What Glenn Beck is Doing

At Chicago Boyz, Lexington Green thinks he sees what Glenn Beck is doing:

Beck is creating positive themes of unity and patriotism and freedom and independence which are above mere political or policy choices, but not irrelevant to them. Political and policy choices rest on a foundation of philosophy, culture, self-image, ideals, religion. Change the foundation, and the rest will flow from that. Defeat the enemy on that plane, and any merely tactical defeat will always be reversible.

You may want to read Green's precursor to the post above. Both are thought provoking.

Great Dennis Prager Video

Below the fold is a video of Dennis Prager at the University of Denver. It's one of the best videos I've seen in a while despite being almost nine minutes long.

A New Declaration of Independence

Bill Whittle of PJTV is in the process of remaking Hollywood with his new venture: Declaration Entertainment. In the video above Bill provides a short introduction. His longer PJTV piece goes into more detail about why we need Declaration Entertainment and what the Declaration Entertainment vision is.

Rule of the Sophists

Victor Davis Hanson at Pajama's Media on Government by the Faculty Lounge:

Ambiguity in speech, not clarity was preferred; the ability to adduce ten different points of view was always considered superior to deciding on one. Tantrums, the occasional obscenity, the knife-in-the-back memo always assumed a sort of rule that such rascality never earned a punch in the face; the art was to be as cruel as possible without resort to violence. Yet when gut-check time came to vote openly yes or no and take the consequences, most voted present by skipping out or abstaining.

Thus we are now ruled.

Tea Parties vs Tea Parties

The WSJ on a meeting between Tea Parties and Tea Parties:

"I'm promoting tea parties -- just not that kind of tea party," says Bruce Richardson, who lives in Perryville, a village 45 miles southwest of here. For a living, he imports tea, publishes books about tea and teaches tea-brewing and tea-party proprieties.

Mr. Richardson wishes that tea-party politics were more polite, and also that tea could shake its rebellious associations.