An oft-repeated refrain is that Americans are more divided than ever before. Now David Neiwert says that Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann should be censured for saying the media investigate members of Congress who hold anti-American views. True, Bachmann’s statement is not worthy of a Congresswoman. But there’s more to consider, as I discuss below. First,…
Category: Conservatism
More (Un)Fairness Doctrine
Stephen Green knows that the Fairness Doctrine is anything but. How could it possibly represent fair outcomes given its birth in a bastard Congress and possessing a name like that? Stephen writes: If (when?) Obama is elected, by my estimation there’s an at least even chance that the newly-reconstructed FCC will reverse course and attempt…
The Intellectual Left and Censorship
It’s common knowledge that conservatives are old, white-haired, white-skinned men with money who don’t care what anyone thinks save for those like them. The corollary is that it’s the left who are the staunch defenders of freedom in everything from retroactive birth control to homosexual marriage to free speech. Everyone knows that. Unfortunately there’s one…
Red-staters in NYC? Get Outta Here!
This video is extremely educational when it comes to the mindset and core values of the American left. At 5 minutes long, it says everything you need to know. It never ceases to amaze me how utterly intolerant the defenders of multiculturalistic tolerance really are. It’s so sad. Really, I mean that. You’d think years…
So Close to Understanding
As in the conservative camp, there are smart liberals and dumb ones. When I encounter one of the former, my usual reaction is horror at the enormity of what such an intelligent person might do with his/her unfortunate ideals. Yet sometimes they give me hope. Christy Hardin-Smith shows signs of being such a person. Today…
Chilling Effect in Canada
Kathy Shaidle reports that she and other bloggers are being sued by Richard Warman, a former member of Canada’s Human Rights Commission and frivolous lawsuit filer extraordinaire: Canada’s busiest litigant, serial "human rights" complainant and — the guy Mark Steyn has called "Canada’s most sensitive man" — Richard Warman is now suing his most vocal…
What We All Want
A well-known commentator said the following yesterday in response to Barack Obama’s speech. Without peeking, who do you think the author is and does the statement stand on its own to definitively define the difference between conservatives and liberals? We all want opportunity for our kids. We all want a growing, expanding economy. The argument…
David Mamet, Former Liberal
One would suspect David Mamet, author of Glengarry Glen Roll and screenwriter of Wag the Dog, of having a liberal’s view of the world. Indeed, Mamet admits to having long done so. Now, in must-read/forward for anyone lamenting over a left-leaning loved one, Mamet writes in the Village Voice that he was wrong all those…
Testing John McCain, Pork Buster
Robert Novak brightened my day by writing that John "I’m the Sheriff" McCain and his Republican colleagues will be at odds this week over the practice of earmarking, which big-name Republicans decry even as they rack up massive amounts of pork for the voters back home. Sen. Jim DeMint, a first-term reform Republican from South…
Switching Sides
Pete Abel says: Last week, I crossed party lines to vote for Obama in the Missouri primary. Last night, I noted that I’m increasingly likely to do the same in November. … Challenge me. Rebuke me. Never let me off the hook. Make me work for what I am starting to believe. Well, here goes,…