Liberalism
Katherine Gregg had an aritcle on Sunday’s
From Pennsylvania: The family of a Marine who was killed in Iraq is furious with Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll for showing up uninvited at his funeral this week, handing out her business card and then saying “our government” is against the war. Rhonda Goodrich of Indiana, Pa., said yesterday that a funeral was held…
Hugh Hewitt has written an important article entitled Real Religious Intolerance. In the article, he provides a speech by American Roman Catholic Archbishop Chaput that is worthy of reading in full: The Los Angeles Weekly’s “The New Blacklist” is author Douglas Ireland’s attempt to equate consumer boycotts of gay-themed entertainment sponsors with McCarthyism. That’s a…
This report is simply over-the-top and contributes to the ongoing destruction of civil society in America: Hollywood once again jumps into bitter DC politics when an episode of NBC’s Law & Order: Criminal Intent suggests a judge killer would wear a ‘Tom DeLay’ T-Shirt! The House Majority Leader plans a letter of protest later this…
These days the postmodern left demands that government and private institutions guarantee equality of outcomes. Any racial or gender “disparities” are to be considered evidence of culpable bias, regardless of factors such as personal motivation, training, and skill. This goal is neither liberal nor progressive; but it is what the left has chosen. In a…
I have always failed to understand why our society pays so much attention to the opinions of Hollywood celebrities, as if they have any ability to offer rich insights into the issues of life. This opinion was reinforced this morning by two separate news articles about Brad Pitt, both coming from the same interview: In…
Jesse Capece offers readers of the Providence Journal the service of clarifying something about which the average citizen might have misconceptions: My name is Jesse Capece and I, like Mr. Felkner, am pursuing a master’s degree at RIC’s School of Social Work. I have heard Mr. Felkner run off at the mouth about how the…
Over at Dust In the Light, Justin has motivated a thread about the increasingly important question of what has happened to liberalism (see Justin’s original post & comments). Here’s my capsule sketch of how liberalism got to the place where it is now… 1. Once upon a time, some enlightened philosophers came up with an…
Warren Beatty has suggested that Governor Schwarzenegger raise taxes on the rich: Schwarzenegger should raise taxes on the California rich and “terminate” his fund-raising and dinners with “the brokers of Wall Street” and the “lobbyists of K Street,” Beatty said… Beatty said Schwarzenegger should lead the rich toward helping California. “It’s called the haves giving…
Rocco DiPippo at The Antiprotestor Journal has a very interesting post about the DiscoverTheNetwork website, a guide to the political left developed by David Horowitz and others at FrontPage. They note the following on their website: The purpose of the DiscoverTheNetwork site is not to stifle free speech but to clarify it. We recognize that…
