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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Steven Crowder politely asks passers-by to change his mind that there are more than two genders. Armed only with feelings, the youngsters struggle and fail. One of my favorite sayings of all times is Dennis Prager’s maxim that he prefers clarity to agreement. When his show used to air on
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Today’s must-read: Vincent Phillip Muñoz’s article about Progressives’ and Conservatives’ different ideological approaches to equality. To the extent we conservatives look to the Constitution as the alpha and omega of our political ideology, we’ve thought a lot about equality in theory and in practice. Problems arise, though, when Progressives push
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Whether it’s CNN telling Christians or the NYT telling progs, the message is the same: Christians have to get with the program; socialism trumps principles. CNN is at the vanguard of a progressive jihad to drive Christian voters away from Trump. CNN’s two openly gay (one married) hosts, Don Lemon and
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Illustrations about free speech: NFL owners and players are free to disrespect flag and country — and Americans are free to vote with their wallets. If the NFL wants to let its employees use their unique bully pulpit to take a knee when the flag flies and the national anthem
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Free speech is meaningless if the government can nevertheless force you to say things that conflict with your values. But Leftist governments persists…
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The California travel ban against US states for claimed anti-LGBTQ laws follows its attack on the travel stay for Islamic countries that routinely kill gays. In January and then again in March 2017, President Trump issued a temporary travel ban aimed at six countries that the Obama administration identified as
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The Left cuddles up to antisemitic Muslims like Linda Sarsour, but absolves itself of sin by accusing Republicans of practicing sharia law. When you and I think of sharia law, we probably think of women lacking any legal rights, including the right to leave their homes without a male escort
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I’m working on an irritating little project that requires me to explain to a judge in a polite, non-insulting, ego-building way that I forgive him for not reading the facts or knowing the law, and that I just want to lead his brilliant, informed mind to the truth. Thankfully, Wolf
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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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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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Trump is an unpleasant mixture of bullying, bombast, and boasting. I don’t like his style. But to those who are worried about his authoritarian streak, I’d like to point out that there’s only one candidate on the presidential ballot who has called for weakening both the First and Second Amendments —
Continue readingPlus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. It was all the way back in June that Servo1969 sent me the link to Pat Condell’s First Amendment video. (Yes, I fell behind on my emails . . . again.) Anyway, Condell recorded this before the explosive insanity on American campuses
Continue readingIt’s ironic that on the eve of the 74th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, our President announced that the only thing that is infamous is (a) the Constitution (with primary focus on the 1st and 2nd Amendments) and (b) the apparently boundless (but surprisingly never acted upon) racism,
Continue readingAs you all know, the Supreme Court this morning issued a 5-4 decision, authored by Anthony Kennedy, finding a hitherto hidden right to same-sex marriage in the American Constitution. I have not yet read the decision, but nevertheless I have a few points to make regardless of the reasoning that
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