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'rude' isn't the word I would use, but works
Leave it to the SF Chronicle to take a nasty shot at all those brave academics who stood up for the truth and wouldn't let Bellisles get away with his treachery. Jealous of Bellisles? Some of them are more accomplished than he is.
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Thursday, March 7, 2002
The beginning of the end of the left
By Craige McMillan
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
The recent high-profile unraveling of leftist icons, including historian Doris Kearns Goodwin for plagiarism in parlaying the past, Professor Michael Bellesiles for concocting fantasy firearms statistics about yesterday's America in an attempt to disarm today's nation, even as far back as Alfred Kinsey, the would-be sexologist who cooked the books on America's sex habits way back in 1948, is just the tip of the iceberg.
When we look at these events in isolation, we miss the key message: all are elements of the same frayed tenets of leftist philosophy, now accelerating in a tailspin from which there is no recovery.
How could it be otherwise?
The left has built their intellectual, philosophical and political foundation on fantasy and fluff. They have taken the blessings of God given to a nation that unabashedly proclaimed His message to the world, and subverted those foundations and appropriated those blessings of peace and material prosperity to sustain the lifelong leftist campaign of lies and deceit.
To see Goodwin, Bellesiles and Kinsey in less than the full context of their unraveling is to miss history changing the world before our very eyes! The left's intellectual facade is now in level-three collapse: The end of their great social building program is upon us.
During stage one, the leftists overran college campuses, destroyed academic standards they couldn't meet and, as graduate students -- then full professors -- began producing the elementary and secondary school teachers who would spread their fluff-based curriculum through two generations. Their mantra when faced with conservative challenges to their agenda? "There is no scientific evidence to support your demands." As colleges and universities bulged at their tax-supported seams with career leftists, "no evidence" seemed like a permanent delaying tactic.
But a funny thing happened as the leftists erected their facade over schools and colleges across the nation: Rebels within academia found their own funding sources for research -- and cracks began to appear in the newly erected facade. The mantra was revised. Evidence unsupportive of the leftist agenda was now "tainted." The left became increasingly vicious -- "Borking" was born, a warning to good men and women to stay out of the public arena if they valued their reputations. But the timbers holding up the left's facade continued to rot, more from the left's corrosive venom then anything else.
Goodwin, Bellesiles and Kinsey are evidence that we have entered phase three -- the facade has begun to fall backwards upon those who have erected it, crashing down upon the heads of those who struggle with all their might to hold it in place. The cries of "no credible evidence" have been silenced. The left is into damage control: manufactured evidence, the twisted, tortured theft of colleagues' thoughts and written words. The left has nothing of value to say.
The left's religion was godless communism; their heaven was the collectivist state, and their hell the state's enforced drudgery as the working class toiled to support the politically anointed in government and academia who knew what was best for everyone else -- but who couldn't seem to put their own lives in order. With their faith dead, leftists have nothing to sustain them but the raw power of the institutions they've seized. Now their hatred and venom is destroying even these.
We should not be surprised. Jesus described their fate long ago, in one of his famous parables:
Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say? I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice. He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete. (Luke 6:46-49)
As of Tuesday, we could also ask Gary Condit, the seven-term congressman of Chandra Levy fame who lost in a landslide to challenger Dennis Cardoza in California. Richard Riordan, would-be Republican governor, lost on taxes, gun control, abortion and protection of marriage in the same primary election to a real conservative: Bill Simon, Jr.
The left erected their fantasy world of political correctness, homosexual "marriage," the myth of single parenthood and equal outcomes for all in a universe that never existed. Only the money, hope and time they stole from the rest of us sustained it. Now it is all coming down, and we need to mark well our Lord's words: "it collapsed and its destruction was complete." Do not pity the left. Rather, stand up to lead as their phony world collapses.
Craige McMillan is a commentator for WorldNetDaily. He is the founder of CC&M, an exciting new initiative to reshape the way America looks at and interacts with people of faith.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26737
And university professors hate to apologize for ANYthing!
This bodes ill for Professor Bellesiles.
Hehehehe...