Bookworm on Sep 12 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Feminism, Leftist morality
One of the things that’s been playing through my head lately is the distance between the liberal worldview and actual reality. The media arguments directed at Palin, especially those that deal with women’s issues, really highlighted that divide for me.
Let’s begin with the way in which liberals distinguish themselves from conservativeds, something David Smithee examines [...]
Bookworm on Aug 26 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Leftist morality
Was I the only one who found it hysterically funny that Nancy Pelosi, after building a political career on the cult of victimhood — especially women’s victimhood — is now snapping at all those well-trained victimized women to give it up and get with the program?
“I think that women, we have to get away from [...]
Bookworm on Jun 18 2008 | Filed under: Leftist morality
….And everything that’s wrong with modern liberal political discourse is summed up in these two beautiful paragraphs that Michael Gerson wrote about Al Franken (emphasis mine):
Our popular culture, of course, violates even these expansive boundaries of tastelessness with regularity. We laugh at comedies featuring the C-word, and at cartoons of foul-mouthed third-graders. In the cause [...]
Bookworm on Apr 30 2008 | Filed under: Communism, Democrats, Leftist morality
My father was a very angry man. At whichever job he had, he was pretty darn certain that management was out to get him. At stores, he knew he was being cheated. My mother always attributed this anger, not to the poverty and dislocation of his youth (placed in an orphanage at [...]
Bookworm on Apr 29 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Leftist morality, Media matters
At Paragraph Farmer, Patrick has taken apart a liberal newspaper’s endorsement for Barack Obama, exposing just a few of the logical fallacies and factual errors it contains. Patrick’s post actually makes for very scary reading, because this is not just one little editorial board but is, instead, thinking representative of a large part of the [...]
Bookworm on Apr 22 2008 | Filed under: Anti-war, Leftist morality
My favorite quotation of the day, from a Dennis Prager column: “The Vietnam War did to American liberals what World War I did to most Europeans — it rendered them anti-war rather than anti-evil.” In one sentence, he’s summed up just about every fallacy that makes it so that liberals are bound and determined to [...]
Bookworm on Apr 17 2008 | Filed under: Abortion, Barack Obama, Leftist morality
In the last couple of major posts I’ve done about Obama, I’ve tried to focus on the fact that Obama lives in a weirdly inverse world, where he tries desperately to hide what he really is, which is someone who believes that traditional values are evil. This same bizarre inversion, where Obama takes ordinary [...]
Bookworm on Mar 27 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Leftist morality
Writing at the American Thinker, J.R. Dunn has a scathing indictment of modern liberalism, starting with the 1968 Democratic convention. I think the whole article is worth reading, especially the bit about the Clinton-esque corruption of Governors Spitzer, McCreevy and Paterson, but I was especially taken with this run-down, which describes the liberalism in [...]
Bookworm on Mar 16 2008 | Filed under: Holocaust, Leftist morality, Multiculturalism
A few days ago, I posted about the rise in antisemitism around the world. One of my readers, who I know is a good and kind woman, decried this trend, but then said something interesting: “And now many Jews insist that we hate Muslims to support them. [snip.] [E]very anti-Islamic [...]
Bookworm on Feb 27 2008 | Filed under: Leftist morality
While I was gallivanting in Florida, news came out that Obama paid his respects to William Ayers, a leader of the infamous Weather Underground of the 1960s, which left a trail of bombings and deaths in its wake. Jonah Goldberg looks at this quickly buried news squiblet, as well as the connections prominent liberals [...]
Bookworm on Jan 18 2008 | Filed under: Israel, Leftist morality, Media matters
In one of my recent posts fawning over Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, I mentioned his discussion about the fascistic love for the “fake but accurate” approach to “truth.” Thus,
As the cross-burning incident at Cornell demonstrated, this preference for [...]
Bookworm on Jan 14 2008 | Filed under: Leftist morality
I just have to share with you a few more gems from Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, and then I really, really have to buckle down and get some paying work done.
First, regarding the constant calls for unity that we’re hearing [...]
Bookworm on Jan 01 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Europe, Leftist morality
While idly browsing the shelves at our local public library, I stumbled across a fascinating book — one that is fascinating on a couple of different levels. It’s called Uncouth Nation : Why Europe Dislikes America, and was written by Andrei S. Markovits, a Jewish man who was born in Romania, and raised during [...]
Bookworm on Dec 20 2007 | Filed under: Christians, Crime and punishment, Islam, Jews, Leftist morality
I did a post yesterday in which I quoted from an interview with Michael Cappi regarding the fact that Islam, unlike Judaism or Christianity, is not a religion that concerns itself with broader moral issues that rise above mere tribal law. I’d actually made precisely the same point in an earlier post, here. [...]
Bookworm on Nov 01 2007 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Leftist morality, Muslim violence
As you may recall, Hitler’s thugs made Munich their headquarters in the 20s, and were able to use it as their power base in the early 30s. Among other, equally unsavory tactics they used to consolidate power was thuggery to suppress speech. It’s really a simple tactic if you have the stomach for it, and [...]
Bookworm on Oct 19 2007 | Filed under: Al Gore, Leftist morality, Media matters
Nicholas Wishek has used Bore’s Nobel Prize as a leaping off point for a pointed expose of the looniness that is modern liberalism, and the complicit media that protects and serves the liberal agenda. Here are some nice little gems from the column, but I do think you should read the whole thing:
Now, I [...]
Bookworm on Oct 16 2007 | Filed under: Children, Leftist morality, Parenting
When the Progressive state is done, parents will have become obsolete, with children being created in test tubes and raised by the Government. How else to explain this, which again uses a fringe group of examples to legislate away the average person’s (and, in this case, the average parent’s) rights.
Hat tip: Drudge
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Bookworm on Oct 10 2007 | Filed under: Leftist morality
I have, in the past, commented on the silly things Naomi Wolf says. Patrick, my favorite Paragraph Farmer goes beyond the trivial things I’ve thrown into the debate, and instead focuses, laser-like, on the gaping logical fallacies in Wolf’s anti-administration, anti-American arguments. It’s good stuff and well worth reading. (Patrick’s stuff, I mean; not Naomi’s.)
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Bookworm on Sep 20 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Israel, Leftist morality
One more thing, related in a way to the SF mural post I did earlier. Yesterday, I did a post about that amazing collection of photographs that came to the US Holocaust Memorial, showing photos of the Auschwitz staff (guards/management) at play. My post was fairly banal, in that I made the unoriginal observation about [...]
Bookworm on Sep 20 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Immigration, Jews, Leftist morality, Mexico, San Francisco
San Francisco’s Mission District is, demographically, a primarily Hispanic district (about 50%), with the remainder of the population being White and Asian. Traditionally, it’s been a mixture of immigrants (legal and illegal), poor, working-class, and artsy-funky. It’s in the news today because the District used a $34,000 City-funded grant to paint a mural [...]
Bookworm on Aug 17 2007 | Filed under: Leftist morality, Media matters
You’d think that the most recent fauxtography story would have provided ample warning to the AFP that people are watching and that the media can no longer blithely get away with dishonesty. But no, just as General Honore, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina gently chided a reporter for being “stuck on stupid,” it turns [...]
Bookworm on Jul 31 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Communism, Cuba, Education, Leftist morality, Multiculturalism, Political correctness
The Left (both at home and abroad) likes to revile the infamous American President “Chimpy-BusHitler,” but they seem to be taking a pass on some people that even the Left would have to concede have a bit more blood on their hands. Mike Adams and the American Thinker take on the results of that, [...]
Don Quixote on Jul 25 2007 | Filed under: America, Jihad, Leftist morality, Religion
Thank you as always for your insightful and thoughtful comments. I always love throwing out topics and seeing the wonderful places you take them.
Today, I’d like to ask another question that relates to faith. One thing that cannot be denied about the Islamists is that they have a deep faith. It is hardly surprising that [...]
Bookworm on Apr 13 2007 | Filed under: Free speech, Leftist morality
This is a follow-up to my post a couple of days ago about my decision to read, in order, both Ann Coulter’s Godless : The Church of Liberalism and Susan Estrich’s Soulless : Ann Coulter and the Right Wing Church of Hate, with the latter meant to be a takedown of the former.
I galloped through [...]
Bookworm on Apr 11 2007 | Filed under: Leftist morality, Religion
I’m reading Ann Coulter’s Godless : The Church of Liberalism. I actually didn’t intend to check it out of the library when I first saw it. I can take Ann in small doses, because I think she’s very clever, and her observations are often spot-on. I also think she’s very mean, so [...]
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