Category: Leftism and Political Correctness
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From the Mail Pouch: Of Comments and Liberal Bias
A regular reader writes: First, I've been enjoying your blog greatly since you disabled comments. Thank you for daring to do that. (I say dare because nowadays comments are all the rage, and are used as traffic boosters – usually to the detriment of a site.) I knew my traffic would take a nose dive were…
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The Bigger the Government, the Smaller the Citizen
The reckless fiscal irresponsibility of ObamaCare should be obvious to anyone whose head is screwed on properly. But that is only one reason to oppose the leftist power-grab. Dennis Prager supplies another.
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The Gun-Totin’ Obama Protester Was Black!
If a black man exercises his Second Amendment rights, is he really black? For liberals, the answer, apparently, is in the negative. For them, apparently, the only real black is a liberal black. Take a gander at this video clip. You will see an Obama protester with a semi-automatic rifle slung over his shoulder, a…
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Does the Left Own Dylan?
Not according to Sean Curnyn of RightWingBob.com. (Via Paul J. Cella) Dylan is an artist not an ideologue, arguably America's greatest troubadour. For a taste of Left-Right polarity in Dylan's work already in the 1960s compare Subterranean Homesick Blues with Father of Night. The Weatherman faction of the SDS got its name from the line,…
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Political Correctness in the U.K.
Is there no limit to PeeCee idiocy? Apparently not. Liberals will throw themselves into the arms of any incoherence. See this Times of London piece. 'Ethnic minority' is to be blacklisted as offensive. The same of course goes for 'blacklisted.' But if you are offended by these words and phrases, then your stupidity offends me! …
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The Fiscal Irresponsibility of Liberals in the United States of Ponzi
Paul Krugman as case in point, here: There’s been some hysteria about the administration’s new estimate that the cumulative deficit will be $9 trillion over the next decade. Don’t get me wrong: this is bad. But it’s being treated as an inconceivable sum, far beyond anything that could possibly be handled. And it isn’t. What…
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Leftists and Guns
Leftists who fear a 'fascist theocracy' in the USA ought to consider joining with their conservative brethren in support of Second Amendment rights. That way, when the 'fascist theocrats' kick down their doors at 3 AM to haul them off to church services, the leftists will be well equipped to defend their liberty. Was it…
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Does the Left Own Dissent?
Battles in the ‘culture war’ are often fought and sometimes won on linguistic ground. Linguistic hijacking is a tried-and-true tactic, one sometimes found on the Right, but more often on the Left: a term whose natural habitat is some neutral semantic space is hijacked and piloted toward a Left Coast semantic subspace. An example is…
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Anti-Commie Haiku
Utopic heads in fog,They broke real eggsFor an unreal omelet.
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Roots of Leftist Viciousness in Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals
One reason that leftists are vicious is that they take to heart Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals #13: RULE 13: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but…
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The Race Card, the McCarthy Card, and ‘Death Panels’
There are two cards no leftist leaves home without: the race card and the McCarthy card. The Henry Gates case was a particularly egregious recent example of the playing of the former. For a recent example of an uncommonly sleazy deployment of the latter, see Richard Cohen 's attack on Sarah Palin in which he mounts…
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The ACLU on the Second Amendment
The following is verbatim from the ACLU website: The Second Amendment provides: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." ACLU POSITION Given the reference to "a well regulated Militia" and "the security of a free…
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Political Correctness Watch
Yale University Press bans images of Muhammad in academic book. What wimps these liberals be! And there is no wimp like an academic wimp. Cynthia Tucker: 45-65% Of Townhall Protesters Are Racists. 'Racist' is the all-purpose semantic bludgeon of choice among liberals. Disagree with a liberal on practically anything and you are a racist!…
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The Conservative Disadvantage
We conservatives are at a certain disadvantage as compared to our leftist brethren. We don’t seek the meaning of our lives in the political sphere but in the private arena: in hobbies, sports, our jobs and professions, in ourselves, our families, friends, neighborhoods, communities, clubs and churches; in foot races and chess tournaments; in the…
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Some Things I Look For in a Movie: A Rant
1. No mindless 'action.' No race and chase, crash and burn. I am not a robot, so I don't want to watch a movie made by robots about robots for robots. 2. No gratuitous sex, violence, and offensive language. I have no objection to sex, violence, and bad language as such. There is a time…