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  • Attacking Diversity of Thought: To Liberals, 'Diversity' Really Means Intellectual Conformity

    02/21/2014 7:26:37 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 13 replies
    National Review ^ | 02/21/2014 | Jonah Goldberg
    Cancel the philosophy courses, people. Oh, and we’re going to be shuttering the political science, religion, and pre-law departments too. We’ll keep some of the English and history folks on for a while longer, but they should probably keep their résumés handy. Because, you see, they are of no use anymore. We have the answers to the big questions, so why keep pretending there’s anything left to discuss? At least that’s where Erin Ching, a student at Swarthmore College, seems to be coming down. Her school invited a famous left-wing Princeton professor, Cornel West, and a famous right-wing Princeton professor,...
  • Cuomo forces “conservative” Remington out of New York; Democrats force Occidental out of California

    02/20/2014 9:26:41 AM PST · by Oldpuppymax · 17 replies
    Coach is Right ^ | 2/20/14 | Kevin "Coach" Collins
    This week brought two sharp reminders of what our country will increasingly look like should Democrats be given complete control of our lives. Here’s why we cannot give up the fight for our freedoms. Last month the Democrat Governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, told a public radio host he thought, “….extreme conservatives” who are “right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay,” have “no place in the state of New York.” Honesty like this, even on a public radio station few people actually listen to, is rare for any politician especially a Democrat. Given the size of his audience Cuomo was likely using...
  • Father Salvany and "offensive" discourse...

    02/20/2014 7:53:05 AM PST · by cleghornboy · 2 replies
    La Salette Journey ^ | February 20, 2014 | Paul Melanson
    In Chapters twenty and twenty-One of his excellent book Liberalism is a Sin, Father Felix Sarda Y Salvany, a noted philosopher of his day, writes: "Liberalism never gives battle on solid ground; it knows too well that in a discussion of principles it must meet with irretrievable defeat. It prefers tactics of recrimination and, under the sting of a just flagellation, whiningly accuses Catholics of lack of charity in their polemics. This is also the ground which certain Catholics, tainted with Liberalism, are in the habit of taking. Let us see what is to be said on this score. We...
  • Reagan Biographer Craig Shirley: GOP Resembles a Crime Family

    02/19/2014 11:36:33 AM PST · by xzins · 28 replies
    Conservative HQ ^ | 2/18/14 | CHQ Staff |
    Yesterday our old friend Craig Shirley, chronicler of Ronald Reagan’s five-decade war of ideas against liberalism and communism, defined the national Republican Party this way in an interview with Brietbart’s Michael Patrick Leahy: "The Washington Republican party is no longer a political party in the way we understand political parties. It more resembles a crime family than a movement of ideas." Shirley was commenting on the charge that the reason Congress has not gotten to the bottom of the IRS targeting of conservatives and Tea Party movement groups is because the establishment GOP wants the IRS to hobble these groups...
  • One More Freedom Fighter

    02/18/2014 9:19:12 AM PST · by Oldpuppymax
    Coach is Right ^ | 2/18/14 | David Dunnington
    The world teeters on the precipice of entering either a lasting era of darkness, or an era of jubilant rebirth and renewal. If just one more voice is required to fuel the flames of freedom, which I believe is the path to the latter, I offer my voice for that cause. Just like so many of you across this once and still great nation, I am jaded by the lack of representation, despite an ever burdening sea of regulation and taxation, as well as a cultural assault which seeks to undermine our traditions and drive a wedge between every demographic...
  • The War is on Manly Virtue

    02/14/2014 9:01:39 AM PST · by TurboZamboni · 4 replies
    Intellectual Takeout ^ | 2-14-14 | Devin C. Foley
    One year ago today, Intellectual Takeout had one of its most illuminating Facebook posts and corresponding reactions. Ever. Being Valentine’s Day, we decided to share definitions of the “four loves” from C.S. Lewis’ book of the same name. The first love we shared was Affection, which is best exemplified in the love of parents for offspring and offspring for parents. It got lots of likes, though more from females. All in all, predictable. The second love we shared was Friendship. Here’s what we wrote in our Facebook post: And the second love? Friendship. “When either Affection or Eros is one’s...
  • Rough Seas on 'Noah': Darren Aronofsky Opens Up on the Biblical Battle....

    02/13/2014 6:00:58 AM PST · by 4Runner · 55 replies
    The Hollywood Reporter ^ | February 12, 2014 | Kim Masters
    The trouble began when Paramount, nervous about how audiences would respond to Aronofsky's fantastical world and his deeply conflicted Noah, insisted on conducting test screenings over the director's vehement objections while the film was a work in progress. Friction grew when a segment of the recruited Christian viewers, among whom the studio had hoped to find Noah's most enthusiastic fans, questioned the film's adherence to the Bible story and reacted negatively to the intensity and darkness of the lead character. Aronofsky's Noah gets drunk, for example, and considers taking drastic measures to eradicate mankind from the planet. Hoping to woo...
  • Thought-Provoking, Pro-Life Memorial to 'The Child Who Was Never Born' in Slovakia...

    02/12/2014 9:34:40 AM PST · by Reaganite Republican · 14 replies
    Reaganite Republican ^ | 12 February 2014 | Reaganite Republican
    Created by young Slovak sculpture Martin Hudáček, the work is meant to capture 'the devestation' abortion can bring to a woman, and the 'pain, mercy, and forgiveness' for those who -sadly- chose to terminate a pregnancy... The Roman Catholic artist added that said the sculpture also 'expresses hope which is given to believers by the One who died on the cross for us, and showed how much He cares about all of us.' Amen to that... LifeSite News   Rose and Her Lilly   h/t UE McGill
  • Chrissie Hynde's daughter 'superglued herself to fellow fracking protester'

    02/11/2014 7:51:52 AM PST · by Sub-Driver · 85 replies
    Chrissie Hynde's daughter 'superglued herself to fellow fracking protester' Natalie Hynde, whose father is musician Ray Davies, is on trial for the incident at the main gate of energy firm Cuadrilla's test drilling plant near Balcombe, West Sussex By Hayley Dixon, and agencies 2:26PM GMT 11 Feb 2014 Natalie Hynde, the daughter of The Kinks singer Ray Davies and The Pretenders' star Chrissie Hynde, superglued herself to a fellow anti-fracking protester outside the main gate of an exploratory oil drilling site, a court has heard. Miss Hynde, 31, and Simon Medhurst, 55, are jointly charged over the incident at the...
  • North Carolina NAACP President William Barber leads Moral March on Raleigh (80,000 libs)

    02/10/2014 1:12:42 PM PST · by tcrlaf · 33 replies
    ABC11 ^ | 2-9-14 | ABC11
    North Carolina NAACP President William Barber led a massive group Saturday morning through downtown Raleigh in the "Historic Thousands on Jones Street," now turned "Moral March on Raleigh." It was part of their continuing fight against the Republican led legislature. The march follows the 13 Moral Mondays seen in Raleigh over the summer, and then several more that followed throughout the state. Now it is back, fusing with the annual "HK on J" march. (SNIP) Organizers of the march made five demands: • Secure pro-labor, anti-poverty policies that insure economic sustainability. • Provide well-funded, quality public education for all. •...
  • Poorly educated and lied to, Blacks at UCLA call correcting their grammar and punctuation racist

    02/10/2014 9:45:13 AM PST · by Oldpuppymax · 109 replies
    Coach is Right ^ | 2/10/14 | Kevin "Coach" Collins
    It’s hard to figure out what to make of the people in this story. Should these people be laughed at or pitied? Recently a group of 25 self-described “Students of Color” held a sit-in to support poor English writing skills. They whined about the “racism” of being offered constructive criticism of their lack of grammar, spelling and punctuation abilities. As products of dysfunctional government schools, many if not all of them have little or no writing skill. Many of them don’t know they have no writing skills. They have been lied to and had their heads patted so often by...
  • Do Liberals Care if Third World Illnesses Infect Americans?

    02/10/2014 8:50:07 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 35 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 02/10/2014 | Jeannie DeAngelis
    One of the favorite pastimes of liberalism is to try to inflict guilt on people of European descent for being part of a lineage that they believe, in the words of Bill Ayers at the Dartmouth Debate with Dinesh D'Souza, "murdered" the American Indians by way of contagious disease. Calling it the "European Invasion," liberals believe that prior to Christopher Columbus' arrival American Indians were virtually disease-free.  Never mind that syphilis, which originated in the New World, was brought back to Europe, where spirochete bacterium was not present until after Columbus and his fellow discoverers returned in 1493. The...
  • 9/11 Truther Rosie O'Donnell: My Son Joined the Military to 'Annoy' His 'Left-Wing' Mother

    02/07/2014 2:33:40 PM PST · by Kaslin · 88 replies
    NewsBusters.org ^ | February 7, 2014 | Scott Whitlock
    Returning to The View seven years after departing in an angry, liberal tirade, Rosie O'Donnell sat down with Barbara Walters and some of her former colleagues on Friday. Updating everyone on life since the show, she revealed that Parker, her now 18-year-old son, will be attending the Citadel. The 9/11 truther snapped, "...How do you annoy your left-wing liberal pacifist mother? You become a big military man." [See video below. MP3 audio here.] O'Donnell admitted she interrogated her son as to why he made such a decision and he responded, "Only in America, mom, could somebody like you who came from...
  • Here’s why America is upside down and has left us

    02/07/2014 10:19:00 AM PST · by Oldpuppymax · 4 replies
    Coach is Right ^ | 2/7/14 | Kevin "Coach" Collins
    Some of these points are more painful than others, but they’re all spot on. Today American citizens are more afraid of the American government than illegal aliens are. The DoJ doesn’t see criminality in threatening voters with truncheons, but is prosecuting an American citizen for making a video Obama doesn’t like. The government now decides what will go on top of wedding cakes. Abortionists are cheered and those who protest...
  • The frugal Harry Reid will save America for just $3

    02/05/2014 10:42:21 AM PST · by Oldpuppymax · 4 replies
    Coach is Right ^ | 2/5/14 | Suzanne Eovaldi
    Harry Reid’s Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (dscc.org) is in full panic mode as it is begging something, anything, just $3.00 from the little guys because “the GOP could ride a wave to the majority.” More strident cyberspace appeals are flooding loyal Democrat supporters pleading for as little as $2.00 and change which will “be triple matched for the next 36 hours.” Elizabeth Warren is upset. She says, “Friend, a full year out from my election, Karl Rove’s Super PAC ran two attack ads against me…dark and creepy…telling voters I was a Wall Street-loving Zombie.” She is painting a very dark...
  • Diversity has been given a bad name by “progressives”

    02/05/2014 9:20:03 AM PST · by Oldpuppymax · 5 replies
    Coach is Right ^ | 2/5/14 | Jerry Todd
    Today’s “progressive” has such a limited mindset, it’s a wonder they can find their way to the bathroom in the morning. Being severely “corpus colosum challenged” – meaning they cannot process and integrate left and right brain signals (except for designing video games) to arrive at cogent and reasonable conclusions. An ancient text referred to this as “ever learning, but never coming to the knowledge of truth…” Diversity in their limited perception means merely simple human divisions of race, gender, ethnicity and economic status – with today’s strange nod to sexual “preference.” True diversity goes infinitely deeper into the endless...
  • The Liberal Newcomers: What Mass Migration from Third World Countries Will Produce

    02/03/2014 5:22:03 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 46 replies
    National Review ^ | 02/03/2014 | Phyllis Schlafly
    People come to America because it is a remarkable oasis of freedom, prosperity, and opportunity. Conservatives recognize that the principal reason for our unique abundance is our constitutional restraint on the power of government. As Thomas Jefferson said, “In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Maintaining this system requires the public to support limited government. In a new report, Eagle Forum details how immigration is fundamentally changing the electorate to one that is much more supportive of big government. By itself, the...
  • Never mind sending your tired and your poor, Democrats just want your money!

    02/02/2014 8:30:43 AM PST · by Oldpuppymax · 2 replies
    Coach is Right ^ | 2/2/14 | Suzanne Eovaldi
    Harry Reid and his Democrat Senate Campaign Committee (DSCC) are launching all out send me some money pleas to combat those old meanies, the Koch Brothers who “have already severely outspent the Democrats” in six battleground states that hold the key to a Senate takeover in November. Saying the consequences could be “ABSOLUTELY DIRE,” Reid and Senate Dems are warning that recent polls favor a Republican control shift because the math already is baked in. “That’s why it’s absolutely critical that 10,000 folks step up in the next 96 hours to respond. . .if we can’t fill the gap in...
  • Probably the most spot on metaphor for voting liberal ever created

    02/01/2014 2:47:24 PM PST · by The Looking Spoon · 11 replies
    The Looking Spoon ^ | 2-1-14 | The Looking Spoon
    Liberals always mock conservative criticism of their policies because they don't ruin the country overnight. In many/most instances it takes decades of build up (like the incremental bloating of the entitlement/welfare system).Here's another really awesome way to put it...
  • Putin Preaches Godliness to America

    02/01/2014 2:18:12 PM PST · by Hojczyk · 76 replies
    American Thinker ^ | February 1,2014 | Jeannie DeAngelis
    That's why it's pretty chilling to hear Vladimir Putin hurling accusations at the West and pointing out that what's going on is identical to what went on when communism was established and religion was completely expunged from the Soviet Union. Between 1917 and 1937, almost a quarter of a million Christians were executed, and churches that survived destruction were converted into things like museums of atheism. Russian President Putin, who hasn't been shy about expressing his disapproval of homosexuality and has banned what he defined as "homosexual propaganda," had this to say: Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their...