Culture Warriors category archive
“What’s in a Name” 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini suggests an answer to that question:
Follow the link to review his evidence.
All the History that Fits 0
The whole story of the Southern “Lost Cause” was a myth (and, I would argue, Gone with the Wind, both the book and the movie, was one of the most successful pieces of political propaganda in history, but that’s another story).
And the New Secesh are still making stuff up.
Nazis for Neighbors 0
A little girl leaves her house to go to school and finds Nazi swastikas strewn over her front yard.
We are a broken society.
Originalist Sin 0
At the Sacramento Bee, Erwin Chemerinsky points out that the self-styled originalists on the Supreme Supremacist Court are quite willing to ignore “original intent” when it suits them. A snippet; follow the link for his evidence.
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Unfortunately, the current conservative majority on the Supreme Court is obliterating any notion of a wall separating church and state.
The Galt and the Users 0
At The San Francisco Chronicle, Stanford professor Keith Humphreys argues that those who would place the blame for drug problems on liberals and liberalism are looking in the wrong direction. A snippet:
What bedevils the city instead is its libertarian, individualistic culture.
Methinks he has a point, as libertarianism is the philosophy of “Me! Me! Me!” and liberalism is the philosophy of “we’re all in this together.”
Follow the link and decide for yourself.
Manufactured Malice 0
David Roth is fed up with the mongers of the phony non-existent “War on Christmas.” Here’s a bit from his article at the Idaho State Journal:
The Phony “War on Christmas” 0
Michael in Norfolk looks behind the agitprop:
Aside:
As I journey about my neighborhood, it looks to me that, if there is a “war on Christmas,” Christmas is sure as heck winning.
Save Just What, Exactly? 0
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I have found that those who trumpet most loudly their own patriotism, those most likely to wrap their bodies in the stars and stripes (in violation of the Flag Code, by the way, but that is quite another issue) while waving the Stars and Bars–the flag of treason, for Pete’s sake–are also those most likely to reject the idea that “all men are created equal,” however imperfectly it might have been practiced at the time of the Founding.
Rather, they would will restore if they could can America’s original sin of chattel slavery.
I say this as one whose ancestors wore the grey.
I’m a Southern Boy who grew up under Jim Crow.
I know racism when I see it.
Grasping at a Broken Straw 0
The Las Vegas Sun editorial board if we can’t get rid of the guns, we have to get rid of the prejudice.
I reckon their hearts are in the right place.
And, in other news, pigs, wings.