Category: Politics
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Reverse Hijacking of Liberal-Leftist Lingo
Leftists are consummate linguistic hijackers. I've been making this point since the inception of this weblog back in aught-four. I won't repeat my examples. It just now occurred to me that a useful tactic in the culture war might be the reverse hijacking of liberal-leftist lingo. I have done this three times in the last…
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The Liberal Assault on Ballot-Box Integrity
Walter E. Williams, Destroying Your Vote: Voter ID laws have been challenged because liberal Democrats deem them racist. I guess that’s because they see blacks as being incapable of acquiring some kind of government-issued identification. Interesting enough is the fact that I’ve never heard of a challenge to other ID requirements as racist, such as…
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How Valuable is Ideological Diversity within Communities of Interacting People?
Arthur C. Brooks deplores the lack of ideological diversity and the prevalence of 'groupthink' in academia in an October 30th NYT editorial entitled "Academia's Rejection of Diversity." He is of course right to do so. But this is nothing new as any conservative will tell you. And we don't need studies to know about it,…
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Nixon Redivivus
Hillary's Breathtaking Mendacity. By Andrew McCarthy. Excerpts: To repeat, Clinton and Obama knew it was a terrorist attack but tried to con the country, very much including the families of our dead, into believing our heroes had been killed by a spontaneous response to a video. [. . .] The lies about “an awful Internet…
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Charles Koch
Perhaps you have heard of those nefarious behind-the-scenes operators, the shadowy Koch Brothers. To get an initial taste of just how evil they are, see here.
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An Observation on Last Night’s Democrat Debate: Bernie’s Generosity
I could stomach only about an hour's worth of it. What struck me was Bernie Sanders' generous political self-immolation vis-à-vis Mrs. Clinton. He handed her the nomination by agreeing with her about the e-mail server (non)-issue. And the crowd loved it. (Is there a lesson here for Republicans?) Here is my take on Sanders. He…
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Could I Support a Muslim for President?
It would depend on the Muslim. Consider first a parallel question: Could I support a Christian for president? Yes, other things being equal, but not if he or she is a theocrat. Why not? Because theocracy is incompatible with the principles, values, and founding documents of the United States of America. Similarly, I could easily…
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The Decline and Fall of American Political Debate
A good article by John Daniel Davidson. Excerpt: For years it’s been remarked that we no longer have one American culture but many, that we’ve become Balkanized into a dizzying array of interests and identity groups separated by race, ethnicity, religion, and much else. But we’re also separated, increasingly, by the news and commentary we…
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The Trump Phenomenon
Two penetrating essays. Bruce S. Thornton, Donald Trump and the Other Class Warfare Victor Davis Hanson, How Illegal Immigration Finally Turned Off the Public
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Political Burden of Proof
As contemporary 'liberals' become ever more extreme, they increasingly assume what I will call the political burden of proof. The onus is now on them to defeat the presumption that they are so morally and intellectually obtuse as not to be worth talking to.
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Like a Moth to the Flame
Jean van Heijenoort was drawn to Anne-Marie Zamora like a moth to the flame. He firmly believed she wanted to kill him and yet he travelled thousands of miles to Mexico City to visit her where kill him she did by pumping three rounds from her Colt .38 Special into his head while he slept.…
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Love Gov: From First Date to Mandate
Hi Bill, As an update, I am delighted to report that in just a week since its launch, we have already received 440,000 combined YouTube views for our new, satirical, 5-part video series on liberty—Love Gov: From First Date to Mandate. With momentum now building, we would be most grateful for your help in sharing Love Gov in email,…
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On ‘Disenfranchise’ and Hillary’s Will to Power
According to the WSJ, Hillary Clinton thinks that Republican-controlled states have “systematically and deliberately” tried to “disempower and disenfranchise” voters. Here is another clear example of how leftists distort language for their political advantage. To disenfranchise is to deprive of a right, in particular, the right to vote. But only some people have the right…
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The Democrats Have Moved Farther to the Left than the Republicans to the Right
Well, obviously. Only a leftist loon could deny it. It is a pleasure to see the spectacularly obvious point made in a NYT op-ed piece by Peter Wehner: AMONG liberals, it’s almost universally assumed that of the two major parties, it’s the Republicans who have become more extreme over the years. That’s a self-flattering but…
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Barry Goldwater on Conservatism
What follows is taken verbatim from Keith Burgess-Jackson's weblog. It is so good, so right, and so important that it deserves to be disseminated widely. Barry M. Goldwater (1909-1998) on Conservatism I have been much concerned that so many people today with Conservative instincts feel compelled to apologize for them. Or if not to apologize…