Here’s volume II of Chapin’s Inferno which is a series I just started doing. Essentially it is, and will be, a wandering cauldron of conservative analysis released over an indefinite period.
Here’s the link.
I have a feeling you guys will like this one. What I like about doing these is that I jump on different themes whenever I want to and hopefully reach people who don’t read at all–which is a large segment of the population.
Sorry, I just added the second one and don’t want to waste another post with it. Here’s the link:
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..It seems to me we just don’t hold women as accounteable as we do men…heres an example..
Barbara Mikulski affair: In 1990 ,then senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) made national headlines by citing the fact that women specific health research comprised only 14% of the NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTHS yearly budget..
She called it BLATANT DISCRIMINATION and led the successful campaign for the creation of the ORGANIZATION OF WOMENS HEALTH (OWH)..
What Mikulski and the media conveniently omitted was the fact that only 6.5% of the (NIH) yearly budget went to mens specific research, and the rest went to gender neutral studies.
So what happens to the men who were discriminated against to begin with, and now even more so???
Posted on December 27th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
There’s an inverse relationship between having ovaries and political talent. Men make better leaders, and the exceptions to that are rare.
Hillary is not one of the exceptions.
Posted on December 27th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Nice to put a voice to the face to the words. Well done Bernie, even with the archaic technology. And well done Mike for getting it up and on here. (it took me two hours to download - an indication of honour?)
I don’t go with the idea that ‘men’ make better leaders simply from my experience (and quite lot of study) which shows that maybe as few as 5% of men make good leaders even if 25% aspire. The vast majority, of course, could not lead a pack of boy scouts into a pub. ‘Men’ get a bit of a halo effect here, from the very few men that can and do lead.
There is very little known about the proportion of women who can, let alone do, lead. I suspect that a similar 25% aspire and a similar 5% could make it.
But I don’t have any issue with objecting to the claim that ‘women would make good leaders’ (let alone better ones). And to claim that women, because they are women, would make good leaders, is as daft as men saying the same thing about men.
Leadership is rare. Good leadership even rarer. Followers are plentiful. Some followers convince poor and incompetent leader-wannabees that they are sound when they are not.
Posted on December 29th, 2007 at 1:05 am
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