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Liberals are good people. But liberalism is cruel, corrupt, unjust, wasteful, and deluded. The readings below witness to the day-to-day working out of this truth.
“deluded” items
Locking up Criminals
Theodore Dalrymple argues that the effect of liberal sentimentality "is to confer on an immense number of one’s fellow beings the status of objects."
“unjust” items
Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege
Sen. James Webb (D-VA) explodes the liberal narrative.
Understanding Illegitimacy
in 2008, 40.6 percent of children were born outside marriage, and liberals don't seem to mind.
Brit boys turning to gangs
Abandoned by their parents, betrayed by schools, young boys are now turning to criminal gangs for protection and a sense of belonging. by Harriet Sergeant
Feral youths in Britain
How a generation of violent, illiterate young men are living outside the boundaries of civilised society by Harriet Sergeant
Black Conservatives Hold Protest at NAACP Over Ken Gladney Attack
Healthcare and race. Only it's the left that's attacking blacks.
You'll lose 5 key freedoms under Obama's health care plan
here's what we'll lose: choose what's in your plan; reward for healthy living; high deductible; keep existing plan; choose your doctor
“cruel” items
Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege
Sen. James Webb (D-VA) explodes the liberal narrative.
Public employment destroys private sector jobs
"on average, the creation of 100 public jobs eliminated about 150 private-sector jobs, decreased overall labor-market participation slightly, and increased by about 33 the number of unemployed workers."
Understanding Illegitimacy
in 2008, 40.6 percent of children were born outside marriage, and liberals don't seem to mind.
Brit boys turning to gangs
Abandoned by their parents, betrayed by schools, young boys are now turning to criminal gangs for protection and a sense of belonging. by Harriet Sergeant
Machetes by the door, drugs on the table
- and mothers paid by the state to have babies with men they barely know. What HAVE we done to the British family? by Harriet Sergeant
Feral youths in Britain
How a generation of violent, illiterate young men are living outside the boundaries of civilised society by Harriet Sergeant
A Deck Stacked With Race Cards
Hey! Fish gotta swim. Liberals gotta accuse everyone of racism.,
Black Conservatives Hold Protest at NAACP Over Ken Gladney Attack
Healthcare and race. Only it's the left that's attacking blacks.
Skip Gates and Obama Play Race Card
Shelby Steele calls out the demons in powerful black men.
You'll lose 5 key freedoms under Obama's health care plan
here's what we'll lose: choose what's in your plan; reward for healthy living; high deductible; keep existing plan; choose your doctor
GovernmentCare's Assault on Seniors
reducing costs by "limiting care based on the patient's age" and pressuring elderly to end life prematurely.
“corrupt” items
The Liberal Dilemma
according to Daniel Henninger some liberals are waking up to the truth that their programs are threatened by public employee pension obligations.
Insatiable Liberalism
Fred Siegel: how liberals went from "the possibilities of perfectibility" to "patronage and entitlements."
Gucci Gulch and the Tax System
in 1986 Ronald Reagan held Congress's feet to the fire to pass tax simplification. In 2010, hedgies are getting a free pass; they contribute to Democrats
“wasteful” items
Public employment destroys private sector jobs
"on average, the creation of 100 public jobs eliminated about 150 private-sector jobs, decreased overall labor-market participation slightly, and increased by about 33 the number of unemployed workers."
Machetes by the door, drugs on the table
- and mothers paid by the state to have babies with men they barely know. What HAVE we done to the British family? by Harriet Sergeant
What Liberals Think About Conservatives
[W]hen I asked a liberal longtime editor I know with a mainstream [publishing] house for a candid, shorthand version of the assumptions she and her colleagues make about conservatives, she didn't hesitate. “Racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-choice fascists,” she offered, smiling but meaning it.
Harry Stein, I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican
Racial Discrimination
[T]he way “to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis,”
Brown II, 349 U. S., at 300–301, is to stop assigning students on a racial basis. The way to stop
discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
Roberts, C.J., Parents Involved in Community Schools vs. Seattle School District
Liberal Coercion
[T]he Liberal, and still more the subspecies Radical... more than any other in these latter days seems under the impression that so long as he has a good end in view he is warranted in exercising over men all the coercion he is able[.]
Herbert Spencer, The Man Versus the State
Churches
[In the] higher Christian churches… they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a string of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger. If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it every minute.
Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
Sacrifice
[Every] sacrifice is an act of impurity that pays for a prior act of greater impurity... without its participants having to suffer the full consequences incurred by its predecessor. The punishment is commuted in a process that strangely combines and finesses the deep contradiction between justice and mercy.
Frederick Turner, Beauty: The Value of Values
Pentecostalism
Within Pentecostalism the injurious hierarchies of the wider world are abrogated and replaced by a single hierarchy of faith, grace, and the empowerments of the spirit... where groups gather on rafts to take them through the turbulence of the great journey from extensive rural networks to the mega-city and the nuclear family...
David Martin, On Secularization
Conservatism's Holy Grail
What distinguishes true Conservatism from the rest, and from the Blair project, is the belief in more personal freedom and more market freedom, along with less state intervention... The true Third Way is the Holy Grail of Tory politics today - compassion and community without compulsion.
Minette Marrin, The Daily Telegraph
Moral Imperatives of Modern Culture
These emerge out of long-standing moral notions of freedom, benevolence, and the affirmation of ordinary life... I have been sketching a schematic map... [of] the moral sources [of these notions]... the original theistic grounding for these standards... a naturalism of disengaged reason, which in our day takes scientistic forms, and a third family of views which finds its sources in Romantic expressivism, or in one of the modernist successor visions.
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self
Drang nach Osten
There was nothing new about the Frankish drive to the east... [let] us recall that the continuance of their rule depended upon regular, successful, predatory warfare.
Richard Fletcher, The Barbarian Conversion
Government Expenditure
The Union publishes an exact return of the amount of its taxes; I can get copies of the budgets of the four and twenty component states; but who can tell me what the citizens spend in the administration of county and township?
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America