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Tag Archives: ideology
A Leftblogger Veto
After the John Brennan experience, Obama is having trouble finding qualified intelligence experts who are ideologically acceptable to liberal bloggers. Pleased to see we have our security priorities in the right place.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged CIA, ideology, intelligence, John Brennan, liberal bloggers, Obama
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Shouting at Six Feet of Dirt
(image: Planetsave) Apparently PETA’s taste for misanthropy has motivated them to enter a new promotional market: the manufacture of human coffins. As you can see above, the result is a kind of bumpersticker for a corpse. A note of caution. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics
Tagged animal rights, bumpersticker, coffins, eulogists, funerals, ideology, marketing, misanthropy, peta, planetsave, slogans
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Against Galt
Synova wrote a little post that gets halfway to where I would come down on this perennial parlor game of the John Galt general strike. Sy recognized that to be successful, such a revolt would realistically be a miserable experience … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Culture, Lee's Page, Libertarianism
Tagged America, Aristotle, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Carl Schmitt, collectivism, Conservatism, constitutional order, Culture, democracy, epiphany, Eric Hoffer, fascism, futurism, Galt's Gulch, general will, government, group identity, guardians, ideology, individualism, John Galt, justice, liberal democracy, liberalism, Libertarianism, literary style, literature, materialism, Objectivism, Plato, popular democracy, radicalism, Randianism, revolt, revolution, Rousseau, salvation, sectionalism, seperatism, skepticism, socia, social justice, strike, war, William F Buckley
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Palinmania Snippets
Like so many others, Elizabeth Johnson is out for that Palin look. Sarah always has such choice footwear…and eyewear retailers are getting explicit in their advertising. In case you were curious, this is where you end up when your anti-Palin … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged advertising, Alaska, childhood, Elizabeth Johnson, eyewear, fashion, glasses, hysteria, ideology, Palin, Palinmania, political indoctrication, Sarah Palin, style, women
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BNP Youth Cult
The British National Party has started a cryptofascist youth camp. The Mirror seems a little overly concerned about the presence of rifles and pocket knives, when it’s the ideological education ought to be most objectionable.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged BNP, British National Party, cryptofascist, ideology, The, UK, youth
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China and Provincial Secessionism
Extremely interesting post from Seth Weinberger on the opportunity for pulling China in the pro-Georgia camp, after the SCO failed to endorse Russian actions in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Seth is as mystified as I am that the Russian foreign … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Abkhazia, China, expansionism, foreign policy, Georgia, ideology, Mao, prc, Russian foreign ministry, SCO, secession, secessionism, separatism, Seth Weinberger, South Ossetia, taiwan, tibet, United States
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Christopher Hitchens on Robert Mugabe
I’d heard that Hitch addressed the situation in Zimbabwe in his introductory remarks at the Freedom Fest 2008 debate with Dinesh D’Souza, but I hadn’t seen the video of it until today. It’s worth a watch. The subject of the … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs
Tagged Africa, anticolonialism, Catholic, Christopher Hitchens, Dinesh D'Souza, Freedom Fest, God, Harare, hypocrisy, ideology, Maoism, Mugabe, mythology, nationalism, racism, religion, Rhodesia, Robert Mugabe, secularism, socialism, western, Zimbabwe
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The Emergence of Ideological Fantasism
The explosion of enthusiasm for Palin on just about every conservative blog and media outlet has apparently gone unnoticed at the DailyKos, which is predicting that Sarah represents a divisive force, who will soon fracture and ultimately destroy the Republican … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008
Tagged conservative, DailyKos, fantasism, fantasy, ideological, ideology, McCain, neocons, neoconservatives, Palin, political narratives, Ronpaulism, Ronpaulist, Sarah Palin
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Toward a New Italian Left
Here’s a fascinating little article on Walter Veltroni, the mayor of Rome and the new leading light of the Italian Left. Vetroni has worked to create a more moderate and flexible social democratic political culture in Italy. Modeling his new … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged American, Democratic Party, Democrats, extremism, ideology, Iran, Italy, moderation, socialism, Third Way, Tony Blair, Walter Veltroni
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