From the Department of Duh
comes this breaking news story from The New York Times:Young Americans Are Leaning Left, New Poll Finds
The Times needed to consult a poll to find out this piece of “is it news if everyone knows it”? Sheesh!
As far back as the 1700s there was a quote “not to be a liberal at 20 is proof of lack of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of lack of head”.
Heck, even I was a liberal in my 20s, and that was a few decades ago. Why is the NYTimes just now making this shocking discovery?
Everything I Know I Learned In Kindergarten
Which is why I hope no tax dollars were spent on Robert Putnam’s study of diversity called Bowling With Our Own.
According to Putnam’s five year study of diversity, in places ranging from LA to rural South Dakota, immigration and ethnic diversity have a devastating effect on social capital, fabrics of associations, trust and neighborliness that create and sustain communities. In other words, the more diverse the neighborhood, the less residents trust neighbors.
Well, duh! You don’t need to be a Harvard political scientist to know that all kinds of people prefer being with their own kind. Any rational observer would know this from personal experience.
Go to the link and read the whole thing, it’s really interesting and is counter to all we have been lead to believe by the left about the supposed benefits of diversity.
But aside from the “don’t tell us what we already know” aspect of this study, the most interesting thing is Putnam’s hysteria about the effect this might have on the immigration debate. What to think about an academic who is afraid to release information because it might help your enemies? Um, not much.
But I’m thinking Putnam is more fearful of being kicked out of the Church of Liberalism as a heretic for publishing something that counters one of it’s most sacred pillars—-diversity.
“Sheets” Finally Gets One Right
Senator Robert Byrd (D-KKK) released this statement concerning the Immigration Reform bill: “…no matter how much lipstick they put on this bill, it is still amnesty, and I will oppose it.”
All The News That Fits
The CIA recently released 702 heavily redacted pages of documents from the l950-l970 era, which they call “the family jewels.”
The New York Times had an article about these “jewels” and if all you knew about the CIA was what you read in the Times, you would think Richard Nixon was the only POTUS that ever used the CIA to his benefit.
No Democrats are mentioned until the 21st paragraph, and that LBJ used the CIA to spy on the anti-war movement.
While the Times admits that our government has been spying on the public for decades and didn’t start with George Bush, they leave out the juicy stuff about the Kennedys.
Among other things, Jack and Bobby Kennedy spied on Martin Luther King, Jr., they authorized various assassination attempts on Castro, they had serious mob ties, yet the Times never considers that this might be important or even interesting information worth sharing.
When liberals like Dick Durbin, Dianne Finestein and Dennis Kuchinich claim they want to bring back The Fairness Doctrine (sic) because they want Americans to hear both sides of the story, they aren’t thinking about The New York Times.
A Question For Those Who Possess a Y Chromosome
Q: What do you do when someone makes snarky remarks about you?
A:Send your wife out to beg them to stop.
UPDATE: When you’re a POTUS candidate and the deadline for the second quarter is drawing to a close and you need a serious infusion cash, who you gonna call—-ANN COULTER!
