Bending Over Backward: A Biased Look at Left-wing Censorship

While
there are many positive points in this book about demonizing opponents,
listening to opposing views, and even a critique of the idea that equal
opportunity demands equal outcomes, the authors’ unwillingness to even
consider the totalitarian impulse that is baked into the DNA of
leftism makes it a difficult read.  And while there is much to praise
when topics like overprotective parenting and even cognitive behavioral
therapy are considered, the links between these matters and the book’s
primary focus on the suppression of political speech are tenuous and
function more to divert attention from the factor that most promotes the
“three great untruths” – leftism.  But perhaps diluted versions of the
truth is all that can, with trepidation, be expressed among academics
and students who regularly vilify and threaten individuals who don’t
support authoritative dicta vis-à-vis Halloween costumes.

Bending Over Backward: A Biased Look at Left-wing Censorship

10 Questions About the Compatibility of Islam with America

…1) Does Islam belong in America? The
companion question is, are Americans willing to take steps to
neutralize the threat of Islam? In its current form, with the explicit
goal of a global caliphate under Sharia, Islam must be regarded as an
existential threat. Specific ways are needed to deal with an ideology
that openly seeks to destroy Western Civilization. What could be done to
deal with this threat? Before it is too late, consider these steps:

•
Our political leaders should openly acknowledge the threat of
traditional Islam to a pluralistic democracy and insist that Islamic
institutions formally and in practice reject violent jihad as a
condition for tax exempt status.

• Our schools should teach the violent history and core beliefs of Islam including the strict rules and requirements of Sharia law while contrasting that with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

• Muslim leaders who preach violence should be aggressively prosecuted for incitement.

•
Congress should pass laws outlawing foreign financing of mosques or at a
minimum require full reciprocity with Muslim countries granting
complete religious freedom for Christian, Jewish or other groups to
establish houses of worship and to openly proselytize their faiths….

10 Questions About the Compatibility of Islam with America

Why Suburban Women Cost the Republicans the House

Don’t
get me wrong – there are many intelligent, serious conservative women
in Fairfax County (not to mention the nation as a whole), but they are
sadly in the minority. From my limited and unscientific perspective, the
reason most suburban women voted for Democrats can be divided into
three categories:

1. They don’t have to think seriously.

2. They have never been taught to think seriously.

3. They really don’t want to think seriously.

I
don’t know what is going to happen over the next two years. Are we in
the Kondratiev Winter, the Fourth Turning, or the Last Days? Maybe God
will show us his displeasure through more serious natural disasters.
Maybe, the financial system will experience the reset as predicted.
Maybe, a war will unite us if it is not too late. Whatever the case, I
hope suburban women figure it out before 2020.

Why Suburban Women Cost the Republicans the House

The Dangerously Unified States of America | National Review

I raise this point not to say that America is poised for
that level of unrest, but to merely highlight a trend that, combined
with other trends (such as negative polarization and the so-called “big
sort” in which Americans are voluntarily clustering with like-minded
neighbors), means that we are moving to a new reality for modern
America. Geographically contiguous, culturally similar, and economically
potent American regions are now also increasingly politically uniform.

It is imperative that the national government adapt to this reality.
One party or the other will of course control the White House and may
(briefly) control both houses of the legislature, but if either party
overreaches in its short period of total control, it will trigger a
furious response. And the greater the attempted power grab (say, ending
the legislative filibuster, followed by court-packing or single-payer),
the greater the response.

Politically unified states can be bold. A federal government
presiding over perilously divided American regions should be cautious.
Any other approach will only increase the bitterness and rancor of
American political life, and we cannot presume our nation will always
survive its widespread rage.

The Dangerously Unified States of America | National Review

Great Republics, and How They Fall, a la Cicero | The Stream

“We make
ourselves popular,” wrote John Adams in 1814, “by telling our
fellow-citizens that we have made discoveries, conceived inventions, and
made improvements. We may boast that we are the chosen people; we may
even thank God that we are not like other men; but, after all, it will
be but flattery, and the delusion, the self-deceit of the Pharisee.”

If we’re to preserve the American Republic, we must recover the
historical and moral sobriety of its Founders.  There is zero historical
precedent for any society remaining free while abandoning this
sobriety.  None.

Therefore, we Americans should read the 2,000-year-old “headlines” of
Cicero and others, rather than the endless stream of irrelevancies that
fill our present.

Our very freedom depends on it.

Great Republics, and How They Fall, a la Cicero | The Stream

celticpyro:

Remind me again why the stereotypical “smart” character is always some antisocial atheist pseudo-nihilist who doesn’t believe in love and thinks emotions are unimportant like literally none of those things have anything to do with intelligence and most of them are hallmarks of stupidity.