Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Meeting representatives of Berkeley’s College Republicans in the Trump era, you learn that courage is not limited to men in uniform on foreign battlefields. In 1964, the Free Speech Movement came to the University of California, Berkeley. It began as a protest against Berkeley’s extremely strict rules regarding political speech.
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Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” A brave journalist reporting on Antifa proves Orwell was right. If you ever question whether the American media has morphed into Pravda — a tightly controlled outlet for socialist propaganda — you need to
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Almost no words, just images to tell the tale of two American cities: Houston heroically surviving epic rain, and Berkeley barely surviving Antifa. First, images from Houston, which is inundated with water. Fortunately, there are wonderful people in Houston who are doing everything possible to save lives. The amount of rainfall
Continue readingThe People’s Republic of Berkeley or, as it’s more commonly known, the University of California, Berkeley, has stayed true to its core Orwellian Leftism by banning language. Today’s targeted “bad thinking” is the phrase “illegal immigrant.” According to the censors occupying Berkeley’s student government, that phrase is “racially charged,” “dehumanizes”
Continue readingI’ve never understood hunger strikes. That is, I’ve never found them a compelling means of moral persuasion. To me, they’re a form of emotional blackmail in lieu of reasoned argument. Still, that doesn’t stop their popularity, and some Berkeley students are now abstaining from food to protest an Arizona law
Continue reading[UPDATE: The school board stopped mulling and decided to act.] Last week, I wrote a long, ruminative post questioning how far a democracy must go to protect its minorities. Stepping in, right on cue, the San Francisco School District, which is facing a disastrous budget shortfall, is considering a huge
Continue readingGreen is fine if you can be cute about it: cute little hybrid cars, cute little permanent shopping bags boasting about your green-ness, and cute locally grown arugala. But is Green still fine if your City requires that, as a matter of law, you spend up to $30,000 to bring
Continue readingBerkeley is once again trying to prove that it’s the craziest city in America: Berkeley’s City Council will delve into national policy again next week when it votes whether to demand the United States charge Berkeley resident and former Bush adviser John Yoo with war crimes. Yoo, a tenured professor
Continue readingI found Berkeley a desperately unpleasant place when I attended University there in the late 70s/early 80s. It shocks me to realize that, unaware of it though I was, those were the good years. In a report filled with photos and text, Zombie walks us through the depths to which
Continue readingYesterday morning, in Berkeley, they were saying this: “Murder, rape, torture, war. That’s what the Marines are for.” and this: “These are very dangerous people. They’re lying to their children, talking them into becoming killers.” I noted that the mask had slipped, revealing that the “we support the troops, but
Continue readingIf you’re interested in up close pictures and eye-witness reporting from the goings-on in Berkeley, check out ProtestShooter. The pictures are from early in the day, so I can’t wait to see the next installment. My favorite photo was one that really didn’t have to do too much with the
Continue readingSince the Iraq War began, the Left has attempted to disassociate itself from the ugliness of 1960s anti-War protests by repeating, over and over, “We love the troops. It’s just the War we hate.” That line always had a stilted quality, especial since we have a volunteer army, and our
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