By Selwyn Duke
People are emotional beings, often governed more by feelings than reason. And this is never truer than with leftist people.
If you want to understand liberals, know that most of their ideology is simply a pseudo-intellectual justification for what feels right to them. As for these feelings, the one stereotypically associated with the left is compassion, which supposedly manifests itself in mercy, charity, forgiveness and temperance. In reality, though, a feeling that far better characterizes the left is envy.
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By Selwyn Duke
Twenty-year-old Naser Abdo joined the U.S. Army more than a year ago. Now that it’s time to be sent to Afghanistan, however, he’s having second thoughts. He is refusing deployment, claiming conscientious-objector status.
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By Selwyn Duke
Now that Barack Obama has decided to be for the Ground Zero
mosque before being implicitly against it (perhaps), discussion about his faith
has once again reached a fever pitch. To
many, his stance proves he’s a Muslim, with a recent poll showing that almost
20 percent of Americans hold that opinion; to others, it just reflects a desire
to be faithful to the Constitution (now, that would be change). The truth, however, is a bit more
nuanced. Obama is not religiously
Muslim. Culturally, though . . . well, that’s
a different matter altogether.
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By Selwyn Duke
Judge Vaughn Walker's legal ruling striking down California's Proposition 8 certainly was no triumph of
intellectualism. But while it's easy to thus dismiss it, what's usually
forgotten is that reasoning such as his flies only in a certain cultural milieu
-- a milieu that, in part, has been shaped by conservatives. Let's examine the
matter.
Walker's lack of intellectualism is profound. Among other
things, he said that opposition to faux marriage was ultimately based on
"moral disapproval." While this is a rhetorically compelling argument
in an age where "morality" has become a dirty word, it is also
nonsense. This is not because he is wrong in his understanding of marriage's
more cerebral defenders; it is because he is wrong in his understanding of law.
For the fact is that all credible legal proscriptions and prescriptions are a
matter of "moral disapproval." Don't believe me? I'll explain.
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By Selwyn Duke
There is such a thing as a conditioned response. Here's an example: Leftists call conservatives "racists." Conservatives cower and stutter some defense. Leftists call conservatives "racists" some more. Conservatives cower some more. Question: How do you think you break this pattern?
We've seen this again with the recent vitriol spewed by NAACP head Ben Jealous (a fitting last name). Speaking at the NAACP convention in Kansas City, Jealous accused the Tea Party of, take a guess...cue the "Jeopardy!" music..."racism." Just as predictably, many conservatives are running around trying to convince everyone that, by gum, they really are swell guys. No, really. I'm not a racist. I don't beat my wife. I don't kick my dog. I eat my organic vegetables and drive a Prius.
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