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Category Archives: Left
Liberal Hand-Wringing about P.C.
On campuses today, “microaggressions” and “trigger warnings” are logical entailments of the dialectics of Political Correctness, and serve as a more militant re-packaging of first generation P.C. circa 1991. Jonathan Chait, himself a liberal, bemoans things, especially insofar as P.C. … Continue reading
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Walzer: Islamism & the Left
Writing in Dissent, longtime Jewish enthocentrist lefty Michael Walzer discusses “Islamism and the Left“. It’s almost embarassing to listen to (or read) the Left contort itself into a pretzel while discussing Islam. As the reality of contemporary Islam becomes more … Continue reading
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A Look Inside the Anti-Police Protest Movement
In a must-read piece, James Piereson gives us “A Look Inside the Anti-Police Protest Movement“. Remember that story a few weeks ago where: On the evening of December 13, several hundred supporters of the movement marched across the Brooklyn Bridge … Continue reading
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The Stone Butch Communist
Rod Dreher discusses ‘transgender pioneer’ Leslie Feinberg, who recently died (“The Stone Butch Communist“.) From the obituary her partner wrote for The Advocate: Leslie Feinberg, who identified as an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist, died … Continue reading
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Rep. Samuel Dickstein
In Politico, Peter Duffy profiles Samuel Dickstein, a Jewish émigré from Lithuania who became a U.S. Congressman (and later a NY State Supreme Court justice) and who, as a U.S. Congressman, actively spied for the Soviet Union: Samuel Dickstein was … Continue reading
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Global Crises
From The Organizer’s speech to the U.N. today: I realize that America’s critics will be quick to point out that at times we too have failed to live up to our ideals; that America has plenty of problems within our … Continue reading
Eric Hobsbawm: Marxist and…
Eric Hobsbawm, the late British historian, ardent communist, and Stalin apologist, was as unflinching in his authoritarian utopianism as any. From a recent article on “The Bourgeois Eric Hobsbawm” by David Bell: IN A FAMOUS exchange in 1994, Michael Ignatieff … Continue reading
Life imitates The Onion: Pt. 24,198
With the whole ‘innocent black youth’ mania we are now witnessing, the instances of the Left doubling-down on their absurdities continues to compound. In The Nation, we have “The Murder of Black Youth Is a Reproductive Justice Issue”.
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Talking Points
From the Politico story where Glenn Greenwald and other liberals praise Megyn Kelly, I laughed at this paragraph: While the Fox host is credited with not being afraid to grill Fox friends like Dick Cheney, a review of her top … Continue reading
Is Paul Ryan Racist?
“Is Paul Ryan Racist?“, by one Ian Haney López, is #2 on Politico right now. That’s how unhinged the liberal media has become. An article with that title A) gets published, and B) gets play. Pathetic.