RightNation.US Blog (Chris Naron) v.2.0

Things Smart People are Expected to Believe

Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:17:08 GMT

It occurred to me while watching Dennis Miller's show that I need to amend my list of things that smart people are expected to believe. As it stands, the list includes: evolution as fact, global warming as an urgent problem, morality as relative to one's own point of view and FDR's New Deal as the solution to the Great Depression. Imagine the tattered state of my self esteem knowing that I don't believe in any of those things. Now, I have to add that when it comes to the "politics...

Preemptive �Passion� Primer

Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:00:46 GMT

Get ready for uncomfortable conversations with friends, coworkers, family members and complete strangers from whom there is no escape. One week from today, Mel Gibson will unleash his vision of the last twelve hours of the life of Jesus, and many of you are not looking forward to what�s going to happen as a result. Christians old and new are going to want to engage you in discussions about the meaning of the film and how you should see it, believe it and change your life as a result of it....

An Open Letter to a Guy With an Open Box of Twinkies

Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:19:26 GMT

Dear Michael Moore, Here's an idea: try expressing your inane thoughts in an essay like the rest of the opinion writing world. This letter-that-will-be-seen-by-a-bunch-of-people-other-than-the-person-it's-written-to is as tired a rhetorical vehicle as ending a weird story by making the whole thing a...

No Dog, No Car, No Grub, This Better be Good

Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:00:44 GMT

Update from Southern California and beyond: The "do-gooders" suffer from a type of myopia not seen in any human population other than Raider fans. Consider the fact that you can't get a free dog, drive a car or eat healthy without the crusaders for the public good getting in your face and turning it all into one big unnecessary hassle. With friends like them, who needs enemies? Here in sunny SoCal, it is cheaper to buy a dog from one of the local sales papers than it is...

Department of Crisis

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 03:36:28 GMT

Try to name as many cabinet level departments as you can. Did you come up with the State Department? The Defense Department? How about the Department of Education? Now ask yourself if there is a crisis going on related to that department's policy area. Liberals would certainly say there is a crisis in foreign policy--the State Department's turf. The Defense Department? WAR! THE PRESIDENT LIED! Yada, yada, yada. And, of course, there is always an education crisis. So what is...

What We Don't Say for the Sake of Civility

Mon, 09 Feb 2004 21:31:22 GMT

I don�t know about any of you, but I�m sick of liberals saying whatever they want without consequence while conservatives, who dutifully police one another anyway, get lambasted by the �mainstream� media. Therefore, I�m going to try my hand at vitriol, hyperbole, sophistry and good old fashioned demagoguery....

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

Sun, 08 Feb 2004 02:00:48 GMT

Economics cannot be separated from politics but politics can and should be separated from economics. Every activity in which we engage on a daily basis is an economic activity. Unless, of course, we sleep out under the stars naked and spend our waking ours hunting and gathering on un-owned land. So when the government takes it upon itself to plan, in whatever small way, the economy, that particular aspect of our lives becomes the realm of the government. A good example is the...

Iron Maiden and Mike Plew Rock!

Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:22:11 GMT

My good friend, Mike Plew, surprised me last night with tickets to Arch Enemy/ Iron Maiden. While at the gym, he asked if I wanted to go see a medieval exhibit at the...

Billy Jack Kerry Goes to Washington

Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:48:09 GMT

Time warp back to the 1970s, when the prototype of the perfect liberal action figure first hit the big screen. He was a Vietnam War veteran who came home changed. His road to self discovery was a profound New Age/Native American spiritual journey replete with visions of slapping Jesus in the face and doing a rain dance with a nest of rattlesnakes, and it resulted in a complete rejection of his country and its values. What...

The Three Legged Elephant

Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:54:56 GMT

In his book, The Intellectual Conservative Movement in America Since 1945, George Nash describes modern Conservatism as a three legged stool consisting of Libertarianism, Anti-Communism and Traditionalism. The political party through which these principles should be transmitted is the GOP....