Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Prager U is out with another video, this one detailing the ways in which the Left perverts language to advance both political and cultural goals. There is nothing new about the way in which the Left perverts language to achieve its political ends. After all, a significant part of Orwell’s
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This challenge to the assault on language that the transgender movement demands is a pretty good re-working of Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s on First” shtick! Hat tip: Daily Wire
Continue readingIt may be one of the most famous quotations in the English language: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Orwell wrote Animal Farm as an allegory about the Soviet Union. His point with that quotation was that all totalitarian states, no matter their original
Continue readingGeorge Orwell understood that good language clarifies and bad language corrupts. He’d moved amongst Communists, so he understood how controlling people requires controlling language. One cannot fully erase ideas if the language to express them still exists — so one changes the language. In 1984, Orwell envisioned an Auschwitz-like world
Continue readingFor a supposedly great orator, Obama certainly has a strained relationship with the English language: A Marion, Iowa, man who has been a popular performer at Republican events attended President Obama’s rally on the Kirkwood Community College campus yesterday. Lance Mack wore a dark suit and a tall, stove-pipe hat
Continue readingI’m surrounded by tweens and teens, so I can attest to this poem’s accuracy: Hat tip: The New Editor
Continue readingThe Indiana legislature is working on a bill to ban gay marriage. On my “real me” facebook, several of my friends characterized this as an act motivated by hate: “Stop the hate!” “Boy, they really hate us.” “Could they be more hateful?” I found this formulation interesting, perhaps because semantics
Continue readingI found the following paragraph, culled from the San Francisco Chronicle, fascinating (emphasis mine): From top congressional leaders to online activists, liberals have sought the wisdom of UC Berkeley linguistics Professor George Lakoff for years. They ask him to teach them to do something that conservatives traditionally have done better
Continue readingMuch is being made lately of the fact that Rahm Emanuel is being exposed as somewhat who berates people in meetings by calling them “retards.” I don’t expect any better of Rahm Emanuel who is, by all accounts, an extraordinary boor and bully. He’s also yet another example of the
Continue readingI can think of a billion reasons to dislike Harry Reid. The fact that he called Obama a “negro” is not one of them. It simply shows his age. (Although I do agree with Lloyd Marcus that it’s fine to be offended by Reid’s assumptions about white Americans.) The problem,
Continue readingI saw a headline at Drudge, to the effect that there is a photo of Afghan “insurgents” with U.S. ammo. The story, although I’m sure it’s interesting, interested me less than that word “insurgent.” We’ve all talked about the fact that “insurgent” a word that allows a politically correct, liberal
Continue readingAfter talking about a guest on NPR who explained that “personal responsibility” is racist code for hostility to blacks (because they can’t be responsible?), Mark Steyn states the obvious about the whole “criticizing Obama is racist” theme: “Code language” is code language for “total bollocks.” “Code word” is a code
Continue readingI came across two great words in my reading today and wanted to share them with you: The first word is irenic, which is an adjective meaning “tending to promote peace or reconciliation; peaceful or conciliatory.” I read this word in Emmett Tyrrell’s article about the irreconcilability between Palestinians and
Continue readingI’ve got a project, and pretty much exhausted myself writing this morning’s post (too much thinking, dammit!), so I’ll just give you links to some stories that caught my eye today. 1. John Hawkin’s writes about five top conservative female bloggers and discusses how they face different challenges from their
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