"The rhetoric of violence on the left eclipses that on the right…"
"... by an order of magnitude.": This is the typical liberal-left calumny we've all become used to by now. The flight of fancy of a small town editor's op-ed, …
Category: Wisdom
"People are not stimulus-response machines"
Garry Hamilton is speaking truth to the nonsensical: I continue to see assertions that "speech creates thought" or that "symbols are violence" and variations on the idea that thoughts …
"There's a climate of hate out there, all right…"
Glenn Reynolds at The Wall Street Journal: There's a climate of hate out there, all right, but it doesn't derive from the innocuous use of political clichés. And former …
"if he'd been a black writer; his prose would stand unassailed"
Random Thoughts is waxing eloquent on the efforts to remove "offensive words" from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: I've never agreed with banning the book because of Twain's use …
"blatant untruths, compounded of vindictiveness and ignorance in equal parts"
This one from Venerable Beads comes our way via two of my CatholicRoll friends, The Anchoress and The Paragraph Farmer, with the former getting the initial credit for the …