Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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Heart Attack Hill and Heart Attack Grill
I'd rather toil up Heart Attack Hill than put away one of these bad boys. It would take about 80 miles of hiking to burn off the calories from just one of these burgers if you have the fries and milkshake as well. Up for an 80-miler? Nanny-state liberals would use the power of the…
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George Will on the Liberal-Collectivist Agenda
Excerpt: The collectivist agenda is antithetical to America’s premise, which is: Government — including such public goods as roads, schools and police — is instituted to facilitate individual striving, a.k.a. the pursuit of happiness. The fact that collective choices facilitate this striving does not compel the conclusion that the collectivity (Warren’s “the rest of us”)…
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Demands of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protesters
Here is a list of their individually puerile and jointly inconsistent demands. One wonders how Demand nine: Open borders migration; anyone can travel anywhere to work and live is consistent with Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system and Demand four: Free college education. Libertarians believe in the foolish notion of open borders,…
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Max Scheler, George Orwell, Ressentiment, and the Left
Max Scheler describes a form of ressentiment that leads to "indiscriminate criticism without any positive aims." (Ressentiment, ed. Coser, Schocken 1972, p. 51) Although Scheler was writing in theyears before the First World War, his description put me in mind of contemporary liberals and leftists, especially when they are out of power. He continues: This…
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A Summary of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals
If you want to understand the Left, their tactics, their ruthlessness, and their imperviousness to ethical considerations, then you need to read Alinksy. Summary here. You will then understand what is behind the outrageous attacks of leftist scum bags, such as this guy, on conservatives. They see politics as warfare, and they believe the end…
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The Slanderous Left
When they lie about us we must tell the truth about them. We must expose them for the moral scum that they are. The examples of their hate-driven mendacity are legion, but here is a particularly egregious instance of race-baiting slander. Representative Andre Carson, D-Indiana, a leading member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said the following: …
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Gibson Guitars and the Totalitarian Left
My title is not meant to suggest that there is a totalitarian Left and a non-totalitarian Left; the Left as Left is totalitarian. There are innumerable examples. I was once a proud owner of a Gibson ES-335 TD (pictured above). I foolishly sold it during a period of youthful poverty. Dumbest thing I ever did. So…
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Bill Clinton, the Race Card, and Voter ID
Say it ain't so, Bill. This from the The Wall Street Journal: The last time Bill Clinton tried to play the race card, it blew up his wife's primary campaign in South Carolina. Well, the Voice is back, this time portraying the nationwide movement to pass voter ID laws as the return of Jim Crow.…
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Pee Cee Christians
Do some Christians have a death wish? Campus Crusade for Christ has changed its name, dropping 'crusade' and 'Christ.' And then they have the chutzpah to say they are not bowing to political correctness. There is nothing wrong with unintentionally causing offense to people who take offense inappropriately. If 'crusade' and 'Christ' are offensive to…
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New York Times Reader Kills Dozens in Norway
I have been harshly critical of Ann Coulter in the past, but she is basically right in this piece.
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‘Home Grown Terrorists’
That's politically correct jargon for Muslim terrorists who happen to be Americans. The liberal media shies away from the accurate phrase 'Muslim terrorist.' But it doesn't hesitate to label Anders Behring Breivik a Christian terrorist despite the lack of evidence of his being a Christian, a fact that even Sam Harris notes. Don't you love liberals with their…
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Zero Tolerance and the Death of Common Sense
(Here is a fine rant from the old blog. Originally appeared 23 August 2007.) Is common sense dead? Apparently, given the large number of incidents like the one reported in this story of a boy who was suspended from school for merely drawing a picture of a gun. And this occurred in Arizona of all places,…
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Dissecting Leftism
John Jay Ray blogs on year after year and takes no prisoners. I went on ego surfari at his site and pulled up a quotation and a reference for which I thank Dr. Ray: Good comment from Bill Vallicella: "It is difficult to get lefties to appreciate the moral equivalence of the two totalitarian movements…
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San Bancisco: Lefties Gone Wild
Banned in San Francisco: soda, Happy Meals, the selling of pets, circumcision. As California goes, there goes the country. 'Hope' you like the 'change.'
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The First Rule of Liberalism
Government failure always justifies more government. Excerpt from this James Taranto piece: It's a common refrain among those who lust to increase government's size and power: Every failed measure justifies more of the same. Poverty programs make it harder to escape poverty? We need more poverty programs! Racial preferences heighten racial division? We need more racial…