Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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Nancy Pelosi on the Word
Here. How did this airhead become Speaker of the House? What I say about the misuse of Scripture in this post is relevant.
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The Kehowski Contretemps: Political Correctness Alive and Well at Glendale Community College
Here, here, and here.
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Thanks to the Left: Balkanization, Tribalism, Civil War
For more than two centuries, individuals with diverse backgrounds have come together to form a national ‘melting pot’ and harmonious society sustained by allegiance to the country and its founding principles. But today’s open-ended mass migration, coupled with the destructive influences of biculturalism, multiculturalism, bilingualism, multilingualism, dual citizenship, and affirmative action, have combined to form…
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Left and Right
For a leftist, one can never be too far left, and anyone the least bit conservative is a 'fascist.'
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Are Immigration Laws Discriminatory?
Liberals routinely complain that immigration laws such as the recently enacted Arizona Senate Bill 1070 are 'discriminatory.' This is nonsense, of course, but it is important to understand why. 1. Let's start with the very notion of discrimination. Discrimination as such is neither good nor bad. In this respect it is like change. Change as…
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Cardinal Mahony, nAZi Hunter
When I first landed in Arizona, way back in 1991, I noticed bumper stickers that read, 'Do AZ I do.' Well, if you do AZ I do, does that make you a nAZi? Apparently, Cardinal Roger Mahony, Catholic Archbiship of Los Angeles, thinks so: "I can't imagine Arizonans now reverting to German Nazi and Russian Communist…
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No Comity Without Commonality
Would that the fetishizers of diversity and inclusion understood that social harmony presupposes commonality. But theirs is a bogus diversity and inclusiveness in any case, excluding as it does those who disagree with them.
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The American and Leftist Trinities
The American trinity is becoming as devalued as the 'copper' penny on which we read it: Liberty, In God We Trust, E Pluribus Unum. In the ascendent is the Leftist trinity: Equality, In Government We Trust, Diversity Über Alles.
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Arizona SB 1070: The Threat is Stronger than the Execution
Eine Drohung ist stärker als eine Ausführung is a saying often attributed to grandmaster Aron Nimzovich. (On the correctness of the attribution, chess aficionados will find interesting this piece by Edward Winter.) It occurred to me this morning that the maxim also applies to SB 1070, about which I have said quite a bit of late. (Scroll…
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Is Hegel Guilty of ‘Epochism’?
In these politically correct times we hear much of racism, sexism, ageism, speciesism, and even heterosexism. Why not then epochism, the arbitrary denigration of entire historical epochs? Some years back, a television commentator referred to the Islamist beheading of Nicholas Berg as “medieval.” As I remarked to my wife, “That fellow is slamming an entire…
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If You Lie About Us . . .
. . . we will tell the truth about you.
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Arizona Senate Bill 1070
Arizona Senate Bill 1070 "requires a reasonable attempt to be made to determine the immigration status of a person during any legitimate contact made by an official or agency of the state or a county, city, town . . . if reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the U.S." …
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James Kalb on Illegal Immigration
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has signed into law Arizona Senate Bill 1070. Illegal aliens are of course up in arms over it. But why do the ruling elites tend to tolerate mass illegal immigration? Why are they not upholding the rule of law? James Kalb (The Tyranny of Liberalism, ISI Books, 2008, pp. 49-50) writes,…
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Mark Steyn on the Tea Party Bashers
Mark Steyn in his typical fine form: Everybody knows that when you say "I'm becoming very concerned about unsustainable levels of federal spending" that that's old Jim Crow code for "Let's get up a lynching party and teach that uppity Negro a lesson." Frank Rich of The New York Times attempted to diversify the Tea…