{"id":8800,"date":"2013-05-08T05:39:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T05:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/08\/the-madness-of-liberal-moralizing\/"},"modified":"2013-05-08T05:39:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T05:39:25","slug":"the-madness-of-liberal-moralizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/08\/the-madness-of-liberal-moralizing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Madness of Liberal Moralizing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heather Mac Donald's piece<\/a> starts off like this:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The paradoxes of liberal morality were on glaring display last week. The Obama administration OK\u2019d the sale of \u201cPlan B\u201d post-coital emergency contraception over the counter without prescription (or parental consent) to girls as young as 15. At the same time, the City Council moved a step closer to banning anyone under the age of 21 from buying cigarettes (the legal age is now 18).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Holy smoke! (Or as my boyhood pal Joe Odegaard used to say, fumus sanctus<\/em>!)<\/span><\/p>\n

The church of liberalism must have its demon, and his name is 'tobacco.'<\/span><\/p>\n

For more on the antics of the 'tobacco wackos,' see my Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms<\/a> category.  There is plenty there to get you libruls 'up in arms.'<\/span><\/p>\n

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Heather Mac Donald's piece starts off like this: The paradoxes of liberal morality were on glaring display last week. The Obama administration OK\u2019d the sale of \u201cPlan B\u201d post-coital emergency contraception over the counter without prescription (or parental consent) to girls as young as 15. At the same time, the City Council moved a step … Continue reading “The Madness of Liberal Moralizing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}