Showing posts with label Liberalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liberalism. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Liberals are Selective about Diversity

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           The opinion section of the March 10, 2023 ICO featured the ICO DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) tribe out in full force, as...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Violent Crime Highest in Blue Cities - Paul Krugman's Pants on Fire!

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Lately several liberal columnists – Paul Krugman is one – have written that the crime rate is higher in many Red than in Blue states. So I d...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

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Fact checking Liberal fact checkers is a full-time job. A local writer's letter to our local newspaper, the ICO, and Joe Biden’s d...
Monday, July 12, 2010

The Left's Census, Post Office, and Healthcare Follies

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The Left here in northern California has an incredible faith in government, quite unlike the Left of thirty or thereabouts years ago. For ex...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

Democrats for Public Healthcare Oppose School Choice

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Democrats for government healthcare – the public option – oppose school choice. Our publicly funded education option is not working well. A...
Saturday, August 01, 2009

"Birthers" vs. "Truthers" and "TANGers"

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Liberals are enjoying ridiculing Republicans who have doubts that Barack Obama is a natural born American. I don't share those doubts, b...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Berkeley Kicks Out Its Poor

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Berkeley has come up with a plan ( Hot debate ahead on Berkeley's energy plans , Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writer, Saturday, April ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Carbon Offsets, the Pet Rocks of Environmentalism

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San Francisco has come up with a great idea to tap into the idiocy that once fueled the Pet Rock buying craze, combined with the ancient Cat...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Blacks are Racist and Homophobic

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Blacks are not only racist, they’re homophobic. California gays are in high dudgeon over passage of Proposition 8, which amended the Califor...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Democrats Believe in Man-Caused Global Warming and UFO’s

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When you ask a Democrat about the problems with Social Security and Medicare, they reply: “What problems?” But if you ask them about UFO’s, ...
Friday, September 12, 2008

Che Lives! (In Our Colleges, Anyway)

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Che Lived! Che Lives! Che will never die! Che lives. But in Guatemala, Che only lives on T-shirts sold in T-shirt shops which are usually lo...
Saturday, September 06, 2008

Rural Guatemala is Progressive Heaven

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After a couple of days in Guatemala City, Alice and I flew to Isles de Flores and overnighted there, then went by mini-bus to the Mayan ruin...
Saturday, August 30, 2008

Iraq War Deaths in Perspective

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Since the Iraq War began over five years ago, the United States has suffered about 3,400 combat deaths, roughly the number killed in any fou...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

Give Us Back Our Chains!

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The International Herald Tribune, now an acolyte of The New York Times, laments the deaths of “–isms” in India caused by recent rampant indi...
Saturday, August 09, 2008

Socialist Masquerade - "Progressive" Economics

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(This is a response to a letter in our local weekly paper, The Independent Coast Observer, by a local Liberal touting the virtues of Progres...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Unintended Environmental Consequences of Liberalism

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The world is filled with solutions to human suffering that Liberals won’t allow. In fact, many of Liberals' pet programs add immeasurabl...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

John McCain’s Taxes - New York Times Still Can’t Get It Right

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This is the sort of story that even The Times couldn’t mess up, especially when they assign it to a veteran reporter supported by an army o...
Saturday, April 19, 2008

The Idiot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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I titled a previous post,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fool or Fraud .” Since then I’ve refined my labeling, and it’s clear Ferlinghetti is a mer...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Socialized Medicine - the Dream is Alive

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Socialized medicine shares a universal aspect of socialism: The believers in socialism (communism without a KGB) always say it will work if ...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

Medical Expense Bankruptcies

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A recent commenter accused me of being either an owner, employee, or a “plant” for medical insurance companies. His reasons, apparently, wer...