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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Atheistic Socialism vs. Classical Toleration
The classical version of toleration was exemplified in John Locke’s 1689 letter on toleration, in which he wrote that it is no business of the sovereign to interfere with any of his subjects’ individual right to believe and to worship as he pleases.
Our sovereign Barack Obama parts company with that ethic, which underlies the Bill of Rights First Amendment. Mr. Obama and his liberal-progressive-socialistic confreres work tirelessly to undermine Judeo-Christian values, promoting a no-limit hedonistic society as the desirable endpoint of personal licentiousness (without personal responsibility.)
Read about Obama’s latest outrage in Michael Gerson’s op-ed article, Obama plays his Catholic allies for fools.
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Friday, January 20, 2012
The Roots of Environmentalism
Luddite environmentalism springs both from baby-boomer pagan mythology, and from blind selfishness.
Environmentalism and the Leisure Class
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In turning down Keystone, however, the President has uncovered an ugly little secret that has always lurked beneath the surface of environmentalism. Its basic appeal is to the affluent. Despite all the professions of being “liberal” and “against big business,” environmentalism’s main appeal is that it promises to slow the progress of industrial progress. People who are already comfortable with the present state of affairs—who are established in the environment, so to speak—are happy to go along with this. It is not that they have any greater insight into the mysteries and workings of nature. They are happier with the way things are. In fact, environmentalism works to their advantage. The main danger to the affluent is not that they will be denied from improving their estate but that too many other people will achieve what they already have. As the Forest Service used to say, the person who built his mountain cabin last year is an environmentalist. The person who wants to build one this year is a developer.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
The Environmental Gestapo
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Sunday, January 08, 2012
Poetic Justice
Two liberal-progressive causes motivated by hatred of private enterprise collide head-on in California. Another example of the inherent limitations of state-planners’ minds.
Read Revival Of Iconic California Condor Threatens State’s Wind Farm Boom on the Forbes website.
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Michael Moore
Liberal-progressive multiculturalism - our educational euphemism for the one-world-government aspiration of socialism - begets virulent anti-Americanism. Michael Moore, a voluble exemplar of that ethos, understandably is drawn to the liberal media frenzy surrounding the Occupy Wall Street demonstration.
For additional background information, read about Moore’s encomium to Castro and his slandering of anti-Castro Cubans.
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Tuesday, November 01, 2011
ObamaSpeak
In George Orwell’s 1984, Big Brother’s NewSpeak uses ordinary words to mean different things at different times. The objective is to confuse his subjects. Any thought or action becomes potentially treasonous or criminal, paralyzing those who might wish to defend their liberties.
Eric Holder, Obama’s head of the Justice Department, similarly is distorting our language in a way calculated to diminish odds of our national survival.
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
The Intolerance of Liberal-Progressive Tolerance
George Will takes a look at Congressman Barney Frank’s threat to silence members of the Federal Reserve board who oppose the Fed’s destructive and ineffective inflationary policies.
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Democrat/Socialist Party Civil Discourse
Last January, when Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot and others killed by a deranged individual, liberal-progressives were quick to blame conservatives who had disagreed, sometimes in strong language, with Democrat/Socialist Party policies and actions. Mainstream liberal-progressive media self-righteously called for muffling conservative voices in the name of civility.
Obama, the head socialist, remains silent, however, regarding physical violence by labor unions, the poster boys for world socialism and class warfare. His failure to denounce such illegal, destructive action, as well as violent language by labor union leader Jimmie Hoffa, spotlights the noxious hypocrisy of liberal-progressive calls for civil discourse, revealing them as no more than attempts to stifle freedom of speech.
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Feminist Hypocrisy
What the LA Times is Afraid to Tell You About Phyllis Schlafly
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
Liberal-Progressives' Energetic Looney Land
Columnist Paul Driessen describes the reduction of the Western world to third world penury already effected, with much worse to come, by political leaders obsessed with curtailing use of hydrocarbon energy sources.
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