Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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Cooperation and Competition
Liberals tend to oppose cooperation to competition, and vice versa, as if they excluded each other. "We need more cooperation and less competition." One frequently hears that from liberals. But competition is a form of cooperation. As such, it cannot be opposed to cooperation. One cannot oppose a species to its genus. Consider competitive games…
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Leftism Not a Religion
Dennis Prager often says that leftism is a religion. That is a sloppy use of language. Leftism is an anti-religious political ideology that functions in the lives of its adherents much like religions function in the lives of their adherents. To call leftism a religion only sires confusion. It is enough to say it is…
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Why Leftists Hate Apostates
David Horowitz, Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey (Spence Publishing, 2003), pp. 274-276: The radical commitment is less a political than a moral choice. Leaving the faith is a traumatic experience because it involves an involuntary severing of communal ties. That is why “political correctness” is a habit of the progressive mind — it is the…
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Why Do Progressives Love Criminals?
A symposium with Theodore Dalrymple et al. Excerpt: Dalrymple: That leftists regard the criminal justice system as criminal and therefore regard criminals as “primitive rebels” against an unjust system is, I suppose, right, though few of them would openly admit it. They tend to see the proper function of the criminal justice system as being…
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Chess Banned in the Heartland
Here are further examples of liberal stupidity that we shouldn't forget. A repost from the old Powerblogs site. Written 1 September 2005. You might expect chess to be banned in a Left coast place like Berserkley. Unfortunately, chess actually has been banned in a couple of places in fly-over country, places where one would not expect to…
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Pinning Liberalism Down
Michael Liccione nails it. Yes muchachos, this will be on the final.
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Obama’s Assault on Religious Liberty
Quotable: Here is what is particularly worrisome: the state seems no longer satisfied with a slow but steady evolution toward secularity; it is aggressively forcing Catholic hospitals off the stage, for it is creating for them an impossible situation. If they cave in and provide insurance for these verboten procedures, they have effectively de-Catholicized themselves;…
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The Race Card is a Joker
Here. And here we read about another prominent defector from the Global Warming scare.
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The Hyphenated American
One may gather from my surname that I am of Italian extraction. Indeed, that is the case in both paternal and maternal lines: my mother was born near Rome in a place called San Vito Romano, and my paternal grandfather near Verona in the wine region whence comes Valpollicella. Given these facts, some will refer…
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Islamist Fanatics There, Secular Fanatics Here
An excellent column by Dennis Prager. We conservatives need to 'make jihad' (in a manner of speaking) against the religion-bashing shysters of the ACLU. Ever wonder about the etymology of 'shyster'? I have an answer for you. No, I don't think that every lawyer is a shyster.
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A Hateful Outrage
More on how leftist ideology turns otherwise decent people such as Alan Colmes into the opposite.
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Can a Liberal be a Decent Human Being?
There are some decent liberals. But there is something in contemporary liberalism/leftism that inclines their adherents to viciousness far in excess of what one finds among conservatives. There are too many examples to list. Here is the latest.
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Another Obamination: SC Voter ID Law Slapped Down by Feds
Story here. It is not just that leftists are bereft of common sense; they want voter fraud. How else could one explain their palpably irrational position? An opponent devoid of arguments is an opponent legitimately psychologized. Bill Cinton, The Race Card, and Voter ID. Why Americans Support Voter ID Laws.
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Diversity, Inc.
Another excellent column by Victor Davis Hanson. Excerpt: A university, for example, might highlight its “rich diversity” by pointing to gay students, female students, Punjabi students, Arab students, Korean students, and disabled students — even should they all come from quite affluent families and backgrounds. Key here was that “diversity” was admittedly cosmetic, or at…
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Of Christograms and Political Correctness
Monterey Tom liked my 'Xmas' post and sends this: Many Catholic artifacts related to worship are marked with the Roman letters IHS, which is a partial Latin transliteration of the Greek form of 'Jesus' and can also be read as an acronym for the Latin Iesus Hominum Salvator (Jesus Savior of Man). However, some have…