Nancy Pelosi has rushed to defend the latest victims of Trump’s truth campaign. “Does he not believe in the spark of divinity, the dignity and worth of every person?” Her question/accusation speaks to the heart of the Left’s Achille’s Heel. They must give moral equivalence to everyone and everything that is not aligned with the... Continue Reading →
Collectivism Could Not Exist Without Authoritarianism
In a conversation with a couple of friends recently, I was asked why I am so adamantly opposed to collectivism. The reasons are quite simple. The underlying premise of all collectivism be it socialism, communism, fascism, democratic socialism, national socialism, progressivism, racial supremacy, religious primacy or whatever - relies on the concept of a class... Continue Reading →
Fake News – Propaganda in Our Day: Part 2 – Name Calling
The repertoire of the propagandist is actually quite limited but the myriad variations of this limited number of tools is astounding. As I mentioned in Part 1 of this series, the IPA delineated 7 specific devices or tactics employed by the propagandist. Here is that list again with a brief description of each: Name Calling... Continue Reading →
Fake News: The Propaganda of Our Time – Part 1
If you think fake news is anything modern or unprecedented, you have failed to listen to the voices of history. Fake news used to be called exactly what it is: propaganda. It is critical that we take a minute or two and step back from the loud cacophonous sounds of what passes for public debate... Continue Reading →
Consider the Source
It has been interesting watching the progressives and party establishment types along with their academic and media acolytes striving to come up with a plausible answer as to why they lost the past election cycle. I am not just referring to the election of Donald Trump, but also to the complete evisceration of the left’s... Continue Reading →
The True Racists in Politics
It is passing strange how supposedly “educated” students have been shouting and carrying signs in a manufactured “outrage” and who charge all those who disagree with them (Trump, primarily) as being the KKK., Fascists, racists, when absolutely nothing could be further from the truth. Those three labels bantered about by the truly ignorant or the... Continue Reading →