When the vast majority of one’s friends seem to share the same world-view, those not prone to rational introspection simply fall victim to the dominant political biases of their era. It is that state of mindless acquiescence that has led even my most educated of acquaintances to fall in line with many of the truly …
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Dostoevsky: Wisdom is Ageless!
Just came across a wonderful quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky who, over 150 years ago, epitomized the absurdity of the contemporary Left’s obsession with Inclusiveness in a single sentence. It reads: “Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.” Such has been the …
The Mainstream Press: An Endless River of Drivel
On Nov. 9, in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory, Canada’s Globe and Mail published a massive opinion piece consisting of more than two dozen paragraphs by Andrew Coyne whose affiliation with both The Globe and the CBC aptly suggests the Leftist bias of his worldview. Entitled “Sometimes the people get it wrong,” the article, …
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The Ladies of The View: A Cultural Embarrassment!
A few weeks ago the ladies of The View spent a good deal of time roasting Trump’s White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt. The nature of their attacks illustrates perfectly why this Blog is called “The Politics of Hate.” Whoopi referred to Leavitt as a Barbie, a word that is no less reductive, insulting and …
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Stifling Free Speech: Both Sides are Guilty!
Mark Carney, Canada’s new Prime Minister, recently held his first press conference from which the conservative Rebel News Network was banned. This was hardly a surprise inasmuch as the Trudeau government had repeatedly spurned the network as a hateful disseminator of far-right lies. I subscribe to The Rebel and see its various commentators as rational, …
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Jane Fonda’s “Woke” SAG Rant
Given a lifetime achievement award by The Screen Actors Guild on Feb. 23, Jane Fonda used the opportunity to demonize America’s apparent slide towards the political Right. Outraged by the flip dismissals of “wokeness” coming from various conservative commentators, she said quite simply: “Woke just means you give a damn about other people.” Her obvious …
The Trans Issue and the Moral Vacuity of the Left!
On Mon., Mar. 3, the U.S. Senate rejected The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, introduced by Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville, by a vote of 51 to 45. Not a single Democrat voted in favour of the bill! Appearing on the Chris Stigall show of the Salem News Network, Paula Scanlan, a staunch …
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The Horror! Bezos favours Freedom of Speech!
Billionaire Jeff Bezos, who bought the Washington Post in 2013, recently announced the new set of criteria the paper will be using in determining which editorials make it to its opinion pages. His explained himself as follows: “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and …
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Amy Coney Barrett: Partisanship vs. Reason
Today, Mar. 6, Townhall published an article by Matt Vespa on Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative Supreme Court Judge appointed by Donald Trump early in 2020. Entitled “Do We Have an Amy Coney Barrett Problem,” it suggests that Barrett is somehow a traitor to her values in that she has not supported the Trump/Republican point …
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Is Trump the monster reviled by the Left?
As a Canadian whose primary academic interests have always been the literary and philosophical traditions of the West, I was not, up until the recent past, much interested in politics. Yet I was always aware of a certain amount of resentment in this country against our neighbour to the South for its apparent assumption that …
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