Posted on 12/27/2015 4:16:59 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Excellent commentary by VDH!
I’ve said a few times here and to family and friends - the Left is thisclose to regular violence. It’s just a matter of where and about what.
Teach division, get division
“From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to selfishness;
From selfishness to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”
~Alexander Tytler
VDH - another brilliant column. What an impressive observer / writer.
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The answer appears to be more range time.
He is seen here in native Kenyan garb in a rare shot recently discovered in a White House burn bag that somehow escaped the newly installed White House diesel powered, water-cooled Acme 3000 Super Shredder. It was sent to us by a former White House shredder tender (who wished to remain anonymous -- and hasn't been heard from for over 2 months!).
I think Obama’s cousin there self-identifies as a woman. He’s got so real interesting moob’s for a man.;-)
Another gem from VDH.
Civil wars are often more virulent than other types of conflict. The rage often originates from within. Familiarity breeds contempt and excites age-old envies and jealousies amid claims of betrayal and sellout.
Looks kind of like Free Republic these days.
The planted axiom of Alinsky, the planted axiom of the whole of leftism, is “liberal biasinof ‘the media.’”None of it propagates if mass organs of opinion expression are conservative. The burning question always was,
why the “liberalism” in “the media?”
I am satisfied that I know the answer. It is no more complicated than the fact that “the media” - actually, wire service journalism (basically but not exclusively the AP, and considering the member propaganda organs which contribute to, and consume, the AP newswire feed) - constitutes an establishment which is only to be expected to be “liberal.”
Understand, the term “liberal” does not have the same meaning in the US as it has elsewhere nor, indeed, the same meaning it had before 1920. In the US but not elsewhere, the meaning of “liberalism” was changed - essentially inverted - in the 1920s. Now, in America, it means socialism. Before 1920 it meant the opposite. And IMHO the best way to define the opposite of socialism is Theodore Roosevelt’s
It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . . who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds . . . ÂThe opposite of that pean to individual effort and responsibility is socialism, and IMHO it is best encapsulated by Elizabeth Warren’sIf you’ve got a business, you did’t build that.Journalists do not do things, journalists are critics. And wire services, constituting as they do virtual meetings of “people of the same trade” (Adam Smith) of journalism, inevitably bring out the worst in journalists. And the worst of criticism is cynicism, and the effect of cynicism directed at capitalism is - socialism. Alinsky is pure cynicism.
That’s right; they lived by the sword, and hopefully die by it...
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