December 22, 2024 By Jay Davidson Economics is the study of human nature. It seeks to explain how individuals interact in the exchange of a medium of value: money, barter, services, etc. Psychology, social science, even philosophy also study human nature. Whereas these studies can affect us at different times, the economy constantly affects us. An economy is a massive interchange of one product for another. It is more complex than weather prediction. Yet one economic system excels at recognizing human nature to its fullest. And that system relies on the one thing the left tells us is wrong: self-interest. Human nature requires self-interest in order to
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Exclusive: Jessico Bowman Blows Lid off Radical Leftist Organizations Trying to Take Down MAGA Drew Angerer/Getty Image HANNAH BLEAU KNUDSEN 27 Jan 2024635 A high-powered network of leftist organizations is trying to end not only former President Donald Trump but the MAGA movement, Secretary of the Republican Liberty Caucus Jessico Bowman said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday. These organizations are led by a group, Indivisible, which Bowman describes as an entity that aims to “create what they call an inclusive democracy.” “So they’re not looking to have a constitutional republic. It goes much deeper than just stopping Trump, as
Read more ... →The Democrat party has been a stain on the nation since its founding in 1828 by a virulently racist president, Andrew Jackson. It was the party of slavery and the Confederacy, it initiated racial segregation by legislating and brutally enforcing Jim Crow laws. It unabashedly aligned with and supported the Ku Klux Klan for over nine decades, thus promoting antisemitism, religious persecution and xenophobia. Over the past 60 years, the Party has embraced and promulgated cultural Marxism which espouses the transformation of traditional American culture and society. The Party has succeeded in undermining the family structure and religious freedom as well as mainstreaming abortions up to the point
Read more ... →EXCLUSIVE: The Left’s ELECTION INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Discovered and Defined Inbox By Guest Contributor May. 3, 2024 This post was originally reported at JoeHoft.com – we are republishing it here with permission. There is a battle taking place in America today. It’s the Left’s Election Industrial Complex versus fair and transparent US elections. While conservatives argue over whether we should vote early or on Election Day, the Election Industrial Complex is adding, deleting, and managing entities that are clandestinely operating behind US elections. A document produced by Higher Ground Labs entitled the – 2022 Political Tech Landscape Report – outlines what we have labeled the Election Industrial
Read more ... →Exclusive — ‘Defeat MAGA’: Meet the Radical Left Network that Hijacked Democrats in Effort to Stop Trump at All Costs 1,747 BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images MATTHEW BOYLE 26 Jan 2024Washington, DC9,953 33:59 A well-coordinated, well-funded, and high-powered network of leftist organizations, led by a group whose efforts 2016 Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton promoted, is behind the push to remove former President Donald Trump, the 2024 frontrunner for president from any party, from the ballot, Breitbart News has learned. But it’s much broader than that: For years, this network of leftists grew from a powerful vast left-wing conspiracy
Read more ... →MUST SEE: Paul Harvey’s Famous 1965 “Warning to America” Essay – Put to Life by Ultra MAGA Party By Jim Hoft Dec. 2, 2023 Joe Biden’s famous Moloch speech attacking the American people from Philly. Paul Harvey was one of the great radio personalities of 20th century America. Paul was a Christian man. He was a staunch American patriot and Godly man. His popular “Rest of the Story” segment was broadcast into millions of American homes and businesses. Paul Harvey was also a devout Christian who was deeply concerned that the United States was abandoning God and morality at her own peril. In 1965 Paul
Read more ... →Once again we are republishing this analysis by John L Kachelman, Jr. We first published this piece back in October 2020 before the presidential election. 2020 the “Perfect Storm” facing our Republic— All three branches of our Government are in peril Historical Discovery…An election in 1917 forecast the election in 2020! Here are the elements from 103 years ago! Years of preparatory work were spent in misleading and mis-directional propaganda Contested voting results marred the election’s finality and ultimately its dismissal Claims that the poor were going to be disenfranchised of their votes The scheduled voting was extended by
Read more ... →July 29, 2023 By T.S. Weidler Liberalism is a false and counterfeit religion that is incompatible with the Judeo-Christian worldview that built the United States and much of the western world. The year 2023 is the 100-year anniversary of J. Gresham Machen’s prophetic book Christianity and Liberalism. This book is just as accurate today as it was prophetic when he wrote it. His central thesis 100 years ago was that liberalism is its own religion, distinct and incompatible with Christianity. It acts as a parasite on Christianity, and can only be accurately understood as a separate and false religion. Machen was right, of course,
Read more ... →May 26, 2023 By Jeffrey Folks Twenty years ago, I interviewed a young woman for an entry-level position at the prestigious university where I taught. I had read the candidate’s Ph.D. thesis, with considerable reservations, and was eager to ask about her scholarly interests. She stated that she followed the approach called “critical theory” and that her interest was limited to whatever was abnormal, perverse, and antagonistic. She despised everything that was conventional, decent, or good. As a person who had devoted his entire life to promoting what was conventional, decent, and good, I was taken aback. Not that I was entirely surprised. Critical theory, with
Read more ... →May 23, 2023 By Jack Hellner It is hard to find any data to support what we have been told about temperatures and the climate, yet we repeatedly see the talking point that “the science is settled” and people saying the dire predictions have been true. Here is a report that shows that Arctic ice, which has been measured only since 1981, is melting slower than normal, because it is cooler than normal. And that it is at 95% of the average — 5.4 million square miles versus 5.67 million square miles. The prediction was that the ice was melting fast and would
Read more ... →VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The coup we never knew Victor Davis Hanson – Tribune Content Agency January 7, 2023 – 9:01 pm Did someone or something seize control of the United States? What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did President Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border and reside in the United States as they pleased? Since when did money not have to be paid back? Who insisted that
Read more ... →Identity Politics and Teleologies of the Present James H. Sweet | Aug 17, 2022 Twenty years ago, in these pages, Lynn Hunt argued “against presentism.” She lamented historians’ declining interest in topics prior to the 20th century, as well as our increasing tendency to interpret the past through the lens of the present. Hunt warned that this rising presentism threatened to “put us out of business as historians.” If history was little more than “short-term . . . identity politics defined by present concerns,” wouldn’t students be better served by taking degrees in sociology, political science, or ethnic studies instead?
Read more ... →BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON 12:01 AM ON JANUARY 05, 2023 AP Photo/Susan Walsh What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did President Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border and reside in the United States as they pleased? Since when did money not have to be paid back? Who insisted that the more dollars the federal government printed, the more prosperity would follow? When did America embrace zero interest? Why do
Read more ... →The following statement was drafted by Will Chamberlain, Christopher DeMuth, Rod Dreher, Yoram Hazony, Daniel McCarthy, Joshua Mitchell, N.S. Lyons, John O’Sullivan, and R.R. Reno on behalf of the Edmund Burke Foundation. The statement reflects a distinctly Western point of view. However, we look forward to future discourse and collaboration with movements akin to our own in India, Japan, and other non-Western nations. Signatories’ institutional affiliations are included for identification purposes only, and do not imply an endorsement on the part of any institution other than the Edmund Burke Foundation. We are citizens of Western nations who have watched with
Read more ... →By Joe Hoft Published November 19, 2022 at 7:00pm Republicans, always late to how their voters are marginalized, now exclaim “we get it!” “Let’s place mail-in ballot boxes at gun shows, churches and Kiwanis breakfasts.” This is electioneering theater. Our Leftist pals respond with two strategies: they monitor the election apparatus in every district – knowing how many ballots they need. They use their phantom ballot inventory for the votes to cover any Republican votes gathered at that gun show. Republicans don’t monitor the election apparatus. They are too honest to do it. Where Democrats are happy to do it. We
Read more ... →We hear the lament from the Left continually, even more so as election season dawns, and endlessly as election day approaches: “If you vote for the Republican, it will mark the end of democracy.” We know this mantra by now. Trump tried to destroy democracy not only on January 6 but on the day he was born, actually on the day he was conceived. Rudi Giuliani is a threat to democracy. Steve Bannon is a threat to democracy. Fox News is a threat to democracy. The conservative columnists at the New York Times and Washington Post are threats to democracy. Sean Hannity. Tucker Carlson.
Read more ... →VICTOR DAVIS HANSON Anton Novoderezhkin/SPUTNIK/AFP/Getty Images/TNS May 12, 202210:25 AM ET Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next five months that once would have seemed unimaginable. Until the Ukrainian conflict, we had never witnessed a major land war inside Europe directly involving a nuclear power. In desperation, Russia’s impaired and unhinged leader, Russian President Vladimir Putin, now talks trash about the likelihood of nuclear war. A 79-year-old President Joe Biden bellows back that his war-losing nuclear adversary is a murderer, a war criminal, and a butcher who should be removed from power. After
Read more ... →The working class suffer when elites agree BY JOEL KOTKIN America’s democracy resembles feudal Japan. Joel Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Urban Reform Institute. His new book, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, is now out from Encounter. May 4, 2022 We Americans like to think of ourselves as a thoroughly modern people — living proof of what, with enough toil and grit, the rest of the free world can one day hope to be. And yet for all our progressivism and idealism, America’s political culture finds itself unable to escape the past. We
Read more ... →Nolte: Elitist Biden Admin Rubs Gas Crisis in Working Class Faces — Let Them Eat Priuses! 759Goverment JOHN NOLTE14 May 20217024:06 Went looking for gas yesterday in my North Carolina town. No luck. My pickup’s three-quarters full, so I should be fine until things (hopefully) return to normal, but the gas containers for my equipment are bone dry and so were the filling stations I drove by. What’s the Biden administration’s response to this…? “If you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you, clearly.“ Ah. Okay. That was our energy secretary, Madam Lunatic Jennifer Granholm. Well, here’s my response to
Read more ... →Americans who supported President Trump’s policies on trade, energy and the environment, immigration, foreign policy, deregulation, education, and free speech are in a fight for their lives.By Edward Ring January 10, 2021 On January 8, in the wake of the protests two days earlier at the U.S. Capitol that left five dead and derailed congressional debate over election fraud, Twitter and Facebook permanently banned President Trump from their platforms. Jack Dorsey, the scruffy billionaire CEO of Twitter, apparently banned Trump while vacationing in French Polynesia. This action by Twitter and Facebook, while shocking, should not surprise anyone. This is the latest salvo
Read more ... →January 4, 2021 By Deborah C. Tyler On the morning of November 3, I texted a friend about how proud I was of America. After all the vilification, Trump would win because the system works. The last thing I said to my son-in-law as I went to bed that night was, “Don’t worry. They can’t overcome a nine-point lead in Pennsylvania. Trump is going to win.” How could I have been so blind? Because I had faith in the law. As the most destructive interstate crime campaign in American history was playing out, videos emerged (Philadelphia, Detroit, Gary) of authorized poll-watchers being barred from entering election headquarters by latter-day
Read more ... →December 24, 2020 By William DiPuccio Undergirding the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution is a set of philosophical principles that are under assault by Progressives. These founding principles, derived mostly from the Federalist Papers, provide the lens through which we read and understand the Constitution. Without this lens, the meaning of the Constitution and American law becomes putty in the hands of every special interest group. Progressivism seeks to replace the founding principles with a new set of doctrines based on the tenets of social justice — a system which elevate the rights of “protected classes” (non-whites, LGBTQ, women, etc.) by
Read more ... →The following text has been copied and pasted from a friend’s post. Couldn’t have said it better! How to pick a side in the next civil war… I used to think I was pretty much just a regular person, but I was born “white” into a two-parent household which now labels me as “Privileged”, racist and responsible for slavery. I am a fiscal and moral conservative, which by today’s standards, makes me a fascist because I plan & budget. But I now find out that I am not here because I earned it, but because I was “advantaged”. I am
Read more ... →byMELISSA MACKENZIEDecember 4, 2020, 12:00 AMPromotional still from “The Wizard of Oz”🔊 Listen to this article The current crisis did not begin with Trump, contrary to the vain repetitions of the Never Trump crowd. The Left’s woes didn’t begin with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The political turmoil on both the left and right started a couple election cycles back with Bill Clinton and Chuck Schumer. What began with government good intentions and notions of correcting injustice caused one short-term fiscal calamity and continues as a rolling cultural catastrophe. Twenty-five years ago, the premise was this: minorities were being discriminated against when trying
Read more ... →December 6, 2020 By Steve Bigler Lately I’ve been thinking about defining characteristics of good and evil. I am a person of faith, so initially I might have been tempted to say simply that good adheres to the commandments of God, or at least to the tenets of a religion. But that’s too easy. First of all, not everyone believes in God. In addition, concepts of God vary widely. And finally, I’m not sure all religions are uniformly good! So I pondered, “What if I were not a person of faith? What if I didn’t belong to any religion at all? Surely, I’d still recognize that some principles
Read more ... →Only freedom of speech can preserve republican self-government, and only it can cool the fanatical hatreds and false theories underlying identity politics. By Arthur MilikhDECEMBER 3, 2020 Much evidence suggests that freedom of speech may be banned in the coming years under the guise of regulating “hate speech.” Many on the left who demand and welcome this development do not foresee the broad consequences of their actions. Nor do many defenders of free speech sufficiently examine the left’s reasons for banning it. Just in the past few years, U.S. senators proposed to outlaw words they deem offensive; New York City attempted to fine residents $250,000 if
Read more ... →December 4, 2020 By Eric Utter If you believe it’s okay to kill your own baby in your womb but that hunting should be banned, you just might be a Democrat. If you think invasive species are an existential threat to the United States but illegal aliens always enrich us with their presence, you just might be a Democrat. If you think smoking cigarettes should be banned but smoking marijuana should be legalized, you just might be a Democrat. If you think the song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” should be kept off the airwaves yet happily sing along to Cardi B’s “WAP” (Wet
Read more ... →The Difficult Way Forward By Tom Mayer It used to be said that America was fortunate in that its politics were played between the 40-yard lines: that we agreed on the most important things and argued over the details within a small range of policies. That hasn’t been true for many years, the playing field being stretched as far as it can go. But the problem now is not that the playing field has expanded, the game itself has changed. The object of the game as well as the rules, are practiced very differently by the two sides. Republicans are still
Read more ... →Now You See It: Democrats Want to End Elections Oct 1, 2020 RUSH: This is Brad in Owensboro, Kentucky. It’s great to have you, sir. I’m glad you waited. Hello. CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush, from the Bluegrass State. RUSH: Great to have you with us. CALLER: I always wanted to talk to you. I was telling Mr. Snerdley, I think we finally reached the point that you have always said we would get to where the Democrats are done with elections. They don’t care anymore. They don’t think we’re smart enough to self-govern, and so they’re gonna try and steal
Read more ... →Move over, “White Fragility”: Shelby Steele’s “White Guilt” diagnoses our racial woes much more accurately.by BRADFORD H. B.August 18, 2020, 12:00 AM Protesters in Washington, D.C., June 3, 2020 (bgrocker/Shutterstock.com) For many American Spectator readers, an especially troubling aspect of the recent racial eruptions likely has been the elevation of books like Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, Ibram X. Kendi’s How To Be An Antiracist, and Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want To Talk About Race into the national consciousness. Following the protests and riots in May and Jund, each of these previously published titles zoomed up Amazon’s bestsellers list, entrenching them further, no doubt, in college humanities syllabi across the
Read more ... →July 6, 2020 By John Eidson “I’m sorry I was born white and privileged. It disgusts me. And I feel so much shame.” So tweeted virtue-signaling Hollywood actress Rosanna Arquette, whose three-sentence message had one purpose: to help the political party she supports mainstream the absurd idea that white people should be ashamed of their skin color and, by extension, ashamed of their predominately white country. Hollywood stars are not the only ones pushing white privilege ideology. Marxist teachers and professors in our universities and public schools have systematically burdened millions of young white minds with guilt over the accident of
Read more ... →by Gary Bauer | July 04, 2020 06:00 AM What would you do if you wanted to destroy America? The first thing you would do is take control of the education system and teach children that they are living in an evil country. Then you would undermine the police, the military, and law enforcement. You’d use every opportunity you can to divide people by race, religion, and class. You would stoke feelings of grievance regardless of how much progress was being made to promote racial reconciliation and equal opportunity. You would attack churches, too. You’d teach children that there is no God,
Read more ... →RUSH: There also, ladies and gentlemen, you know, one of the themes that I have been on for a long time, but I’ve been intensely trying to drive home a point for the last two weeks, three weeks, and that is the utter failure of the Democrat Party to come through for its constituents. You’ve heard me say this I don’t know how many times. Maybe you’re a little tired of hearing me say it. The Democrat Party has been promising utopia. And yet where is all this police brutality happening? In Democrat blue states. It’s so bad that they’re
Read more ... →We shut down travel from Europe over fear of COVID-19, but have an open southern border. • If a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him. • Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America. • Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegal Mexicans voting in our elections are good. • It was cool for Joe Biden to “blackmail” the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it. • Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old
Read more ... →LETTER TO THE EDITOR: What’s wrong with this party? Letter to the editor, Northwest Florida Daily News, 2/22/2020 Posted at 7:57 AM Janette Gregg of Fort Walton Beach says one of the two primary political parties in the United States favors infanticide, servitude to the government and encouraging homeless people to bring rats and drugs to our streets. We have two main political parties in this country. The following is one of them. Can you identify it? It advocates: 1. High, onerous taxes on its citizens, while promising free “stuff” to gullible, naive people. 2. Open borders, which encourages human trafficking, drug
Read more ... →January 13, 2020 By Richard Moss One could perhaps have excused them their earlier indiscretions of November 2016. He was, after all, an unknown quantity, an outsider of questionable conservative pedigree. Indeed, Donald Trump had been a fairly typical New York liberal Democrat for much of his life. And he had led a less than stellar moral life. And so the pile-on at the time by National Review and others could perhaps have been forgiven, although not really, when one considered the alternative. As I had written at the time: Do we not grow weary of the sanctimonious ones? The Never Trumpers
Read more ... →Rush Limbaugh delivered commentary on U.S. foreign policy and the nation’s superpower status on the Wednesday broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program. RUSH: Folks, we have just in the last — ah, you could say two days, the last week, we have had demonstrated for us one of life’s most basic lessons. And I want to try to explain this. I gotta tell you, I was so frustrated watching television last night as the Iranians launched their little puddle jumper missiles. I’m watching, I don’t care what channel I turned to, not even gonna mention them. All the networks,
Read more ... →VIRGIL 4 Jan 2020 If Virgil told you about an article arguing that the current system can’t handle the challenges of globalization—pointing to “the completely unprecedented personal economic insecurity of working people, from industrial workers and white-collar clerks to medium-high managers”—you might be inclined to react as follows: “That’s old news. I’ve read a hundred articles making that point, again and again, over the last few years—quite a few of them, in fact, at Breitbart News.” Okay, but what if Virgil told you that this particular article was written in…1994? As in, a full quarter-century ago? In other words, way ahead of
Read more ... →.By Dennis PragerDecember 31, 2019 It is not easy to understand what the left — as opposed to liberals — stands for. If you ask a Christian what to read to learn the basics of Christianity, you will be told the Bible. If you ask a (religious) Jew, you will be told the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud. If you ask a Mormon, you will be told the Bible and the Book of Mormon. Ask a Muslim and you will be told the Quran. But if you ask a leftist what one or two books you should read to understand leftism,
Read more ... →BY DENNIS PRAGER OCTOBER 29, 2019 Protesters from the group Refuse Fascism chant as President Trump’s motorcade comes off the highway in Wilkes Barre Township, Pa., on Aug. 2, 2018. (Dave Scherbenco/The Citizens’ Voice via AP) Here are some of the messages the left has been giving America’s young people: Your past is terrible, and your future is terrible. The American past is a story of genocide, slavery, racism, patriarchy and colonialism. You should be ashamed of it. As regards your future, your very existence is in jeopardy. You may well die at a young age unless society completely shifts from fossil
Read more ... →Dr. Richard Ebeling, professor of economics at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and my longtime friend and colleague, has written an important article, “Business Ethics and Morality of the Marketplace,” appearing in the American Institute for Economic Research. It’s importance and timeliness is enhanced by so many of America’s youth, led by academic hacks, having fallen prey to the siren song of socialism. In a key section of his article, Ebeling lays out what he calls the ethical principles of free markets. He says: “The hallmark of a truly free market is that all associations and relationships
Read more ... →December 10, 2019 By John Eidson Evidence that socialism is doomed to fail wherever it is tried occurred long before America became a nation. In 1607, inhabitants of Jamestown, Virginia were on the verge of starvation, largely because the settlement’s communal living arrangement failed to produce enough food. Among the steps that saved Jamestown from oblivion was doing away with communal sharing in favor of incentive-based farming that rewarded personal initiative. YouTube screen grab: The Hippies Movement 1960s. Three and a half centuries later, the same lesson repeated itself in San Francisco and elsewhere, when the utopian “free food” communes of the hip generation
Read more ... →by E. DONALD ELLIOTT December 6, 2019, 12:12 AM “Gulliver bound down by the Democratic Lilliputians,” Judge Magazine, c. 1890–95 Our country could survive an impeachment trial of Donald Trump. We’d be wounded and I hope that calamity can be avoided, but we’d survive. The more momentous issue in the current impeachment kerfuffle is how and to what extent the administrative state can bind the president. A quiet revolution, so far bloodless, is underway to redefine “the rule of law” to give unelected officials in the administrative state control over the president. Confucius, the only philosopher I know who was also prime minister
Read more ... →American Greatness, by Dennis Prager Whenever leftists are charged with not loving or even with hating America, they respond angrily, labeling the question absurd, mean-spirited and an example of right-wing McCarthyism. Dennis Prager – November 19th, 2019 Whenever leftists are charged with not loving or even with hating America, they respond angrily, labeling the question absurd, mean-spirited and an example of right-wing McCarthyism. But there can be little doubt that the left has no love for America, just as there can be little doubt that liberals and conservatives love America. Love of America is one of the many dividing lines between liberalism and
Read more ... →nomenklatura – (in the former Soviet Union) a list of influential posts in government and industry to be filled by Communist Party appointees. To reserve important appointments for Party members. Take all the signature brand names that the Baby Boomers inherited from prior generations—Harvard, Yale, the New York Times, NPR, CNN, the Oscars, the NFL, the NBA, the FBI, the CIA, the Rockefeller and Ford foundations, and a host of others. And then ask whether they enhanced or diminished such inheritances? Victor Davis Hanson – October 27th, 2019 Donald Trump is now in the midst of another coup frenzy that has the Left
Read more ... →EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Is capitalism destroying democracy? It is an old question that political thinkers have long wrestled with. Yet, it gained recent prominence with the publication of Duke University historian Nancy MacLean’s widely discussed book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, which unleashed heated debate over its claim that libertarian economists, funded by capitalist billionaires, have worked to subvert American democracy over the past four decades. Critics of the free market contend that democracy, as they conceive it, should not be constrained. Yet, it turns out that American democracy is already enchained—by
Read more ... →EYE ON THE NEWS We must counter the clerisy’s efforts to discredit our past and demolish our future Not allowing people to live in and enjoy the PRESENT. (Clerisy-intellectuals who form an artistic, social,or political vanguard or elite intelligentsia.) Teaching youth that there is nothing good about our democratic cultural inheritance, the intellectual class is working to discredit our past and demolish our future.Joel KotkinOctober 3, 2019 Politics and lawThe Social Order The intellectual class across the West—encompassing its universities, media, and arts—is striving to dismantle the values that paced its ascendancy. Europe, the source of Western civilization, now faces a
Read more ... →by D. L. Adams (January 2010) Saul Alinsky and his “community organizing” methods and philosophy have had a profound influence on the politics of the United States. Recent history would suggest that this influence is just short of catastrophic.Alinsky’s book, “Rules for Radicals,” published in 1971 still has enormous effects on our country today. Hillary Clinton wrote her Wellesley College thesis on Alinsky, interviewing him personally for her research. After her graduation Alinsky offered her a job with his organization, which she refused to pursue other opportunities. President Obama worked for Alinsky organizations and taught seminars in Alinsky tactics and methodology during his “community organizing” period in Chicago.
Read more ... →The one way to put a stop to “white supremacy.” byJEFF GOLDSTEINAugust 7, 2019, 12:02 AM Antifa marchers in Portland in 2018 (Shutterstock.com) Three years ago, writing in the Federalist, I noted how the Left’s embrace — and political deployment — of identity politics had given rise to, and become a perverse justification for (in its own hive mind), white supremacy, a blunt rejection of the collective call by the Left and academia to demonize whiteness. I pored over and unpacked the “alt-right manifesto” of an influential “thought leader” of the movement and found what was easily recognizable: a progressive strain placing it
Read more ... →Intellectual bankruptcy, underwritten by name-calling and intimidation. bySCOTT MCKAYJuly 29, 2019, 11:59 PMMatt Smith Photographer/Shutterstock.com We just concluded one of the strangest, and most illuminating, weeks in the history of American politics — a week in which the Democrat Party, through its majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives, exposed itself as not just driven by out-of-the-mainstream anti-American and anti-civilization ideologues but by radicals lacking the political skill to carry a message even with the aid of a slavish mainstream media. That was the takeaway from the Robert Mueller hearing on Wednesday, in which the Democrats’ anti-Trump cleanup hitter
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