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Hillary and Bernie, Politics Oddest of Odd Couples – by Amanda S. Green

Hillary and Bernie, Politics Oddest of Odd Couples – by Amanda S. Green

Hillary almost told the truth.

Or, as someone commented on social media, this is probably the closest she’s come to it in a long time. At least that’s the case when you talk HRC and politics.

No, this isn’t the opening to a new review of a book about the last presidential election. Nor am I returning to Clinton’s book What Happened. In fact, I’d planned on starting a new review today. I wanted to find something to snark....

Acquired Imbecility

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There is a type of idiocy so profound, and so profoundly anti-reality that you need to go to school for several years, at a cost of millions before you actually internalize it and believe it with all your heart.

A lot of this kind of crazy stupidity is epitomized by the left in the country and by our former president.  People often referred to president Obama as believing all the sorts of things that college freshmen discuss late into the night as though they were great mysteries of the worl...

Locked from the inside

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Years ago, Kate Paulk and I fell into watching a Greek Orthodox monk on youtube, because he did the most fascinating lectures on theology, on psychology (I believe he had been a psychologist in secular life, before professing) and on living a rewarding/fulfilled life.

I don’t remember the details anymore, though I did buy his book, which is — waves hand vaguely — somewhere in the library of Babylon downstairs.

But one thing stuck with me through the years, partly because it was so different...

A Place In The World

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The main thing Jordan Peterson concerns himself with is making order in a world that has lost it.

This is the reason the opposition to him and calling him things like fascist, was loony.  They started even before he’d come out as opposing some/most of the left’s projects.   Mind you, his political philosophy isn’t even particularly well integrated.  He still falls for leftist lies that “inequality is very bad” eve though a) inequality is natural.  Great apes have hierarchies with different p...

Book Promo by Sarah and Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

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*Note these are books sent to us by readers/frequenters of this blog.  Our bringing them to your attention does not imply that we’ve read them and/or endorse them, unless we specifically say so.  As with all such purchases, we recommend you download a sample and make sure it’s to your taste.  If you wish to send us books for next week’s promo, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com.  One book per author per week. Amazon links only.-SAH*

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Life Liberty And the Pursuit of Happiness

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Gove...

Slouching Into Shackles

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One of the things I keep trying to explain to my “woke” colleagues, when they stand tall and righteous and put their shoulders back and say that Heinlein was racisthomophobicsexist or that great authors of the past should have been better than to follow the prejudices of their time, is that when you’re immersed in your time, you don’t see the prejudices and the blind spots.

I have a little more insight into how culture shapes what’s possible to think, because I changed my culture as an adult...

Social Poison – A Reading of Thomas Sowell’s BRAWL by Amanda S. Green

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As promised, I’ve returned to Thomas Sowell and the final parts of his excellent essay, Black Rednecks and White Liberals. Whether you believe in a “Redneck culture” or that it is something that came to parts of the South from sections of England, the underlying basis of what Sowell has to say still stands. There is a culture that white liberals have identified in African-American society, held up as being “authentic” an...

The Rearguard

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Mind the dying beast.  It’s when it bites the fiercest.

Sometime in 2004, as the left made a great noise all around, and I was afraid Jean Kerry would win, not because I liked George W. Bush much, but because I was afraid what our retreating from Iraq just then would mean, in terms of my sons’ having to go and fight that war again in worse conditions (yes, I know it’s still a possibility not to say probability) a friend told me the left is noisiest and most visible when they feel they’re los...

Un-American. There. I Said it- by Vindaloo Diesel

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Un-American. There. I Said it – by Vindaloo Diesel

I try to be a pretty tolerant guy. Tolerant of different views, different lifestyles, different cultures. But one thing I’ve always had a tough time of it with is collectivist ideology. Not the people necessarily, your average person who ascribes to such modes of thought tends to be no different from others in a lot of respects. Now, the people in power, and some of the people on the dole can be a different story. But for the most part, I ap...