Category: Politics
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I Was Forced to Show My Papers!
Things are really getting bad here in the fascist state of Arizona. Why just this morning I was forced to show ID when I went to vote. I strolled into the polling place looking a fright after several hours of hiking. I introduced myself as 'King Blog' but that cut no ice with the old…
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Michael Scarpalanda on Arizona Senate Bill 1070
Craig M. Thompson writes: I have enjoyed your commentary on the current situation in Arizona. I ran across an interesting article at The Witherspoon Institute on illegal immigration called Arizona, Congress, and the Immigration Mess. And I was hoping that you might comment on some of the points that he makes against SB 1070. Thanks for…
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Heidegger: Nazi Philosopher or Nazi Philosophy?
My old friend Horace Jeffery Hodges over at Gypsy Scholar comments on a New York Times book review by Adam Kirsch entitled The Jewish Question: Martin Heidegger. One of the books reviewed is Emmanuel Faye's The Introduction of Nazism Into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-1935 (translated by Michael B. Smith). Hodges…
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More on Immigration Law: Arizona House Bill 2162. Response to Reppert
On Friday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed HB 2162 which modifies and clarifies SB 1070 which was signed into law the week before. Here is a passage from 1070 which is constantly misrepresented in the liberal press, including the Arizona Republic newspaper: FOR ANY LAWFUL CONTACT MADE BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR AGENCY OF THIS STATE OR…
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More on Arizona Senate Bill 1070
Joseph A. e-mails: I greatly admire Victor Reppert for a number of reasons – I think the Argument from Reason is pretty amazing and effective when formulated and defended well, and Victor remains one of the most soft-spoken and polite bloggers around. Agreed. But a number of thoughts occurred to me when reading his and…
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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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Immigration and Usurpation
Have you ever wondered why the elites support mass immigration? See here.
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What the Fight is About
As Michael Barone understands, " the issue on which our politics has become centered — the Obama Democrats' vast expansion of the size and scope of government — is really not just about economics. It is really a battle about culture, a battle between the culture of dependence and the culture of independence."
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Anti-Tea Party Bias in the New York Times
The usual left-wing tilt of the NYT's Tea Party coverage is not so egregious in this recent piece. But even when they try to be fair they can't seem to pull it off. The piece opens with the following sentence: The Tea Party Movement is a diffuse American grass-roots group that taps into antigovernment sentiments.…
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Scenes From a Tea Party
The party line of the Democrats and their fellow travellers is that the Tea Party Movement is fueled by racism. The moral scum who make these absurd and scurrilous allegations ought to be ashamed of themselves. I name names and go into details in other posts which you will find in the Race and Leftism…
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Intellectuals’ Flight From Politics
A 1947 essay by Irving Howe. It is perhaps not unnecessary to say that to link is not to endorse. Remember my motto: Study everything, join nothing.
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The Racism Charge: The Left’s Attempt to Shut Down Debate
In The Faith of a Liberal, Morris Raphael Cohen writes that "The touchstone that enables us to recognize liberalism is the question of toleration . . . ." Now if toleration is the touchstone of liberalism, there is nothing liberal about contemporary liberals. They should therefore not be called 'liberals' but leftists. There is nothing tolerant…