Leftism
May 13, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In 2002, a Twin Cities gang member, Myon Burrell, murdered an 11-year-old girl named Tyesha Edwards. She was sitting innocently in her home when a bullet fired incompetently by Burrell in a gang shoot-out brought her life to an end. Burrell was sentenced to life in prison for Edwards’ murder. But someone–who was it?–wrote years ago about the mismatch between the dead victim and the living murderer. The murderer can
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May 13, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Dartmouth has avoided the ignominy suffered by some of its Ivy peers during the current anti-Semitic moment. That is because its president, Sian Leah Beilock–I missed it when Congress passed a statute requiring every university president to be a woman–has reacted swiftly to illegal demonstrations on Dartmouth’s campus. The major incident was when anti-Jewish protesters erected tents on the Dartmouth Green, surrounded by anti-Semites who linked arms to “protect” the
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May 11, 2024 — John Hinderaker
A family member pointed out this PETA tweet as an object of derision: Just a reminder that tuna fish are individuals who didn’t want to die to be your sushi dinner. — PETA (@peta) May 5, 2024 Heh. Are tuna fish “individuals” that shouldn’t be caught and eaten? That is an easy view to mock, as many did in comments on PETA’s tweet. As commenters pointed out, tuna are predators.
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May 5, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The anti-Semitic and anti-American protests that have engulfed college campuses are among the most disgraceful events of our recent history. A lot of people want to know, who is paying for, supporting and coordinating these outrages? Politico has been looking into that question: President Joe Biden has been dogged for months by pro-Palestinian protesters calling him “Genocide Joe” — but some of the groups behind the demonstrations receive financial backing
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May 4, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
The surge of pro-Hamas “protesters” on American campuses has some pundits puzzled. On the other hand, past events help explain the dynamics in play. On August 3, 1981, some 13,000 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), walked off their jobs. “They are in violation of the law,” said President Ronald Reagan, “and if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs
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April 29, 2024 — John Hinderaker
So who is behind the kill-the-Jews campus protests that, as Steve noted earlier today, have panicked Congressional Democrats who fear a political debacle as in 1968? Consistent with the retro nature of the protests, the organizers appear to be largely left-wing retreads, with a financial assist, it is reported, from one or more Soros entities. Take, for example, Charlotte Kates. Kates has been prominent in the Columbia protests: Radical anti-Israel
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April 27, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Modern liberals have distilled the true essence of Marxism, which is the idea that every human relationship is exploitative. Lenin summed it up as “who/whom”–who is doing what to whom? Of course this idea is ridiculous. Most human relationships, whether personal or economic, are not exploitative. But Marx’s idea has a perennial appeal to the discontented, and is endlessly malleable to suit the neuroses of the day. Thus, modern Marxists
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April 22, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Am I a fan of Alec Baldwin? No. I am not sure how he got famous, and I don’t think I have ever seen him on screen or on television. And I harshly criticized his careless handling of a firearm that resulted in a death on the set of a movie in which he starred. However. There are worse people. And in this video, you see one of them, as
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April 18, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The evil that is now running rampant across our country is ostensibly directed at Israel, but Israel is only the pretext, a target of convenience. We have seen in recent months that “anti-Zionism” is merely a cover for anti-Semitism. If Israel disappeared tomorrow, the anti-Semites here, in Western Europe and elsewhere, wouldn’t miss a beat. But it doesn’t stop there. In Iranian and al Qaeda ideology, Israel is only the
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April 14, 2024 — John Hinderaker
We have written a number of times about Mary Moriarty, the leftist who now serves as County Attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota. Moriarty is a former public defender who thinks her job as prosecutor is to take the side of criminals. When she was sworn in as county attorney, did she put her hand on the Bible or perhaps a copy of the Constitution? No: she rested it on a
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April 10, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Amnesty International, like the American Civil Liberties Union, is a once-good organization that was taken over by leftists and no longer stands for any worthwhile principles. Thus: Even by “human rights group” standards, this is scandalous. Does tell you what Amnesty et al. think of Jewish lives, though. Walid Daqqa led a PFLP cell that abducted a young IDF soldier, Moshe Tamam, in 1984, gouged his eyes out, castrated him,
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April 6, 2024 — John Hinderaker
On Thursday evening, a malevolent crowd at a public forum at Rutgers threatened Jewish students and drove the university’s president from the room. The Free Beacon reports: A Rutgers University town hall descended into anarchy Thursday evening as anti-Israel students chanted demands to “globalize the intifada”… “Globalize the intifada” means that no Jew should ever be able to live in safety, anywhere in the world. …hurled anti-Semitic insults at Jewish
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April 2, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden revived one of the Democrat/left’s greatest hits in his shoutfest that passed for a State of the Union address last month: And now it’s my goal to cut the federal deficit $3 trillion more by making big corporations and the very wealthy finally pay their fair share. Look, I’m a capitalist. If you want to make a million bucks – great! Just pay your fair share in taxes.
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April 1, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This video is entertaining, and it tends to confirm what we have long suspected about the sincerity of those who purport to believe in “identifying.” I think a lot of people on the left are happy to dismiss reality until they are dealing with something that matters to them. Enjoy: Give this guy a medal! 😂 pic.twitter.com/6FArsDSLZY — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 31, 2024
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March 30, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Some teachers are fine as individuals, but when you put them in a group, the result is disaster. In America, teachers’ unions are the most malign influence on our public life, and on our children. And they aren’t any better in Great Britain. The London Times headlines: “Teaching union is accused of hostility to Jews.” The UK’s largest teaching union has been accused of being hostile to Jewish teachers after
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March 26, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Some time ago, a house in my neighborhood started flying a gay/trans flag. In response, I suspect, two nearby houses started flying American flags. But recently, there was a change: the gay/trans flag was replaced by the Scottish flag: If you remember Scotland as a country of highland clans, conservative Presbyterians and fearsome warriors, that may seem strange to you. But actually, it makes perfect sense: Scotland is being transformed
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March 22, 2024 — John Hinderaker
It was Scott who first referred to the sacramental view of abortion, some years ago now. Abortion (much like slavery over the course of the 19th century) went from being a regrettable but sometimes unavoidable evil to being a positive good–indeed, these days, the noblest good to which political life can aspire. To see this perverse attitude in full flower, you almost have to live in Minnesota. Minnesota’s lieutenant governor,
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