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Left-wing activists in the West display an extraordinary tendency toward cognitive dissonance. They are able to firmly believe in mutually exclusive assertions. Such people often refuse to acknowledge the contradiction between their various beliefs. Thus it is that homosexual activists in Europe and in the U.S. join public demonstrations of sympathy for Islamic terrorists who routinely kill homosexuals for the Islamic crime of being homosexual. I remember when such an absurdity was a joke worthy of a comical movie. Now, it’s a tragic reality. In a video online there is an example of an activist who was hoping to...

There is a little known, and less understood, mental affliction, which I will call transfixion. It is to the mind what setting is to concrete. When freshly mixed with water, concrete is malleable. Once it sets, however, it hardens irreversibly and can no longer be reshaped, or corrected, unless it is cut or broken. The transfixed mind is like that. Before you go leafing through your DSM (psychiatry’s diagnostic manual), don’t bother; transfixion is not there. It is, however, very real. One can observe it when attempting to reason with any committed leftist. The condition is common and has been...