Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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Who Built the Internet? Obama’s Straw Man Fallacy
This just over the transom: With respect to your post about how "you didn't build this blog" — really bad example. You built the blog, but Big Government built the internet that allows you to transmit it it to potentially billions of people. So, it's exactly an illustration of what Obama was talking about —…
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The Three Greatest Scams of Our Time
Here. Excerpt: These three chimeras [the Palestinian faux “narrative,” the environmental craze, and the Obama myth] generally manifest the morbid sense of victimhood and hatred of the modern West that is the most contemptible and dangerous feature of our contemporary world. Israel is a tiny outpost of enlightened modernity that the world wants to see…
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Profiling, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Everybody profiles. Liberals are no exception. Liberals reveal their prejudices by where they live, shop, send their kids to school and with whom they associate. The word 'prejudice' needs analysis. It could refer to blind prejudice: unreasoning, reflexive (as opposed to reflective) aversion to what is other just because it is other, or an unreasoning pro-attitude…
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This Land is Your Land?
A conservative response to the Woody Guthrie centennial and a supplement to Saturday night's oldies show.
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Garry Wills on What it Means to Vote for a Republican
Excerpt: To vote for a Republican means, now, to vote for a plutocracy that depends for its support on anti-government forces like the tea party, Southern racists, religious fanatics, and war investors in the military-industrial complex. It does no good to say that “Romney is a good man, not a racist.” That may be true,…
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Hating Reagan
More Leftist Scumbaggery.
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Tobacco Insanity in Maricopa County and the Need for Smoke-Ins
Peter and Mike teach in the Maricopa County Community College system. One teaches at Scottsdale CC, the other at Glendale CC. Over Sunday breakfast they reported that, starting 1 July (if I got the story straight), no smoking of tobacco products will be allowed anywhere on any CC campus in Maricopa County, Arizona. And that…
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Popcorn Too? Food Fascists Gone Wild
Here. First soda pop, then popcorn, milkshakes . . . . The trouble with nanny-state liberals is that they do not understand or value the liberty of the individual , a liberty which includes the liberty to behave in ways that may be foolish. If you grant the state the power to order your life there will be no…
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Subprime College Educations
Another chapter in the decline of the West. Excerpts (emphasis added): In his Encounter Books Broadside "The Higher Education Bubble," Reynolds says this bubble exists for the same reasons the housing bubble did. The government decided that too few people owned homes/went to college, so government money was poured into subsidized and sometimes subprime mortgages/student…
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New PC Expression: ‘Customers of Size’
Or at least it was new when I first ran an ancestorof this post on the old blog back in 2008 (26 July). …………….. No doubt you have heard of 'people of color' not to be confused with 'colored people.' (But what exactly is the difference in reality?) Just this morning I discovered that some…
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A Prime Instance of Political Correctness: The Blackballing of Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff is a civil libertarian and a liberal in an older and respectable sense of the term. He thinks for himself and follows the arguments and evidence where they lead. So what do contemporary politically correct liberals do? They attack him. His coming out against abortion particularly infuriated them. Mark Judge comments: Hentoff's liberal friends…
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Robert Paul Wolff: “The Left Has Had All the Good Songs”
Anarchist philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, over at The Philosopher's Stone, writes, While I was making dinner, Susie put on a CD of Pete Seegar [sic] songs. I was struck once again by the oft-remarked fact that for half a century, the left has had all the good songs. That cannot be irrelevant. By the way,…
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Voter Identification and Voter Suppression
The controversy over voter ID is a fascinating one because it highlights the deep divide between contemporary conservatives and contemporary liberals. That this non-issue is debated at all shows that the Left is bereft of common sense. Anyone with common sense ought to be able to appreciate that voting must be conducted in an orderly manner, and…
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Left-Wing Racial McCarthyism
Contemporary liberals hunt for racists the way McCarthyites in the '50s and early '60s hunted for commies, and they use their terms of opprobrium with the same sort of irresponsible semantic latitude. You could say that they are extreme semantic latitudinarians when it comes to their verbal bludgeons of choice. But a witch hunt by any other name…
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Elizabeth Warren: Undocumented Injun
Elizabeth 'Fauxcahontas' Warren, Cherokee maiden, diversity queen of the Harvard Lore Law School, and author of the cookbook Pow Wow Chow, is being deservedly and diversely raked over the coals. Howie Carr, White and Wrong. NRO, Paleface. Michael Barone, Racial Preferences: Unfair and Ridiculous. Excerpt: Let's assume the 1894 document is accurate. That makes Warren…