Foreign policy analyst Michael Ledeen has a good piece on our ruling class and its inability to face the fact of Islamic terrorism. It just can't say that Islamic terror is a problem. Take Iran, he writes. We don't really need to deal with Iran militarily. We just need to say the right words.
Young Suzy Lee Weiss writes a funny article in The Wall Street Journal about the hypocrisy of the college application process, and the Today Show has her on to sneer at her and marshal experts to say that she's spoilt. (And read the comments: most of them have drunk the liberal KoolAid.)
Instawife Dr. Helen Smith writes about the war on men at the university. She points out that men have only themselves to blame:
As I write in my American Thinker piece this week, we are coming to the end of the current liberal Big Push. Liberals are intellectually exhausted after the big offensive that got President Obama elected, Obamacare passed, and the president reelected. And all the pretty stories that they wrote are starting to fray at the edges: Osama dead, guns bad, immigration vital, health care just a matter of the right system.
Not to mention the bigger stories: getting a look at the seedy side of abortion in the Gosnell case, what you might call the Age of the Liberal Coathanger. Who knew?
There are lots of other liberal narratives that are coming apart at the seams. Only the truth struggles to get out, because liberals don't want to talk about it.
Someone has written that the Marxists tell the best stories. Well, maybe. I've just been reading a book on Marxism, leavened by a look at sociologists Emile Durkheim and Max Weber.
And what is coming through to me is the Marxist insistence on turning everything into a mud-hole. The division of labor is held out to be a monstrous culture of alienation, the separation of mankind from its true nature. But Durkheim points out that a division of labor is the most natural thing in the world, for it issues from natural human sociability. If humans are gathered together, it is natural that Bill will go off into one corner and concentrate on one part of the problem, while Suzy will work on another problem. At the end of the day, people will gather together and discuss what has been accomplished. That is supposed to be alienation?
The end of the recent liberal Big Push will provide conservatives with a new chance to bring the tawdry liberal lies into disrepute and, more important get our own glorious story out there in the public square.
Of course that is what I do every hour of every day.
We can do a lot just by pronouncing the right words, like “we want a free Iran,” and “we support the Iranian people,” or “the Iranian regime is our enemy.” Those words would give hope to the regime’s opponents, and it would–as it would have in Boston–improve the quality of our own government’s investigators, analysts, and strategists.The right words are important not just because truth-telling is important, but because it sends the right message to the bureaucratic functionaries. Why? Well look what happens when you discourage thinking about the "I" word.
The people who do counterterrorism shy away from seeing such terrorists, or potential terrorists, because if they point to such people, several bad things (from the investigators' and analysts' standpoint) happen. First, the policy makers aren't going to do anything; second, the investigators and analysts aren't going to get promoted, or rewarded with bonuses; third, they may get sued or sent to the bureaucratic equivalent of Siberia.Yeah. Why stop there? The problem is that the whole nation is being strangled by a kind of liberal cultural totalitarianism.
Young Suzy Lee Weiss writes a funny article in The Wall Street Journal about the hypocrisy of the college application process, and the Today Show has her on to sneer at her and marshal experts to say that she's spoilt. (And read the comments: most of them have drunk the liberal KoolAid.)
Instawife Dr. Helen Smith writes about the war on men at the university. She points out that men have only themselves to blame:
The discrimination will continue because there is no push back. If 5-10 percent of men fought back, stood up and started realizing that men’s rights are human rights and that they are not victims for daring to believe that their voices in gender and reproductive equality are just as important as a woman’s is, then maybe things will start to change. Until then, the kangaroo courts and angry feminists will have their day.Yeah. Aren't men supposed to have the courage to face up to the bullies and tell truth to power?
As I write in my American Thinker piece this week, we are coming to the end of the current liberal Big Push. Liberals are intellectually exhausted after the big offensive that got President Obama elected, Obamacare passed, and the president reelected. And all the pretty stories that they wrote are starting to fray at the edges: Osama dead, guns bad, immigration vital, health care just a matter of the right system.
Not to mention the bigger stories: getting a look at the seedy side of abortion in the Gosnell case, what you might call the Age of the Liberal Coathanger. Who knew?
There are lots of other liberal narratives that are coming apart at the seams. Only the truth struggles to get out, because liberals don't want to talk about it.
Someone has written that the Marxists tell the best stories. Well, maybe. I've just been reading a book on Marxism, leavened by a look at sociologists Emile Durkheim and Max Weber.
And what is coming through to me is the Marxist insistence on turning everything into a mud-hole. The division of labor is held out to be a monstrous culture of alienation, the separation of mankind from its true nature. But Durkheim points out that a division of labor is the most natural thing in the world, for it issues from natural human sociability. If humans are gathered together, it is natural that Bill will go off into one corner and concentrate on one part of the problem, while Suzy will work on another problem. At the end of the day, people will gather together and discuss what has been accomplished. That is supposed to be alienation?
The end of the recent liberal Big Push will provide conservatives with a new chance to bring the tawdry liberal lies into disrepute and, more important get our own glorious story out there in the public square.
Of course that is what I do every hour of every day.
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