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Thoughts To Ease a Conservative’s Mind
Current Events/Politics

Thoughts To Ease a Conservative’s Mind


Here’s the Fundamental Article of Belief: It centers on a simple question: “What would be my attitude toward a society ordered around the beliefs espoused by this or that person?”  If the response to that question is, “I’d be okay with a society ordered around such principles,” then I give that person a whole lot of leeway in what they say and do, before I no longer admire him.

 

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<i>Jussie Smollett</i> Did The <b><i>Real</i></b> Lynching
Current Events/Politics, Race/Race Relations

Jussie Smollett Did The Real Lynching


Will Smollett go to jail for his disgusting racist crime? Or will Chicago law enforcement again bend over backward to try not to look racist or homophobic? The Left have already done what they can to say, “Well, it wasn’t right, what he did, but you can certainly understand it!”  Nope. I can’t. If you can understand perpetrating a fraud that you know will cause harm to millions of innocent people, in order to get more money, then you have a serious problem.  Smollett’s crime proved pretty conclusively that the basic premise on which he committed it is false. In a truly oppressive country, you don’t need to fabricate oppression. It’s a feature of the system.

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A Heartbreaking Post
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A Heartbreaking Post


There’s a marked increase in hostility on the Right, directed to the Right. However, if the Left were ever to engage in any kind of in-depth introspection, leftism would fall apart like the intellectual house-of-cards it is. It would become nothing more than a vast collection of tiny, spluttering splinter groups feuding and scrapping over tiny niche issues, well below the radar of a media corps too power-hungry to focus on such penny-ante flapdoodle.

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Current Events/Politics, Wish I'D Said That!

Wish I’D Said That! (2/1/19)


“The notion that conservatives are the dogmatists and progressives are the free-thinkers is one of the greatest triumphs in the history of the intellectual marketing of bullsh**. Conservatives simply acknowledge that we have dogma, that some questions are settled, and that while they can be questioned or revisited, the amount of new evidence required to overturn them should be monumental and decisive, not faddish and rationalized in the emotions of the moment.”

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Current Events/Politics

Why The Right Always Wins Arguments With The Left


Leftist ideas are old, fat, flaccid, weak, feeble. It’s because those ideas go unchallenged in all the places where they should be most vigorously challenged: academia, the press, Hollywood, pop culture. While Conservative ideas are attacked from all those same angles, as well as from others, as soon as they emerge. The result: we on the Right are constantly honing, and adjusting, and re-adjusting, and adding and discarding, testing, testing and re-testing, until we have something that’s coherent and makes sense. We actually like to test out ideas, because we love the challenge of actually solving problems. The Left wants power.   Continue reading Why The Right Always Wins Arguments With The Left

A Hopeful Sign — the American Left is ALREADY Devouring Its Own — Or: LEFTIST PRIVILEGE
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A Hopeful Sign — the American Left is ALREADY Devouring Its Own — Or: LEFTIST PRIVILEGE


Okay… let’s spell it out. When these leftists figured that BECAUSE they were of the Left, they could expose themselves, rub themselves, grope, grab, kiss, rub, massage, fondle, caress, molest, hug, squeeze anyone, and anyTHING on anyone, they wanted… and get clean away with it… they were right. It was, and still is, Leftist Privilege! Continue reading A Hopeful Sign — the American Left is ALREADY Devouring Its Own — Or: LEFTIST PRIVILEGE

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It’s Worth Repeating: If Leftists Have to Debate Fairly… They’ll Lose Every Time


To elaborate just a bit: If the Left were unable to use insults, name-calling or mind-reading, they’d have nothing to say… and they’d lose every debate in which they have to participate honestly. I’d add: if the Left were also unable to filibuster, talk over, interrupt their debate opponents, they’d cease to exist as anything but a fringe current of thought. Continue reading It’s Worth Repeating: If Leftists Have to Debate Fairly… They’ll Lose Every Time

Lessons From the Left — or: Leftists are Child Molesters
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Lessons From the Left — or: Leftists are Child Molesters


Our problem on the Right is that we want desperately to think leftists are simply good, but misguided, people. Nope. They’re actually bad people. They mean to do you and me harm, both in order to take power AND to reshape America into their vision of what’s good and right: a country in which they hold the reins of power. The struggle, as far as the Left is concerned, is to the death. We need to be aware of that, and we need to recognize the implications of that. On the Left, at least at the leadership levels, they don’t care if we, and others, die. In fact, that wouldn’t bother them in the least. Leftist leaders are simply bad people. Continue reading Lessons From the Left — or: Leftists are Child Molesters

Just Sayin’ (Part II)
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Just Sayin’ (Part II)


Here’s something you should remember, as you hear Democrat after Democrat pontificating on the “horrors” of sexual harassment, and implying that HE’d or SHE’d NEVER… They’re probably coming from some place where they’ve just done it, and they’re PRAYING that they don’t get caught. For Democrats, there are five words that cause them cold, heart-stopping terror: “A woman has come forward.” Continue reading Just Sayin’ (Part II)

Yet Another Masterful Column from Jonah Goldberg — and Some Discussion
Current Events/Politics

Yet Another Masterful Column from Jonah Goldberg — and Some Discussion


I’m not sure that the Trump Presidency is worse than what, with another Republican, likely would have been just an interregnum between the Obama Presidency and the next horror-show Democrat President. Furthermore, don’t forget: lovable, corrupt, witless old Bernie Sanders made it okay to call oneself a Socialist again. That means that the Democrat Party field for President in upcoming primaries will no longer, for the foreseeable future, be lacking an avowedly Socialist candidate for the Presidency. Great. –>    Continue reading Yet Another Masterful Column from Jonah Goldberg — and Some Discussion