Conscious of the Benighted Conscious of the Benighted A classical liberal philosophy blog ~ presenting a satirical reactionary view of the progressive corruption of liberalism in the west over the past century.
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who will tell mr friedman
2008-05-13 23:54:00 COMMENTATY A reply to Thomas L. Friedman's Who will tell the people?. Kennedy Airport is an interesting thing Mr Friedman brought up. So it is degrading because of Iraq/Bush and not because it is managed by the port authority of NewYork/New Jersey. Not because of the Democratic city council of NYC, not because of the Democratic controlled legislatures of New York and New Jersey, nor their
the time for debate is over
2008-04-27 20:01:00 DIVISIVE POLITICS What is this bring the country together united belamy? If everyone agrees on a public policy that does not make it good public policy. If by disagreeing with a policy against a super-majority of people, does that make one unpatriotic (or divisive to use the parlance of the Dems)? Well lets trot out some mobs, er... unity governments from the 20th century to present. Oh the More About: Time , Debate , The Time
throw out the rules
2008-03-08 01:22:00 PRIMARIES Those poor souls in Florida and Michigan being disenfranchised and all - what a shame. It's almost enough to make them want to follow the party rules. Of course if the rules were followed they would not be victims and victimhood is quite a badge of honor. (Can you believe those evil people who chuckle and say rules are rules). Not to mention all the home owners sucker punched by the More About: Rules , Throw , The Rules
freedom from reality
2008-02-16 00:55:00 ROLE OF GOVERNMENT FDR promoted freedom from want. As if such a goal could be achieved. Across the whole of human history, suffering has existed and its a safe bet will always exist. The line between dreamers who push the envelope and the madman's fantasy world is very hard to discern. The politics of meaning of the day during the Fascist Roosevelt years, has not been undone to this day. Its More About: Freedom , Reality
what is mine can be yours
2008-02-16 00:25:00 TAXES The personal income tax code is largely immoral. Properly put the IRS as an entity is not immoral itself, being inert, but rather the majority of congress that passed the laws and the president who signed the laws. It is immoral to take income and redistribute it to politically embraced majorities. That is what happens in this Nation. The middle class majority has instituted a progressive More About: Mine
maverick for whom
2008-02-08 02:17:00 PRIMARIES All right, All right - McCain is not ideal. He buys the global warming bonanza, incumbent campaign protection, thinks bloody non-state murderers deserve Geneva rights, and has voted against tax cuts. He is a Teddy Roosevelt progressive. OK. But on the defining issues of the day and into the early 21st century he is correct (global warming will hopefully fizzle away within the next
animal farm
2008-01-29 05:41:00 PETS Most people are either of the cat or dog loving variety - those who love both are animal freaks. Dogs of course gorge themselves on any food in front of their face - they can not be left alone. As puppies they chew everything and dump over the trash that has to be cleaned up, even if you work the night shift. Dogs you can take for long walks and watch the sun move in the sky. They sit on More About: Animal , Farm
the hip city
2008-01-05 07:02:00 METROPOLITAN The hip city has quite a buzz about it. It is the place where people want to live - or at least like the idea that they live there. They may not participate in all the aspects of the hip city that make it hip - yet they pleasure in reciting facts of its hipness to others - living in blandness yet fainting grittiness. All of the hip cities bonds get passed to subsidise More About: City
intelligent design schools
2007-11-24 06:19:00 EVOLUTION Fearing Darwin the administrators hunker down clinging to their faith, but their god is good and will not abandon them. No one, after all, wants to leave a child behind with the rapture fast approaching - the second coming (Hilary?) This impending NCLB Armageddon will separate the sheep from the goats and the administrators are taking some heat, being the scape goats. Natural selection More About: Intelligent Design , Design , Schools , Intelligent
algore tripple threat
2007-10-13 01:33:00 AL GORE We've always know Algore to be an eloquent rapper - the presidential debates featured some hard core dubs with the whole lockbox loop. He won the popular vote for American President by a half million (1/2%) in 2000 loosing Florida by a mere 500 votes (also 1/2%). So we know his rap sheet: 5-4 in the supreme court - just one vote short. We know Algore can act as evidenced by his Oscar win More About: Threat , Ripple
keep the amt
2007-10-10 05:33:00 TAXATION The fair tax has been getting a fair hearing as of late, at least within the GOP. Like most things, in theory it is all pristine - on the surface the premise appears good, but beyond the facade lies hidden dangers. The proposal: Repeal the 16th amendment, abolish the IRS, add a VAT or national sales tax of 30% on all goods and services. Simple enough, taxing consumption rather than
mccarthy cures autism
2007-09-29 02:05:00 DISABILITY Good news folks. Former playmate and MTV Singled Out host Jenny McCarthy has discovered the cure for Autism . All it takes is a detoxifying diet and some magic crystals and wammo: the magical cure. Of course the immunization/mercury link has long ben dispelled by serious researchers - but with autism rates multiplying ad infinitum the weekly newsines are getting restless. (My own
belt drive
2007-09-25 05:50:00 FASHION Rosanne apparently free from having any type of career going at the time (singing the national anthem was definitely not an option), decided to donate time at the local charity. They were in the middle of a canned food drive and asked her to head the committee assigned for the winter clothing drive. This was prep work - right up her alley. She called the first committee meeting to order More About: Drive , Belt
third party foul
2007-09-22 01:43:00 COERCION Evidence points to inequality of decision making. Some people routinely make good choices as judged by society while others routinely shoot themselves in the foot. The scientific management model of modern liberals assumes rough genetic equality with observed differences explained mostly by environment. Using a diminishing marginal utility model, they can explain lazy unmotivated More About: Party , Third Party , Third
crucify u.s.
2007-09-21 05:01:00 PACIFISM With their freudian religious undertones slipping out while trying to sound secular the pacifists wish for the nations crucifixion. You see the nation has been a sinner of late, actually for most of its existence. The numerous taints on the nations soul include stealing Indian land, slavery, industrialization, segregation, nuclear weapons, Vietnam, cold-war realpolitik, Iraq 1, post
sports fanatics saved souls
2007-09-11 03:31:00 SPORTS LIBERALISM Troy Smith could not have won the Heisman trophy without Maurice Clarett. They never played on the field in the same year - but came in on the same recruiting class of 2002 at The Ohio State University. Clarett played as a true freshman Autumn of '02 winning the national championship. Then he filed a fraudulent insurance claim summer '03, and was suspended from the team. After More About: Sports , Souls , Fanatics
aclu where are you
2007-08-29 00:48:00 HYPOCRISY Tapping on the floor a secret code is a crime in the Minneapolis Airport bathroom. In an unjust undercover operation an Evil Conservative is swept up - by expressing his constitutionally protected right to speech and sexual privacy. But don't worry, the ACLU will be filing a complaint soon and will be joined by Rossie O'Donnell, Jessie Jackson et al - in a massive march against the
disregard higher standards of living
2007-08-13 03:15:00 WALMART Well, you all know what Walmart represents? The absolute conquest of America to make this nation a factory town. First it was a department store destroying the mom and pop shops that are so vital to society. Then they branched out into groceries in Super Walmart incarnation, adding fuel and car service centers along the way. Look at the front of the store now (for you good spirited More About: Standards , Living , Higher
non blood nation
2007-08-07 05:12:00 MULTI-CULTURALISM Given that we are more pluralistic than Europe, what attributes distinguish us from Europe and need to be emphasized for one cultural Nation al identity? Of course the multi-culturalists with their segregated - hyphenated - vision for the American Nation will resent any effort by immigrants to assimilate. Best to keep them segregated to their foreign ways and pigeon-holed into More About: Blood
progressives fight progress
2007-08-01 03:04:00 OWNERSHIP SOCIETY Liberal progressives can be downright bulwarks against change. They favor mostly the unstabilitating kind of change - social change. This change in effect leads to humanities long natural history of self-efficacy to diminish into state oppression, with all the promises of government to help the broken family actually removing all incentives for nuclear family formation. Once More About: Fight , Progress , Progressives
the great roundup begins
2007-07-09 05:12:00 IMMIGRATION The elites brave debate has been silenced by the benighted masses. Even with the ad hoc endorsement of amnesty by the old media and polls confirming their stewardship of the issue, immigration reform has been stopped. Kennedy's shouting to opponents about the evil of their plan to roundup and send 20 million illegals home summed up the debate: since option one (the roundup) is More About: Roundup , Great , The G
last of the great society
2007-06-25 04:04:00 HIPPIES This is the last gasp for the summer of love - their present positions in the media, government bureaucracy and academia are at a pinnacle and will only recede in the coming decades. This is their Tet offensive - apparitionaly winning, but they may end up on the wrong side of history. Back in the late sixties/ early seventies communism was still expanding, the west was beginning a More About: Society , Great , The G
dont ask your doctor
2007-06-10 02:29:00 HEALTH CARE Spiraling health costs can easily be reduced by curtailing all the new medicine and procedures that cost so much. Big Pharma is our enemy driving up costs - we should take the European model and not let them advertise the benefits of their drugs. That way consumers are kept in the dark over what potential ailments they have and do not see their doctor to learn more. This is the fault More About: Doctor
law and order
2007-06-07 04:04:00 FRED THOMPSON What's not to like about Fred Thompson? Well he supports campaign finance reform (incumbent protection reform), but that is about it for now. He actually sounds like a politician who believes in the Constitutions provisions for federalism/states rights. Economics and national defense - so far so good. Entitlement reform will hopefully be a major focus in the GOP primaries. Giuliani More About: Law and Order , Order
gwb america
2007-06-05 01:01:00 MODERN LIBERAL LAMENT This is George W. Bushes America . We live in tyranny with detention camps, torture and wiretaps. 40 million Americans are uninsured and the genocide in Darfur continues. The US ignored Hiv/aids too long in Africa. Big oil has jacked up gas to over $3 a gallon and global warming is spreading rapidly. The assault weapons ban has lapsed and look at the Virginia Tech massacre.
select news fit to print
2007-05-22 00:53:00 NEWS MEDIA The news is a report of what is new so they don't report much on what has remained the same. Advertising is their customer so they report mainly to get viewers/readers that advertisers want to reach. The fact that some things are getting better all the time is not news in the sense that no political action is needed. They only report the expose and love to report acute rather than More About: News , Print , Select
jimmy leaving for caracas
2007-05-18 03:06:00 SOCIALISM Why is everyone leaving? The Democratic Republic of Germany (communist newspeak for socialism) had to build a wall around West Berlin to keep all of east Germany leaving for West Germany. More people left Vietnam after the fall of Saigon then immigrated there. North Koreans are trapped deep inside an isolated totalitarianism. Rafters are leaving Cuba in droves - don't they know about More About: Jimmy , Leaving , Caracas
research mercantilism
2007-05-06 05:32:00 STEM CELLS How is the nation responsible for a new research discovery assigned? Much research is done and credited as being discovered in the US, but often by foreign born persons - some US citizens, some with student visas. Half of all grad students are from over seas - largess of the US taxpayer to the university system. The brain drain from the rest of the world seems to benefit us well but More About: Research , Mercantilism
the sky is falling again
2007-05-05 02:34:00 RECYCLING Just because one time one trash barge could not get rid of its garbage from NYC does not mean that there is a lack of landfill space. Just because an area you remember as farmland as a kid now has houses does not mean that sprawl is overwhelming farmland. Whoever believes these things has never been on an airplane across the U.S. When you look down there is barely anything there -
college for everyone
More articles from this author:2007-05-04 03:37:00 IMMIGRATION Marxists talk as though people where living an idyllic country life and then rounded up - almost against their will - forced to move to the cities and work in factories. They mention the squalor and suffering of the cities, but most likely this was occurring in the country side - just concentration in the city made the problems more acute, less diffuse. Then Henry Ford came along, More About: College 1, 2 |
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