on the health of all family members." "

There is a good review here of Keith Windschuttle's book on the history of Australian immigration policy. He mentions what you are rarely told today -- that the main support for the White Australia policy came from the Left.

For more postings, see EDUCATION WATCH, GREENIE WATCH, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, GUN WATCH, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE and LEFTISTS AS ELITISTS. Mirror sites here, here, here, here and here. And on Social Security see Dick McDonald

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That power only, not principles, is what matters to Leftist movers and shakers is perfectly shown by the 2004 Kerry campaign. They put up a man whose policies seemed to be 99% the same as George Bush's even though the Left have previously disagreed violently with those policies. "Whatever it takes" is their rule.

Leftist ideologues are phonies. For most of them all that they want is to sound good. They don't care about doing good. That's why they do so much harm. They don't really care what the results of their policies are as long as they are seen as having good intentions and can con "the masses" into giving them power.

The Big Lie of the late 20th century was that Nazism was Rightist. It was in fact typical of the Leftism of its day. It was only to the Right of Stalin's Communism. The very word "Nazi" is a German abbreviation for "National Socialist"

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