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July 31, 2010 7:59 am

Will Washington’s Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?

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by    in Conservatism,Constitution,Demagoguary,Obama,Politcal

Bill Clinton lowered the culture, moral tone and strength of the nation — and left America vulnerable to attack. When it came, George W. Bush stood up for America, albeit sometimes clumsily.

Barack Obama, however, has pulled off the ultimate switcheroo: He’s diminishing America from within — so far, successfully.

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May 23, 2010 10:37 am

Modern Liberalism & Islam: An Uncanny Resemblance

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by    in Capitalism,Conservatism,Constitution,Demagoguary,Elitism,Humanism,Islam,Marxism,Obama,Political Correctness,Progressism,Secularism,Socialism,Thinking

In the following essay is examined the strange resemblance between the totalitarian regimes of Islam and socialism in the areas of politics, law, economics and freedom. (This paper differentiates between traditional Islam and modern Muslim states accepting Western ideas on human rights, law and politics.)

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April 1, 2010 8:53 am

When Media Become Obama PR Agents

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by    in Demagoguary,Politcal,Political Correctness,Thinking

Now we have the spectacle of the White House seder, glowingly detailed on the front page of the New York Times. We also learn from the president that the meaning of Passover is that each generation must fight suffering and oppression (and presumably redistribute the wealth of the country). And I guess that if Jerusalem came up in the president’s seder, as Professor Charles Lipson suggests, the line might have been: Next year in part of Jerusalem.

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March 29, 2010 3:06 pm

$100,000 Reward for Video of Rude Tea Party’ers

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by    in Conservatism,Demagoguary,Marxism,Politcal,Progressism,Socialism

On stage at the Searchlight event, Mr. Breitbart offered to donate $100,000 to charity if anyone could provide video evidence that racial epithets were used against CBC members. Mr. Breitbart says he suspects the accusations were just a cynical attempt by the left and elements of the media to “marginalize” the Tea Party movement.

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March 27, 2010 8:27 pm

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

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by    in Demagoguary,Elitism,Marxism,Politcal,Progressism

Good post on the true cost of ObamaCare. But it gets better: the Dems are now shaking down CEOs who don’t get with the program. In the attached letter, Henry Waxman not only orders the CEOs of AT&T, Caterpillar, Deere & Co, and Verizon to testify before the Energy and Commerce Committee, but also to produce internal analyses and emails related to their statements

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12:50 pm

Cultural Marxism in Education

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by    in Demagoguary,Education,Marxism,Political Correctness,Progressism,Redistribution of Wealth,Secularism,Socialism,Thinking

The education machine that keeps churning out newbies conditioned in mind-blunting nonjudgmentalism has laid the groundwork for a left wing takeover.

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March 25, 2010 9:00 pm

Pulling the Plug on the “Living” Constitution

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by    in Constitution,Demagoguary,Elitism,Freedom,Marxism,Progressism,Socialism

Barack Obama has long seen the U.S. Constitution as an obstacle to what he considers progress. In a 2001 interview that surfaced during the presidential campaign, he made this very clear: the Supreme Court under Justice Earl Warren had failed to break “free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution,” Obama mused on a radio show.
The Warren Court was insufficiently radical, he said, conceding too much ground to the traditional interpreters of the Constitution as a “charter of negative liberties,” which “says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.”
The Founding Fathers, he implied, produced a defective document, much too passive in its understanding of government’s possibilities.

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March 24, 2010 11:13 am

Obama, Other Top Federal Officials Exempt from Healthcare Exchanges

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by    in Demagoguary,Elitism,Healthcare

President Barack Obama signed the Senate health care bill into law yesterday that will exempt the President, his cabinet secretaries and special congressional staff members from participation in the new government-run health care “exchanges.”

Rank-and-file House and Senate staffers will be forced out of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan (FEHBP) and into the restricted federal health insurance exchanges, but not the leadership or committee congressional staff or the federal civil service bureaucrats who will be making your health care decisions for you.

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March 23, 2010 11:03 am

Organizing Kids for Obama

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by    in Demagoguary,Education,Marxism,Political Correctness,Progressism,Secularism,Socialism

These interns will be given an intensive nine-week training course using comprehensive lesson plans. Assigned readings include Stir It Up: Lessons from Community Organizing and Advocacy by the left-wing activist Rinku Sen, Saul Alinsky’s notorious Rules for Radicals and particular sections of Obama’s Dreams From My Father dealing with Obama’s days as a community organizer in Chicago.

Republican students will be filtered out of the intern program by requiring applicants to answer questions that reveal their politics. One example is, “What one issue facing our country is important to you and why?”

Geller said the purpose of this training to become Alinsky-style community organizers, is “of course, to elect more Democrats.” The internship program is specifically geared to get the kids working in the 2010 elections.

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March 21, 2010 3:37 pm

Key House Democrat: “There Are No Rules Here … We Make Them Up As We Go Along”

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by    in Demagoguary,Healthcare,Humanism,Marxism,Politcal,Secularism,Socialism

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March 19, 2010 2:21 pm

Impeach the president?

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by    in Constitution,Demagoguary,Freedom,Marxism,Politcal

Mr. Obama is imposing a leftist revolution. Since coming to office, he has behaved without any constitutional restraints. The power of the federal government has exploded. He has de facto nationalized key sectors of American life – the big banks, financial institutions, the automakers, large tracts of energy-rich land from Montana to New Mexico. His cap-and-trade proposal, along with a newly empowered Environmental Protection Agency, seeks to impose massive new taxes and regulations upon industry. It is a form of green socialism: Much of the economy would fall under a command-and-control bureaucratic corporatist state. Mr. Obama even wants the government to take over student loans.

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March 17, 2010 9:49 am

Bill Maher to God: Stand Aside for ObamaCare

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by    in Demagoguary,Humanism,Marxism,Secularism

Welcome to the world of Bill Maher. He urges the “vicious, horrible character” known as God, who is less real than the “lint that lives in my navel,” to stand aside while Obama and Pelosi and Reid “scare the American people” into ObamaCare. Maher added his voice to the progressive chorus urging the president to “go gangsta” on the majority of Americans, who, as our president put it, still cling to God and guns.

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March 16, 2010 7:44 am

Palestinian unrest continues in J’lem

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by    in Bible Centered,Demagoguary,Islam,Israel

Thirty one Palestinians have been arrested so far on suspicion of stone-throwing and disruptions. In addition, a Jewish activist who attempted to enter the Temple Mount through the Mughrabi Gate was arrested after he attacked policemen barring his way.

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7:19 am

The Coffee Party Con

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by    in Demagoguary,Marxism,Politcal,Progressism,Redistribution of Wealth

Professional leftists, who assert they speak for the people, just hate it when the people manage to organize themselves to speak out against the Left, as in the prairie fire spread of the Tea Parties. Something had to be done, and in this case, “something” meant creating the Coffee Party movement.

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March 14, 2010 10:29 am

‘Are Liberals, Atheists More Evolved than Conservatives?’

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by    in Demagoguary,Humanism,Political Correctness,Racism,Secularism,Thinking

National Geographic has simply joined the P.C. media mob, and its credibility is paying a price. I would not believe a word in it today — not without running it through the wonderful real-science database PubMed. There you can find truthful science still.

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March 10, 2010 6:50 pm

The Philosophic Roots of Eco-Theology

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by    in Archeology,Demagoguary,Environmental,Marxism,Secularism,Socialism,Thinking

Relativism has been with us since at least the 5th century B.C., when the Greek sophist Protagoras claimed: “Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.” That is, the truth is what we make it. Such a man-centered philosophy cannot help but mire itself in self-referential relativism due to the absence of any transcendent standard.

The growing impatience of late medieval and early Renaissance thinkers with the Scholastic method favored by the Roman Catholic Church and its many schools led at last to an intellectual revolt best exemplified by Rene Descartes’ Discourse on the Method (1637) and his Meditations on First Philosophy (1641).

In a return to ancient Greek sophistry, Descartes made the human mind the measure of all things and reduced God to a mere guarantor, an epistemological “co-signer” of sorts, whose sole substantive role was to assure the truth of whatever Descartes perceived “clearly and distinctly.”

Think of it this way: God becomes the Federal Reserve, with Descartes as Ben Bernanke.

The following century, along came the celebrated Prussian Immanuel Kant. Kant agreed on the primacy of pure reason but amended Descartes by adding a kind of semi-empirical approach that vaguely resembles what we would call “science.”

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March 9, 2010 9:26 pm

Obama using ‘bounty hunters’ to root out fraud

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by    in Demagoguary,Politcal,Redistribution of Wealth,Socialism

Keeping up the pressure in his final push to pass health care overhaul, Obama signed an executive order Tuesday that encourages private auditors to search out improper Medicare and Medicaid payments, from billing errors to outright thievery.

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February 28, 2010 1:06 pm

Obama and Charity

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by    in Bible Centered,Conservatism,Demagoguary,Freedom,Marxism,Politcal,Political Correctness,Progressism,Redistribution of Wealth,Secularism,Socialism,Thinking

Though Obama is fond of quoting scripture about “the least of these” to justify his policy on entitlements, he’s missing a vital part of the equation. Christ’s desire to help those in material need never exceeds his desire to help those who are afflicted spiritually. When Christ speaks of helping the poor, he places primary emphasis not on the poor, but on the prospective giver.

Hence, Jesus says, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” The words reflect his deep knowledge of the need to love and be loved through free-will giving. Christ’s perspective on giving also points to other reasons why entitlements and Christian charity are incompatible — reasons that are rarely if ever considered by either side of the debate.

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1:00 pm

Demolition Man: Building the Anti-America

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by    in Demagoguary,Humanism,Islam,Marxism,Politcal,Redistribution of Wealth,Secularism,Socialism

Barack Obama is proving himself to be a destructive nihilist with capitalism, the Constitution, the Rule of Law, and the traditional American experience in his crosshairs.

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February 27, 2010 10:36 am

Liberal Paranoia About Christian Conservatives

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by    in Bible Centered,Conservatism,Constitution,Demagoguary,Freedom,Secularism

In their penchant for projection, leftists accuse conservatives and Republicans of intolerance, when in fact, their own intolerance dominates the issues of freedom of speech and religion. Liberals accuse conservatives of being theocrats, when they are the ones trying to chill religious freedom and expression.

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