Blogcritics Author: Mark Edward Manning

News Demonstrates The Predictable Result of Allowing The Feckless and Feral to Fornicate

Mark Edward Manning — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:23:28 EST

When we encourage the feckless and the feral to breed, the torture and killing of their offspring should be easily predicted.
If you knew nothing about Britain and went by what you read in the current headlines over here, you might very well conclude that the neglect, beating, torture and even killing of young children was as much a British tradition as high tea.We have the recent case of the single mother whose two young boys died in a house fire that they may have...

Anti-War Ignorance and Disrespect, British-Style

Mark Edward Manning — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:04:27 EDT

If the British want to be British, why are they mimicking infantile American behavior circa 1972?
It seems to me that anti-war sentiment in this country -- the U.K. -- has gotten completely out of bounds. First we had Royal Air Force personnel being abused in the streets for daring to wear their uniforms into town on errands. (To be fair to Gordon Brown, he tried to quell the backlash at the time.) Then the National Teachers Union wanted to...

Study: Why Conservatives Can't Be Clowns

Mark Edward Manning — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:34:42 EDT

A university study concludes that conservatives are more easily spooked. What does it say about them, and liberals?
This shouldn't entirely come as a huge surprise, but a study by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln concluded that conservatives are more easily spooked by gory images and startled by loud sounds than are liberals.In other words, just burst a balloon behind someone's back. If they jump three feet in the air, they're conservative. If...

Thoughts on Sarah Palin

Mark Edward Manning — Mon, 8 Sep 2008 02:21:35 EDT

Sarah Palin and I have much in common. So just why do I consider her a letdown and disappointment?
First things first: Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota was inspirational and dead-on-target. She spelled out a lot of what I believe in: deriding the idea of dialogue with Iran, stipulating that America must start providing itself with its own native sources of fuel, emphasizing the strong possibility of...

The "Freedom Cage": The Ulitmate Litmus Test For Lefties?

Mark Edward Manning — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:05:53 EDT

The "freedom cage" at the DNC in Denver warns against Barack Obama. Only serious Leftists admitted.
There's something at the Democratic National Convention in Denver called the "freedom cage," and some of the rhetoric spouted from within is decidedly anti-Obama in nature."[D]on't put all your hopes in Obama," said one Adam Jung, an organiser with the Tent State University protest group. "He's not an anti-war...

London 2012 Puts Me In Mind Of The Fall Of Rome

Mark Edward Manning — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:47:02 EDT

Sports, consumerism, corporations and celebrities all conspire to become the ultimate opiate of the masses via the Olympics.
I went to the medieval English city of Lincoln yesterday afternoon, and it was a pretty nice day, except for when I decided to visit the Lloyds Bar pub in town. The drinks and food were good and so were the surroundings, but on the TV they were showing the closing ceremonies for the Beijing Olympics and the start of the celebrations for the...

Georgia: It's All About Oil

Mark Edward Manning — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:02:11 EDT

A nation goes to war, largely for oil and irredentist imperialism, and the Stop The War crowd is silent. Go figure.
Let's see here ... Russia storms into Georgia, an independent country to which it never had any claim -- Russia annexed it in 1801 -- and lays waste to entire communities of innocent civilians.If this were all about South Ossetia, then what the hell was the bombing of Gori and Tbilisi all about? Why bomb apartment buildings? And why, pray...

It's Better to Bury Ash Than Trash

Mark Edward Manning — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:59:30 EDT

When environmentalists oppose incinerators, just what other options are they leaving society for dealing with its waste?
It appears as though protests lodged by environmentalists against plans to build an incinerator in the southern England county of Sussex have been rejected by the High Court.Good!Sometimes I honestly have cause to wonder just what these enviro-types put in their tea. Have they thought out their objection to waste incinerators...

What Part of "No" Does The European Union Not Understand?

Mark Edward Manning — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:17:37 EDT

Will the European Union take Ireland's "no" vote on the Lisbon Treaty seriously? Probably not.
Voters in Ireland rejected the European Union treaty, 53 to 47 percent, on Friday. Ireland was the only European country to be allowed a referendum vote on the proposed charter, known as the Lisbon Treaty.The Lisbon Treaty is virtually the same as the EU Constitution that was rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005.Yet the European Union is...

No Dogs, Irish or Short-Asses Need Apply

Mark Edward Manning — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:17:37 EDT

Is John McCain too short to be President? A non-American observer of American politics thinks so.
It's one thing to argue that John McCain is too old, too liberal, too conservative (if you're an Obama supporter), or has too many health problems to be President.It takes a massive load of chutzpah, however, to assert that McCain is unqualified to be President because he's too short. Yet, that's what Marion McKeone, an Irish...