Feminists, Hurricanes, Leaks, Elections

Feminists like to claim that there are no innate differences between men and women -- other than that reproduction business. They also like to claim that women bear the brunt of domestic violence. Do you think they don't realize the two claims are contradictory? Or do they think that we are too stupid to notice?

Wendy McElroy believes that women are the perpetrators of domestic violence a lot more than is generally thought. She has a web site called ifeminists.com. She is her own feminist.

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Last year and the year before some 'experts' were saying that the number and intensity of hurricanes striking the US was due to global warming. Do you suppose they believe the fact that none have made landfall (so far) this year is due to global cooling? Probably not. They will likely blame that on global warming too.

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Those who leak government secrets to the New York Times and other venues seem to think they are serving the citizens of this country well. They seem to think the reason the government 'classifies' information is to keep citizens in the dark about what the government is doing. They are, of course, wrong. The government classifies certain critical information to keep our enemies and potential enemies in the dark about what it is doing. Although tens of thousands of government employees and contractors have access to government secrets, it would be impossible for every citizen to know everything and still keep the information from falling into the hands of our enemies. Even the liberal elite should understand that.

Yes, the information classification process is sometimes abused. But there are better ways to bring those cases to light than leaking it to the media. Every agency has a whistle-blower process. And there are always competing elements within an agency that can be exploited by a conscientious employee to expose abuse of the classification process.

I'm convinced that classified information is leaked to the media solely for political purposes.

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We've heard a lot over the last few years about problems in the conduct of elections. Although we certainly should strive to make elections perfect, we need to recognize that we will never reach that goal. And we should understand that elections have never been perfect. I believe that we come a lot closer to counting every vote correctly now than we did forty years ago.

Some complain that using electronic devices to tally votes is too risky -- that such devices might malfunction and lose all the votes. This is certainly possible, but I can remember when boxes full of paper ballots somehow disappeared before the ballots were counted. Some election districts use paper ballots that are counted electronically, but even that is not foolproof. The paper ballots are recounted only when election officials are aware of a problem.

The process of ensuring that only citizens are allowed to register to vote, that only legally registered voters are allowed to vote, that each voter only votes once, and that all the votes are counted correctly will always be an imperfect process.

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