The Bookworm Beat 8/25/17 — the illustrated edition and open thread
This illustrated edition celebrates the fact that, even when the country goes insane, it’s still possible to be clever, wise, informative, and funny.
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Tag: Free speech
Heil, Google! A round-up of interesting takes on a fascist corporate culture
Google’s promise was that it would allow an unfettered platform for free speech and thought. Its college-grad employees, though, made it a fascism farm. I stopped using Google’s search engine years ago, although I’m still chained to Gmail. I was one of the first Gmail users back when it was
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A Redneck Defense of Dean June Chu’s First Amendment Rights
Yale Dean June Chu’s right to free, if offensive, speech trumps hurt feelings — and rednecks are tough enough to handle an academic’s silly insults. On behalf of all fellow rednecks / white trash, if you believe in the First Amendment, then you should be defending Yale’s Dean June Chu
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The Bookworm Beat 4/24/17 — “watching as the Left continues circling the drain” edition
This Bookworm Beat has all shades of Progressive insanity (fake data, attacks on free speech, Chelseamania), complete with links and my trenchant comments. Keep circling that drain. Before I get into the meat of this post detailing the worst emanations from the Democrats and their fellow travelers on their Left,
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A microcosm of the maddening mix of Progressive hate, ignorance, and nonsense at an American college
Despite a small spark of rationality, Macalester College’s weekly paper displays the Progressive hate, ignorance, and nonsense at an American college. Knowing my passion for free speech, someone sent me a small sign of hope: a link to a student-written opinion piece from the weekly student newspaper at Macalester University
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Milo Yiannopoulos got punished despite having done nothing wrong!
Milo didn’t do what he’s accused of doing — but he’s being punished nevertheless. That’s just wrong . . . and so ickily Leftist. Sometimes the Lefties in this country get lucky. They have a truly dangerous adversary like Milo Yiannopoulos, someone who bravely and wades into the fight, and
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[VIDEO] Finally recognizing Leftism is regressive, not progressive
Prager U has another good video out, about those regressive Progressives. This video comes from Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report. He’s a one-time Progressive who finally figured out that Progressivism is yet another Orwellian misnomer from the Left. I agree completely and will only add (because if I don’t toot
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Progressive ideology drove the anti-Milo violence at Berkeley
With two days having elapsed since rioters disrupted Milo Yiannopoulos’s planned speech at UC Berkeley, using fire, pepper spray, sticks, fists, and feet in a successful effort to silence Milo, I’ve now got a bit of the distance I need to comment on the event. My conclusion is a simple
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YouTube has banned a Prager U video about leaving antisemitism behind *UPDATE*
Prager U today posted a really superb video about a Muslim man from England who was raised an antisemite, who became even more radicalized as he got older, and who eventually put all that aside when he finally learned the truth about Israel and about Jews. It is a temperate,
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National Review cruise — The First Amendment
Today’s seminars were about the First and Second Amendment discussions. Both panels were interesting but I was absurdly gratified to discover that, with few exceptions, nothing was said that we at the Bookworm Room (both authors and commenters) haven’t already addressed, analyzed, concluded, or otherwise worked over factually and intellectually.
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Bookworm Beat 11/6/16 — the “election countdown” edition and open thread
I’m going to try here to throw in as many good links as I can to help you to prepare for the upcoming election — and to understand the bizarre cultural Marxism that underlies so much of the battle in America today, as well as dislocations in the Middle East
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[VIDEO] How the Left suppresses free speech for conservatives
When I cast my votes yesterday, I didn’t have a choice when it came to either my Senator or my Representative: It was Democrat-Dee versus Democrat-Dum in both cases, because open primaries in this Blue state had ensured that, by the time the election rolled around, Republicans had vanished entirely.
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The Bookworm Beat 10/21/16 — the “politics as usual” edition and open thread
The American media suddenly discovers antisemitism in America. You know it’s not a coincidence when several mainstream media outlets that every non-conservative Jew reads suddenly announce that Donald Trump’s supporters are crazed antisemites. These are, of course, the same media outlets that have been silent for years about the antisemitism at
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Are the next 26 days the last act in an American tragedy? *UPDATED*
You know what those of us who are not opera fans really hate about opera? We hate the fact that, after the heroine has been dealt the fatal blow, it still takes her another half hour of frantic soprano singing before she dies. I suspect that the attenuated operatic death scene
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Progressive v. Conservative ideologies, not the candidates, are the real drivers in this election *UPDATED*
A Progressive friend is relentlessly pushing “Trump is awful” stories on me. I, a conservative, invariably counter by pointing out that Hillary’s list of sins and failures is infinitely worse. I realized yesterday that my arguments are irrelevant. My friend will never vote for someone who is not 100% pro-abortion,
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