Links and Minifeatures 2008 03 03 Monday

Carnival of Real Estate

Carnival of Personal Finance

Victor Davis Hanson

It is a cop-out to say George Bush caused all these problems. They loom large mostly for two reasons. One, the United States promotes global democratic capitalism, and our military ensures international free commerce in the air and on the seas. This bothers regional dictators and terrorists eager to carve out their own spheres of influence, regardless of who's sitting in the Oval Office.

It's nice to read analysis written by an adult.

I'm not going to embed this video, because the language and imagery are definitely not family friendly. Wizbang posted a video of a so-called "peaceful" protest in Berkeley. Be warned if you go view it that it is definitely Not Safe For Work or a family environment.

For those of you on the left: I'd be working to restrain this sort of thing if I were you. Today, Republicans are tarred by association with everything that was done to resist integration in the South - and it wasn't even Republicans, but Southern Democrats that did it. I don't believe that all of those on the left can possibly be so scared of their political opposition that they need to threaten, intimidate, and even physically abuse those who would debate them.

The civil rights marchers of the fifties and sixties won because they refused to become violent or intimidating, and appealed to that which was decent in their fellow Americans. They insisted upon being civil and nonviolent. Even a Klansman in full regalia would quite likely have been safe, even surrounded by them. That doesn't appear to be the case here. I strongly doubt that MLK would be standing with these people.

If you don't want to be tarred with the same brush, take steps now to disown these people, because it appears to be only a matter of time until they do something so barbarous that it enters the lexicon much like the murderers of Medgar Evers

I doubt this is a coincidence: At U. of California, a Systemic Governance Crisis