Silence on cousin marriage is the unspeakable face of liberalism
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The Sunday Times ^
| December 15, 2024 | Matthew Syed
Science has been corrupted. I hate to say it, but it’s the only conclusion I can reach after months of researching cousin marriage — a ban on which was debated in parliament last week. It’s
been a period of frustration, obfuscation and institutional omerta: the antithesis of the open inquiry described so eloquently by Plato and Popper. Let me start by telling you about Dr Patrick Nash, a somewhat shy legal academic who in 2017 came across an intriguing finding. He noticed that much of the “extremism” emanating from Pakistani communities seemed to have a “clan” component. The perpetrators were...
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How The Migrant Crisis Destroyed American Liberalism
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AMAC Newsline ^
| 17 Jan, 2024 | Walter Samuel
On January 9, students at James Madison High School in Brooklyn discovered that they would be spending the next two days in front of their computer screens learning from home. But
it wasn’t the usual winter weather causing this cancellation of in-person classes – instead, it was because the city of New York was planning to move nearly 2,000 illegal migrants from their encampment and resettle them at the school, displacing the students. The move prompted understandable outrage from parents and recriminations from local officials who pleaded helplessness. What were they supposed to do? Allow the migrants to freeze to...
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Rapid Cross Denominational Apostasy: Christianity and Functional Liberalism (or How Evangelicalism Denies the Faith)
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PatriotandLiberty ^
| 11/23 | Bryan Laughlin, Doug Ponder
What are we to make of this rapid, cross-denominational apostasy?2 The
fact of this phenomenon is a clear example of culture reporter Megan Basham’s recent warning: “You may have wanted to avoid this subject, but you cannot avoid it any longer. [LGBT ideology] is coming to your church, no matter how solid you think it is.”3 Those who cannot see this are woefully ignorant of the times. Yet the cause of this phenomenon is anything but recent. Indeed, the “journey” that leads to this dead end (let the reader understand) is so well worn that one can see it from...
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Central Europe turns postliberal: Nations like Hungary and Poland have grown tired of the hyper-individualism and moral squalor that liberalism has to offer
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American Thinker ^
| 10/31/2023 | Meg Hansen
In his seminal 1984 essay, “The Tragedy of Central Europe,” Czech author Milan Kundera describes Central Europeans as cultural descendants of ancient Rome and the Catholic Church who were “kidnapped and displaced” by the USSR after World War II. The hostages longed to break free from the talons of communism, shedding blood
and tears for forty years. However, when the Iron Curtain finally fell, they were shocked to find that the West had lost interest in preserving all that had made its civilization exceptional. Post-communist countries like Hungary and Poland adopted liberalism as the state organizing logic only to discover...
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The Cult of Liberalism (Sunbray)
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ForestforOregon.com ^
| 9/17/23 | bray
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Genesis
11:4 King James Version All the libs want to talk about anymore is Global Warming or Weather Change which is code speak for Worshiping the Earth. If you do not believe Weather Change is real then you are a science denying heretic since it is now officially settled science. More settled science just like Darwinism, Peak Oil, Acid Rain, Cold-19...
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Science: Liberalism is a Mental Defect
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anncoultersubstack ^
| Mar 26, 2023 | Ann Coulter
Academic research consistently finds the same pattern. Conservatives
do not just report higher levels of happiness, they also report higher levels of meaning in their lives. [I]n an analysis looking at ninety countries from 1981 through 2014, the social psychologists Olga Stavrova and Maike Luhmann found “the positive association between conservative ideology and happiness only rarely reversed. Liberals were happier than conservatives in only 5 out of 92 countries and never in the United States.”It is empirically unclear why this pattern is so ubiquitous, not just in the contemporary United States but also historically (virtually as far back as the...
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Liberalism is the systemic racism that liberals complain about
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Washington Examiner via msn ^
| 01 Feb 2023 | Zachary Faria
Liberals have spent the last few years obsessing over systemic racism, and yet they are the ones perpetuating it. Over
the past two decades, nearly 200,000 black New Yorkers moved out of New York City, a decline of 9% of its black population. The New York Times lists several reasons for the decline, including “concerns about school quality,” but one issue reigns supreme: Black people, especially parents, are simply being priced out of living in New York City.... So where does the “national trend of younger black professionals, middle-class families, and retirees leaving cities” lead to? It leads to those...
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The Case for Bringing Back Neckties (and Classical Liberalism)
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FEE ^
| November 28, 2022 | Bruce Rothman
With its humble beginnings being worn by Croatian mercenaries in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), its subsequent promotion by French absolutist monarch Louis XIV, and its continual evolution since then, the necktie has become a fairly common “formal” accessory for men.
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Classical liberalism vs. The New Right
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Marginal Revolution ^
| October 19, 2022 | Tyler Cowen
It has become increasingly clear that the political Right in America is not what it used to be. In
particular, my own preferred slant of classical liberalism is being replaced. In its stead are rising alternatives that don’t yet have a common name. Some are called “national conservatism,” and some (by no means all) strands are pro-Trump, but I will refer to the New Right. My use of the term covers a broad range of sources, from Curtis Yarvin to J.D. Vance to Adrian Vermeule to Sohrab Ahmari to Rod Dreher to Tucker Carlson, and also a lot of anonymous...
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The Psychopathology of Liberalism
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American Thinker ^
| 29 Aug, 2022 | Pete McArdle
As the late, great Rush Limbaugh liked to say, "You can't spell LIBERALISM without L-I-E-S." It's those lies that make your typical liberal so neurotic and out of touch with reality —because you can fool others with falsehoods, misdirection, and nonsense, but except in rare cases, you can't fool yourself. So
by actively participating in the religion and sacraments of liberalism, all based on lies, lefties literally make themselves crazy. Take racism. Libs would like you to think that in today's America, only white people are racist. But even a cursory examination of just which people are attacking innocent Asians...
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Hungary’s Orban calls for American conservatives to unite with him against progressive liberalism
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The Washington Times ^
| Aug 4 | By Kerry Picket
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called on conservative political activists in Dallas on Thursday to join him and his European supporters in defeating progressive liberalism. Mr.
Orbán, who addressed crowds as a featured speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas, said he wanted to “unite forces” with American conservatives against progressives because “we Hungarians know how to defeat the enemies of freedom on the political battlefield.” “We Hungarians defeated communism, which was forced on us by Soviet troops and arms,” Mr. Orbán said. “It took a while. We began our fight in 1956 and won in 1990. But...
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From Liberalism to Neoliberalism, Francis Fukayama's Latest
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Sri Lanka Guardian ^
| May 22, 2022 | Francis Fukuyama
From Liberalism to Neoliberalism Sri Lanka Guardian •May 22, 2022 Neoliberalism had problematic consequences in its support of free trade. The
basic doctrine is correct: countries that lower trade barriers with one another will see markets and efficiency expand, leading to higher aggregate incomes for all parties concerned. by Francis Fukuyama Following excerpts adapted from author's new book, Liberalism and Its Discontents published by Profile Books One of the critical domains in which liberal ideas were taken to extremes lay in economic thought, where liberalism evolved into what has been labeled “neoliberalism.” Neoliberalism is often used today as a pejorative...
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Liberalism and the Problem of Evil
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American Thinker ^
| 17 May, 2022 | Philip Ahlrich
No one can speak of evil without mentioning its attraction to the Democrat Party, which is now the party of official racism in America. Political evil is a contagion of psychological immaturity, self-delusion, and counterfeit justification, and its virus has spread throughout America's liberal ruling class. Its
influence has scoured our nation of its fundamental values, and leftists are intent upon creating a state apparatus that facilitates the separation of children from their parents, criminals from justice, and citizens from the Bill of Rights. This is a call to Marxist socialism that has no past and no possibility of a...
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Classical Liberalism: A Guide on Its Definition and How It Came to Be
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Libertas Bella ^
| 5/9/2022 | Jose Nino
What is classical liberalism? And what does it mean to be a classically liberal? Classical
liberalism refers to the philosophy of individual liberty, property rights, and rule of law that dominated the West from the late 1700s until the mid-1900s. As history shows, however, words can take new meanings over time. The word liberalism has been in the English lexicon for centuries, but its definition has changed over the course of the 20th century. In fact, the changes have been so significant that political scientists have to qualify liberalism prior to the twentieth century as classical liberalism. By contrast, they...
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The Three Slogans of Liberalism
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Townhall.com ^
| May 1, 2022 | Marvin Folkertsma
If George Orwell had reduced The Three Slogans of the Party in Nineteen Eighty-Four to three words, he might have chosen Peace, Freedom, and Strength. But the absence of sentiments implied by these concepts would have left readers puzzled and angry. Orwell
was too honest for this subterfuge and too clever, as well; hence, he launched his dystopian account with a pair of beguiling contradictions that require explanation, and an adage that applies to every totalitarian system. Thus, War is Peace means that conflict “eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and…helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a...
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Liberalism Can Never Accept the Real Christ
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American Thinker.com ^
| April 17, 2022 | Paul Krause
The central truth of Christianity is that Christ is not only the Son of God but that he came to suffer and redeem us by his sacrificial atonement. In
this world of suffering, the suffering of Christ alleviates ours and heals us of our brokenness. Liberals, however, cannot abide by this Christ because they see the state, not Christ, as the path to redemption. Christianity asserts that the world is broken, as such the world needed to be healed by a Love that took on this brokenness and wounds of the world. Another central claim of Christianity, one that is...
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Glenn Greenwald: "For US liberalism, censorship is a virtual religion now"
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twitter ^
| Jan 29 | Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald Remember that NBC lured @MegynKelly away from Fox with a $69 million contract but chose to fire her after 6 months and pay her rather than withstand liberal anger. At
some point, Spotify will face the same choice with Joe Rogan: how much are they willing to lose to keep him? Obviously, Spotify is not going to get rid of Rogan over Neil Young or Joni Mitchell. But for US liberalism, censorship is a virtual religion now, so they will start pressuring bigger names to do this. They try to make any platform toxic which allows dissent from liberal...
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Putin appeals to his citizens to reject Western "progressive liberalism" not least because it echoes Bolshevism:
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Twitter ^
| 1/12/2022 | Dr Jordan B Peterson
Russia's New 'Conservative' Ideology To Counter Liberalism ...
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Liberalism Eats Its Own
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Townhall.com ^
| January 6, 2022 | Derek Hunter
There are few joys in life quite as fun as watching liberals attacking other liberals; when the head of the snake that is the progressive culture whips around and bites one of its own. It
happens more often than you think – there’s always an activist professor who missed a memo and used an out of date term or said something recently declared unacceptable who is not fighting for their jobs, but every once in a while it gets higher profile, and therefore even more fun. Such is this case out of Hollywood. Helen Murren is a great actress, with...
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Government's pervasive oppression is converting people from liberalism
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American Thinker ^
| 21 Dec, 2021 | Spruce Fontaine
Good luck getting anything done in liberal America without miles of government red tape — even if you're a liberal. Government
is a most discouraging aspect of existence because it is a pervasive given. In the hearts of 99 percent of readers is the desire to be left alone by government. My daughter-in-law started a small charity venture several years ago, and it has grown wildly. She was originally of a liberal bent but now sees government negatively intruding into her efforts. She may not be on board the Trump train, but she has jumped over to the libertarian track....
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