…to be consistent with a Civilized Society, that all men must be treated as if they were equal by our Government, and under our laws and jurisdiction, that Civilized People have determined that our citizens have inalienable rights, such as,…
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Does anyone really hold those truths to be self-evident?
The Constitution, our dear Constitution, did not give us our rights. Our rights came from God and they are inalienable rights. The Constitution created the government to protect our God-given and unalienable rights. Thus Sarah Palin in her speech earlier…
Posted in Books, Political Philosophy, Politics, US History Tagged with: Barack Obama, Conservatism, Declaration of Independence, Founders, John Locke, libertarianism, natural rights, Sarah Palin, Thomas Jefferson
raving cluelessly about eugenics…
…makes conservatives look backwards and unscientific, two brandings that conservatism should avoid because that turns off the youth, college-educated, and scientists and academe, all demographics the right is losing badly in. strangelet @ One Cancer Under God: On Defending Woodrow…
Here’s a quote from the German documentary The Architecture of Doom
“Defining Nazism in traditional political terms is difficult, mainly because its dynamic was fueled by something quite different from what we usually call politics. This driving force was, to a great degree, esthetic; its ambition was to beautify the world…
Soon to be lapping up on a shore near you…
Just as we were beginning to discuss the political impact of the oil platform disaster, what should show up in my inbox but an e-mail from Gavin Newsom – Mayor of San Francisco, running for lieutenant governor (after having dropped…
CHART OF THE DAY – Heavens to Murgatroyd…
…and Great Caesar’s Ghost! Conservative Enthusiasm Surging Compared to Previous Midterms – Gallup.com
Adventures in Epistemic Opening – Manzi vs Levin and the Fate of Everything
The fancy phrase “epistemic closure” may be a bad one, and not just because it may be too fancy by half, but when Julian Sanchez applied it to the great body of American conservatism, he touched a nerve. The claim…
Limbaugh over the line
In a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed – Rush Limbaugh: Liberals and the Violence Card – Rush Limbaugh was justifiably fierce in his response to the recent left-liberal anti-Tea Party offensive. He was particularly scathing in regard to Bill Clinton, who…
Is our politicians lurning?
The title was an old favorite of Dean Barnett’s (I think I’ve got it right). The occasion is a post over at Non-Zombie Contentions in which Jonathan Tobin takes a gander at the British Conservatives’ slo-mo political trainwreck. His summary:…
Posted in Politics Tagged with: 2010 Elections, Conservatism, David Cameron, David Frum, Europe, Tory
On re-reading Liberal Fascism: Defining Evil Down
The comforting exaggerations and ideological short-cuts, historical curse words, the imputation of the the worst imaginable intentions to all political adversaries, reflect an unreformed, self-defeating desperation. Maybe, as Goldberg writes in the last paragraph of Liberal Fascism, when protesting the other side’s insulting tactics, it’s past time to cry, “Enough!”