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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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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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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 …
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 …
Continue reading “The Trans Issue and the Moral Vacuity of the Left!”
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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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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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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Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt recently announced that the White House will henceforth be deciding which news outlets will be included in the Press Pool given access to the president’s various public pronouncements. For decades, she said, the White House Correspondents Association [the W.H.C.A.], a group of D.C. journalists representing the “legacy media,” had more …
On Feb. 21 Not the Bee published an article entitled: “Why isn’t the media talking about the 70 Christians that were just beheaded?” The author’s claim that many Western news outlets were ignoring the story was somewhat corroborated by my dozen or so friends who get their news from mainstream T.V., yet knew nothing of …
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On Sunday, Feb 16, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was invited to join Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation in a discussion of the Friday speech by J.D. Vance in Munich before the leaders of the European Union. Given that conservatives cherish certain traditional Western values utterly inconsistent with the D.E.I. worldview, Vance excoriated the …
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