Leftism
December 14, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Minnesota’s absurdly left-wing government has undertaken to design a new state flag and Great Seal. Why? Currently, the state flag is just the seal against a background. This is the seal. It shows a farmer and an Indian with a background suitable to Minnesota, including a pine forest and a waterfall which is St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis: The current seal includes Minnesota’s motto–“L’Etoile du Nord,” Star of the North–and
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December 8, 2023 — John Hinderaker
It is hard to understand why a wide range of non-governmental organizations, including but not limited to news organizations, have become embedded with Hamas in Gaza and are on Hamas’s side. A case in point is the Red Cross. From the Jerusalem Post: Families of Israelis being held hostage by Hamas were reprimanded by representatives of the Red Cross in a meeting earlier this week, with the Red Cross telling
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December 6, 2023 — John Hinderaker
…now they are coming for your meat. Global warming, the universal excuse for left-wing policies designed to make your life worse, demands that modern agriculture be shut down. If you think that is an exaggeration, talk to anyone in Sri Lanka or the Netherlands. The UN’s COP28 global warming conference in Dubai is turning its attention to agriculture: Climate advocacy groups are pressuring world governments gathered at this year’s United
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December 4, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Among the many leftists who have expressed support for Hamas, seemingly unconcerned with its outrages of October 7, is Greta Thunberg. Thunberg, now 20 years old, is regarded as a heroine by many for her uncompromising demand that the Western world (she hasn’t visited China, to my knowledge) stop using fossil fuels. Just the News reports (see original for links): Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is dividing the climate movement
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November 29, 2023 — John Hinderaker
You’re not paranoid. The global ruling class really does want to stop you from eating beef. And pork. And chicken. From Climate Depot: The world’s most-developed nations will be told to curb their excessive appetite for meat as part of the first comprehensive plan to bring the global agrifood industry into line with the Paris climate agreement. The global food systems’ road map to 1.5C is expected to be published
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November 17, 2023 — John Hinderaker
When I see hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating, rioting, carrying signs, organized and following some kind of leadership, I always wonder: who paid for this? In the case of the anti-Semitism that currently is sweeping across America, there seems to be a pretty simple answer. At the Free Press, Francesca Block answers the question: The pro-Palestinian protests over the last month, where tens of thousands in the U.S. have
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November 1, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The Democratic Party is undergoing a civil war over Gaza and Israel. Traditional Democrats like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are pro-Israel. Possibly this has something to do with the fact that American Jews contribute a large portion–last time I saw the numbers, more than half–of all campaign funds for Democratic candidates. To be fair, however, it may also reflect basic human decency. But the newer generation of
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October 31, 2023 — John Hinderaker
This morning, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee on behalf to the Biden administration’s supplementary funding request for Ukraine and Israel. Blinken’s testimony was repeatedly interrupted by pro-genocide protesters. The protesters timed their interruptions so that every couple of minutes the hearing would be suspended: Blinken is a partisan hack, but this outpouring of anti-Semitism was outrageous. It is
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October 26, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar has an undistinguished legislative record. She has been a master of small-ball politics, sponsoring unimportant but superficially appealing bills while excelling at constituent service. But now, Klobuchar has stepped out as an advocate for censorship, a key Democratic Party priority. On October 19, she wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos, complaining that when Amazon’s Alexa, which “relies on a variety of sources to answer questions,” responds
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October 23, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday there was a pro-genocide rally in Minneapolis that took over a major highway and illegally blocked traffic. The demonstrators stood up for baby-burning, gang rape, kidnapping and mass homicide. Just another day in a land where immigration policy has been off the rails for a long time. The invaluable Andy Ngo has the story: https://t.co/C2Dz7xdCTP — Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) October 23, 2023 The pro-Palestine rioters in Minneapolis chased
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October 21, 2023 — John Hinderaker
This afternoon, more than 5,000 demonstrators rallied in Brooklyn, demanding an end to Jews in the Middle East: At least 5,000 anti-Israeli protesters filled the streets of Bay Ridge Saturday at a rally where they called for the eradication of the Jewish state and demanded the United States withdraw its support of its closest ally in the Middle East. “Eradication of the Jewish state” means “Death to the Jews.” “We
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October 19, 2023 — John Hinderaker
My opinion of leftists is so low that I am hard to disappoint. But I admit to being shocked by the reaction of many leftists and liberals to the Gazan invasion of Israel. In many instances, they feel no obligation even to disavow the Gazans’ mass murder, gang rapes, kidnappings and beheadings of infants. They go straight to denouncing Israel for imagined crimes and, in some instances, attacking anticipated actions
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October 12, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Floyd Mayweather is one of the greatest fighters of all time, but he has never claimed to be a moral paragon. Still, he knows where he stands on decapitating babies: God bless Floyd Mayweather pic.twitter.com/X9IaE5jzRO — Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) October 11, 2023 You have to be much, much smarter than a mere boxer to contemplate gang rape, mass murder of men, women and children, taking of hostages, spitting on
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October 11, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The people who endorsed Hamas’s decapitation of infants, mass murders, gang rapes and so on are scattering like cockroaches when the light goes on. One wonders: how could they possibly have been so stupid? The answer is that they are slaves to an ideology that, while preposterous, is common in institutions of “higher” education and other leftist precincts. And, now, in America’s K-12 public schools. My colleague Bill Walsh explores
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October 10, 2023 — John Hinderaker
There is no doubt that if they can, the Palestinians and their Iranian allies will kill every Jew in the State of Israel. That is their oft-stated goal. On Saturday night, Gaza’s military took a step in the direction of genocide by massacring 900 or more Israelis, most of them women and children. All normal people have been horrified by the video and photographic evidence of the horrors that were
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October 10, 2023 — John Hinderaker
My opinion of the Left is so low that I would have said I am impossible to disappoint. And yet…via InstaPundit, we see this, which can only be construed as an endorsement of Gaza’s sneak attack on Israel: A sitting member of Congress @RashidaTlaib flying the Palestine flag outside her office… Is she supporting the #HamasMassacre? pic.twitter.com/n8wACqJLzN — Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) October 10, 2023 So at least one Democratic member
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October 8, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Around the world, groups of Muslims turned out to celebrate Hamas’s successful sneak attack on Israel. More surprisingly, perhaps, the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America also demonstrated in Times Square in favor of the invasion. That would be the chapter to which Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez belongs. At least six members of the House of Representatives are also members of DSA: 🗣️🗣️🗣️ Tomorrow, October 8, at 1PM. Times
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