What I’m Reading: Things You Should Read, Too

There are only so many hours in a day, and I’ve got piles of laundary to wash, floors to clean, bread to bake, and windows to wash.  So, here’s what I’ve been reading but won’t have much time to comment on.

Todd Epp at South Dakota Watch shares a touching story about what Memorial Day means to him.  See, even liberals have hearts!

ShrinkWrapped takes on the modern left: “The Modern Left: A Marriage of Post-Modernism and Narcissism.” It’s a series in parts, and the first part examines how “correct” discourse is legitimized by the MSM and the academy: “If reality is only what the powerful construct then it follows that the powerful, in the service of a ‘greater good’, by virtue of their nobility of mien and elevated moral standing as champions of the oppressed, have the right and obligation to create a more congenial reality. The multiple attacks on ‘white male privilege’ follow from just such a political philosophy.”

In his article “Nostalgianomics,” Brink Lindsey (with the Cato Institute) examines how that privilege is created. Read it to learn about the Great Compression.

Bookworm (on American Thinker) writes about how to talk to a liberal. Good luck!

Michelle Malkin takes on the Sonia Sotomayor’s “compelling personal story.”  If Sotomayor’s compelling personal story (and her race) are enough to make her politically untouchable, then what about Clarence Thomas? (You might also want to read her article about the “Jihadi virus” in American prisons.)

More Sotomayor news. Sweetness and Light highlights the case against Judge Sotomayor: “Nearly all of them [her former clerks] acknowledged that Sotomayor is a presumptive front-runner, but nearly none of them raved about her. They expressed questions about her temperament, her judicial craftsmanship, and most of all, her ability to provide an intellectual counterweight to the conservative justices, as well as a clear liberal alternative.”

If you’ve been around this blog for long, you’ll know that Thomas Sowell is revered in my household. And his random thoughts columns are well worth reading.  From this current batch: “If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a ’stimulus,’ then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power.”

NRA news. Pro-gun bill in Illinois. Washington Times analysis about current gun politics.

Are you, too, enjoying the new, un-corked Dick Cheney? I am! Toby Harnden with the Telegraph outlines the ten Cheney punches that landed on Obama’s jaw. Number 9: “It’s worth recalling that ultimate power of declassification belongs to the president himself. President Obama has used his declassification authority to reveal what happens in the interrogation of terrorists. Now let him use that same power to show Americans what did not happen thanks to the good work of our intelligence officials.”

Dr. Laura tells you how to “get your marital flirt on.”

And, finally, for all you nerds: ‘Bad Astronomy’ writer assesses the astronomical accuracy the new Star Trek [BEWARE - spoilers ahead with that link].  I, too, was happy to see that a space film finally got the sounds right; namely, there isn’t sound in space.

Happy reading!