“Dangerous ideas”

Thanks to Jamie Glazov for the interview in Frontpage.com. And a FP commentor gives us a twist on Confucius: “Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you will not have to listen to his incessant whining about how hungry he is and demanding you give him more fish every day.”

More on conservative missteps in the past few years: 

It must be added that many conservatives are also ideologically inconsistent on this issue. During the overblown Janet Jackson nipple controversy, Republicans, who only few years earlier were advocating the elimination of the FCC, now were entertaining the idea of expanding the regulatory power of that organization to encompass cable and satellite television because a over-the-hill disco singer popped a mammary. There is a difference between condemning the repugnant (things like Janet Jackson’s dance routine) and advocating that government protect us from the repugnant. That’s the distinction between a nanny and an active citizen. Too many folks, if something is the “right thing to do” government should force us to comply. It’s a dangerous idea. Because the right thing is almost always subjective.