For a fascinating series of examples of how really REALLY far-left debaters think and behave, especially when confronted with alternative points of view, check out the comments in this article: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/10079#comment It is extremely interesting to read how they think but also how intolerant many of them are to opposing points of view.
Why don't garbage men or teachers or factory workers make as much as CEOs? We need teachers right? Our society would get pretty dirty in a hurry without garbage men and the things we rely on every day wouldn't exist without factory workers. How can we justify living in a world in which some CEO makes 1000X as much as these people? A garbage man doesn't make as much as a CEO because the number of people who can be a garbage man are far more than the number of people who can be a CEO. ...
The smirking chimp is a site dedicated to not just insults of President Bush but also of promoting radical left-wing nonsense like the article "When the rich make too much money". It never ceases to amaze me to see someone write, without irony on a computer, built by companies started by people who are now "rich" full of components made by companies whose founders are "rich" running computer software made by companies whose founders are "rich" complaining how unfair it is that there a...
I like Gov Granholm. She's the kind of politican that few states are lucky to have -- honest, friendly, reasonable. I also think she's intelligent. But it is, IMO, her intelligence that had led her economic policies to disaster. Simply put, when she doesn't know something, she relies on her intelligence to function as a form of intuition. And for whatever reason, she just has some sort of block when it comes to business. In her 2007 state of the state speech, she advocates raising taxes to...
My friend Cordellia thinks she might be in favor of Obama in 2008 depending on how things go. I agree with her that it's hard to be certain without knowing who the choices are. But having looked at his positions and statements, I'm pretty sure I couldn't vote for him even though I agree with him on a lot of his votes. Let's see how we match up: Abortion: Support Affirmative Action: Strongly oppose Rights for gays: Support Teaching family values in public schools: No op...
While left of center regularly call me "intolerant" because I don't agree with their views (even as I provide a free blog for them to speak out), the left continues its consistent display of intolerenance by physically assaulting those who don't agree with them. This week's example is here in Michigan at MSU. To disagree with the left used to be just a matter of being ignorant and unenlightened . Nowadays, you're not only ignorant and unenlightened but too repulsive to allow to have your ...
I can't say I'm happy that Republicans have lost the house of representatives. I went out and voted today. My votes tended to be for Republicans overall. I don't consider myself to be a Republican but given the choices, I'm going to vote for the people who come closest to representing my views as long as they have worked within a certain threshold of what my expectations are. Since I'm in Michigan, in Wayne County, that basically means that the incumbants are Democrats anyway. Nation...
A thread over at the Democratic Underground asks what makes you proud to be an American. The answers provide an answer as to why so many people have doubts about the patriotism of the left.
The Senate's most famous brain donor, Democrat Barbara Boxer, publicly stated her belief that judges should require a super majority vote to be confirmed -- standing the constitution on its head. Her argument stemmed from her erroneous belief that once a judge is in, you can't get them out. That's actually not the case. In the early days of the republic, Presidents removed judges quite regularly for not following the constitution. If we got back to that, then we wouldn't have...
Since 1992, the Democrats have seen a pretty steady decline in their status in the American political system. They lost seats in the house of representatives, the senate, state governorships, and state assemblies. In 2000 they narrowly lost the white house as well. And since 2000, things have become dramatically worse for the Democrats with them being a minority party in every sense? What the hell happened? James Carville, a Democratic advisor to Kerry and Clinton put it succinctly o...
Pay close attention: It's all about Ohio. Whoever wins Ohio wins the election. Kerry knows this. So does Bush. If you live on Ohio, I imagine every ad is a political ad and if not, it soon will be. All this post-convention "bounce" they talk about ultimately means nothing if Bush loses Ohio because it's not the popular vote that matters, as Gore discovered. It's all about the electoral college and if Kerry can win Ohio, it's all over for Bush.
Kerry is demanding Bush implement the 9/11 commissions's recommendations immediately. This should scare you. Why? Because under the commission's design, the new intelligence czar would be part of the President's cabinet and have an office in the white house. You sure you want that? You sure you want some combined FBI/CIA master ultra intelligence czar to be working in the white house with relatively little oversight? Because that's what Kerry is demanding. Bush, by contr...
While visiting NASA, John Kerry posed for the cameras and Nasa put the results up. Kerry, who apparently found the pictures unflattering, cried foul. And he cried foul loud enough to gain the attention of the national media and bloggers who turned a picture that nobody would likely have seen into one everyone is going to see. Sometimes, it's better to let sleeping dogs lie.
John Kerry and his supporters have made a lot of noise of his 4 months in Vietnam on a Swift boat. But what do the men who actually served with him think? http://www.swiftvets.com/ Overwhelmingly, they reject him. Described variously as a glory hound, he apparently took a home movie camera with him in which he reinacted various events in front of the camera in an effort to glorify what he did. I don't know enough on this to know how much of it is usual political propaganda or not. ...
Robert Reich has a new book that talks about the principles of liberalism, conserativism, and adds a new category "radcons". It's an interesting, if self-serving, look at things. I say self-serving because he seems to imagine that the Democratic party is being run by the warm fuzzy liberals he describes. But is that the case? Perhaps he should add one more category -- Radlib. Because apparently, in Reich's mind, based on his book and interviews, the radicals are all on the right.&nbs...