Category: Polemics
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The Ultimate Orwellianism
The ultimate Orwellianism is to refer to the terminally benighted as 'woke.'
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The Albatross and the Donkey
Joe Biden is and will remain an albatross around the neck of the Democrat jackass.
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Why Tulsi Gabbard is Leaving the Democrat Party and Why You Should Too
Here at Substack. HT: Anthony Flood. Full text follows. Please propagate. Do your bit to restore some sanity to this country and to the world. Why I'm leaving the Democratic Party Tulsi Gabbard I love our country. Our God-given rights of freedom, life, and liberty enshrined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights are…
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Leftist Omni-Politicization
For the Left, everything is either political or to be politicized, including that which is non-political. Take this to its logical extreme and you end up with 'woke' mathematics. This reductio ad absurdum will cause a sane person to reject the premise. The sane will point out that some things, by their very nature, cannot…
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The ‘Progressive’
A 'progressive' is one who has made no progress in understanding the world. If he had, he would understand that his proposed changes are not improvements. This assumes, charitably, that he understands the difference between 'change' and 'improvement.'
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Truth is not a Leftist Value
Posted today on my Facebook page. I could not resist making some additions for the present venue. ……………………….. My title is a Dennis Prager riff. But it needs a bit of nuancing, a job for a philosopher, not a talk show host. Truth is a value for leftists in an instrumental sense: they will tell…
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Face Masks
Masks are a form of cultural appropriation. We have no right to adopt the apparel of criminals, thereby disrespecting by co-opting the accoutrement of their chosen lifestyle. That lifestyle is who they are! But not only that. Since criminals are disproportionately black, masks are also racist! Masks are also discriminatory and non-inclusive. Doesn't every pathogen…
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A Timid Plea for Freedom of Speech
JULIUS EVOLA wrote a fascinating introduction to Pali Buddhism. You say Evola was a fascist? Well, Jean-Paul Sartre was a Stalinist; Gottlob Frege was an anti-Semite (according to Michael Dummett); Martin Heidegger and Carl Schmitt were members of the Nazi Party. Are those affiliations good reasons to not read these great authors? Not to a…
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What is the Most Pernicious of the Left’s Errors?
Contemporary leftists (cultural Marxists) deny that there is a reality antecedent to our classifications and conceptualizations. (V. I. Lenin was of course an exception along with other classical Marxists.) Everything becomes a socio-political construct. How convenient for identity-political totalitarians! The bird of reality can be carved up in any way that suits the will to…
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A Response to Liccione on Border Enforcement
From my Facebook page, 22 March 2019 Michael Liccione writes, Totally open borders would be a surrender of sovereignty. Totally closed borders would be inhumane. There must surely be a via media that would be neither. But Washington seems unable to define it, because both Capitol Hill and the White House see more…
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Truth and Power
'Speaking truth to power' is a phrase leftists love when they are out of power; in power, they exercise it, and truth be damned. They imbibed mendacity with their mothers' milk.
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The ‘Liberal’
She knows how to signal her virtue, but not her turns or lane changes.
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Three Lockean Reasons to Oppose the Democrats
The main purposes of government are to protect life, liberty, and property. Subsidiary purposes are subordinate to the Lockean triad. This is lost on the present-day Democrat party which has been hijacked by the hard Left. Despite what they say, they are anti-life, anti-liberty, and anti-property. So if you value life, liberty, and property, then…