Why No One Likes MSNBC

MSNBC’s ratings are in the toilet this month, and many of us gleefully anticipate the day that someone decides to flush. I actually could watch the network when Pat Buchanan was a regular, but since they decided to can him it has become an even more obvious and transparent Democratic Party propaganda machine, an insufferable echo chamber of left-wing elitists (and Al Sharpton) congratulating one another, confirming each other’s biases, and smirking at the rest of the country.

But can’t you say the same about FOX News and the Republicans? Sure. Well, maybe not. Believe it or not, FOX News actually does welcome and allow opposite points of view in a way MSNBC hasn’t for quite some time now. O’Reilly and Hannity usually have some leftist on the show to debate with. When was the last time anyone who represented even lite, mainstream conservatism was allowed any time on MSNBC? FOX is undoubtedly partisan, but they usually have at least one person on a panel who disagrees.

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The UK’s Daily Express reports:

PARENTS are being secretly judged on their views on race and diversity while in hospital with their newborn babies under the SNP Government’s latest assault on family life…

In a further twist, the same health board is asking children – some of them still at nursery school – to rate their parents or carers on a scale of 1-10…

Under one part of the scheme, parents are secretly monitored by maternity staff to assess their suitability for raising children.

If they are deemed to be worthy of further investigation, another form then asks whether or not they “respect and value diversity” and give “due prominence to their racial, ethnic and cultural heritage”.

I’d like someone to explain to me what the substantive difference between North Korea and Scotland is at this point. Scots may have enough to eat, but other than that, it would make no difference to me whether I lived in one country or the other.

This is exactly what the neo-Marxists would like for the rest of Britain, Europe and North America. This is not a slippery slope; it is an avalanche of inhuman tyranny, a totalitarian dictatorship that rivals that of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, and it must be resisted and stopped – by any means necessary.

Scottish parents have a positive moral obligation to do everything within their power to undermine, subvert and resist the policies of their government. So do we all, when such policies are enacted by our own governments.

Islam and The West: Fact, Fiction, Fallacy, Fogginess

It’s happened again: another crazed, Western-born Muslim has committed a demented act of aggression against his own country’s armed forces. This time it happened in the UK, but we in the US have dealt with this before. And as it happens with most issues, the mainstream left and right each present some of the truth, but not enough of it to prevent both from looking incoherent and confused at best. Then they add demonstrable falsehoods to the mix. The right is wrong on foreign policy; the left is wrong on domestic policy. I will deal with each in turn.

Tyranny Can’t Be Subtle

One of the signs of age is a tendency to not be surprised as increasingly ridiculous things happen around you. The case of  Petrona Smith is undoubtedly one of the most ridiculous stories I have ever heard, but also one of the least surprising. Smith, who is a black female Spanish instructor from the West Indies, was fired from her job – not even warned or reprimanded – for using the word “negro” in class.

Not “Negro” as in “outdated but never extremely offense word referring to a black person”, but rather “negro” as in the Spanish word for the color black. A student(s) apparently took umbrage with her use of the word, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it were the same students whom Smith alleges called her a “fucking monkey”, a “cockroach” and a “nigger.”

Liberate One: Immigration, Culture, and Libertarian Ideals

Liberate One has replied to my reply of his initial critique of my post about the libertarian label. Here is my reply, and don’t worry if you haven’t read all of the previous back and forth; there’s plenty of interesting information here regarding demographics, immigration, culture and other juicy topics for the general reader.

Thomas Paine & The Cultural Origins of Liberty

One of the reasons I don’t identify as a “libertarian” is that the libertarians view liberty mostly as an abstract ideal, as opposed to a product of culture and history. If liberty can just be shown to be ethically sound, that is all one really needs to know. And yet this mindset leads to the endorsement of liberty without limits. Even if one thinks that there shouldn’t be any limits – an insane proposition if one really thinks upon the meaning of words – the reality is that there are limits, objectively imposed, upon the lifespan of liberty.

Harry Reid: True Believer, or Malevolent Psychopath?

I ask not only of him, of course, but any and all government officials and bureaucrats who believe that our tax system is voluntary. Yes, you read correctly: voluntary. John Hayward, referring to a 2008 interview with Harry Reid (linked below) explains:

[T]he “voluntary” aspect of taxation is that you’re allowed to figure up your own tax liability, either on your own or by hiring professional assistance.  It has nothing to do with the nature of taxation itself, or your obligation to participate in the system, which is why Reid makes such a fool of himself when he tries to portray American taxation as some kind of free-willed community-spirit activity, compared to the dictatorial income seizures of certain other unspecified governments.

I don’t know if I agree with Hayward’s speculation elsewhere in the piece about the motives behind such abuses of language. Or rather, it isn’t that I disagree, but I think that there may be more to it.