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| b3e6d63 | Pragmatist William James put the matter with characteristic realism: Atheists are like people who live on a frozen lake surrounded by cliffs that offer no means of escape. They know that the ice is melting and the inevitable day is coming when they must plunge ignominiously into the water. This prospect is as meaningless as it is horrifying. The Christian too must endure the chill and the inevitability of death, but his faith enables him to.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 6510e6f | But there is also a rival view, which we can call the mainstream progressive or Obama view. This view agrees with the diagnosis of America but provides a different remedy. The mainstream progressive remedy is guilt and atonement. Americans, in this view, should feel guilty about what they have done and continue to do. Moreover, Americans--especially those who are productive and successful--must realize that their wealth is illegitimate and .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| f14ef6b | So what did Mussolini do? He founded, as he put it, the only genuinely socialist government in the world, with the possible exception of the Soviet Union.35 Mussolini attempted to put into effect what he termed the "true socialism" that he said "plutocratic elements and sections of the clergy" had prevented him from implementing in Italy. At Salo, Mussolini outlined a socialist program that went beyond anything he attempted in Italy. The ne.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| a4387d6 | Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power." James Madison, fourth President of the United States of America. Served 1809-1817. Known as the "Father of the Constitution" for contributions to the drafting of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights." | Max Allan Collins | ||
| ed8bc27 | On March 23, 1919, one of the most famous socialists in Italy founded a new party, the Fasci di Combattimento, a term that means "fascist combat squad." This was the first official fascist party and thus its founding represents the true birth of fascism. By the same token, this man was the first fascist. The term "fascism" can be traced back to 1914, when he founded the Fasci Rivoluzionari d'Azione Internazionalista, a political movement wh.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| c6d7370 | For Obama, however, it is good for America to have less influence. In tune with his progressive and anti-colonial ideology, Obama regards the American empire as the only remaining empire in the world. While America exalts democratic and universalistic ideals, in reality its foreign policy has been based on self-interest and plunder. America has used its power irresponsibly, to dominate others and to control their oil and other resources. Co.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 1d58393 | Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Obama's teacher at Harvard Law School and friend since then, has sought to hide his association with Obama. "I am a leftist," he later told an Obama biographer, "and by conviction as well as temperament, a revolutionary. Any association of mine with Barack Obama . . . could only do harm." Unger advocates what he terms "world revolution," a basic takeover of financial institutions and their reshaping to serve global.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 8e173b7 | Jackson read the Indian treaties in much the same way that Democrats and progressives today read the U.S. Constitution. They care little about what it says; they interpret it to mean what they want it to mean. Jackson | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| d0ac0a4 | But it's worth noting, because successive generations of Democrats have continued Jackson's practice of trying to discredit nonwhite opponents by portraying them as inauthentic. Today | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 4c17b41 | the higher-ups at the | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| b5282a9 | The 1960s was motivated by repudiation of the old way and the quest for a new way. "Liberation" now came to mean liberation from old values--from the spirit of 1776. This took many shapes and forms--drugs, religious experimentation, sexual promiscuity, even bra-burning, as well as protesting, looting, and rioting. Perhaps most repulsive was the heartless ingratitude and even meanness that young people showed their parents. When frugal, hard.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| a87108e | The Clintons' last act before leaving the White House was to take stuff that didn't belong to them. The Clintons took china, furniture, electronics, and art worth around $360,000. Hillary literally went through the rooms of the White House with an aide, pointing to things that she wanted taken down from shelves or out of cabinets or off the wall. By Clinton theft standards $360,000 is not a big sum, but it certainly underlines the couple's .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| b472ce2 | People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man who shows great fear today may be tomorrow's hero. Who are we to judge?" Audie Murphy, most decorated soldier of World War II, Congressional Medal of Honor winner. Section 46, Lot 366-11, Grid O/P-22.5, Arlington National Cemetery." | Max Allan Collins | ||
| da32d44 | Earlier generations of Americans had to strive to provide food, clothing, and shelter for themselves and their children. This task could prove laborious, unending, backbreaking, but it also provided a goal and a horizon for life. It conferred dignity and a genuine sense of meaning and accomplishment. By contrast, the children of the 1960s had nothing comparable to live for. As far as they could see, the struggle against necessity no longer .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| fd3b51d | Of these, the Creek were known to be the most recalcitrant. Jackson proved his mettle by showing he could mow them down and massacre them into submission, earning his subsequent reputation as an "Indian killer." Today we may wince at the title, but it was considered a compliment among Jackson's Democratic supporters." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 42f98ee | Both the fascists and the progressives viewed the centralized state as the logical outgrowth of everything they stood for. It's all very well to talk about the nation of producers and the interests of the nation, but who decides what its true interests are? Socialists claim to be in favor of equitable redistribution of income and wealth, but who determines what is equitable and does the actual redistribution? To these questions, the fascist.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| aae9eff | Obama is the first president whose ideology was shaped by the radical 1960s. Bill Clinton was the first president who grew up in the 1960s, yet Clinton was also shaped by older influences, including Southern patriotism and Bible Belt conservatism. Clinton came of age in the era of the sexual revolution, and his personal behavior displayed the self-indulgence of the 1960s, yet Clinton's policies showed nothing of the animus toward America th.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| a9a63f4 | A third entrepreneurial contribution is risk. While labor gets paid its fixed wage, the entrepreneurs take all the risk. Entrepreneurs might do well, but they might also lose money, ending up worse than they were before they started. The worker's risk is much lower: at worst, he's out of a job and doesn't get additional wages. No one, however, asks the worker to receive wages only if the company does well, or to give back wages to help the .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 867972f | Even so, the proposal is interesting because Jackson was a Democrat--the founding father of the Democratic Party--while Tubman was a Republican. Admittedly | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 5c0f7a9 | The progressive media is not comfortable with a female black abolitionist representing the Republican Party while a white male slave owner represents the Democratic Party. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 97c94cd | bulls and even royal edicts were largely ignored thousands of miles | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| cc5e416 | To see how cavalier progressives can be with taxpayers' money, consider the case of Leroy Fick. In 2011, the fifty-nine-year-old Fick won a $2 million lottery jackpot. Still, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services ruled he could continue receiving food stamps. The Obama administration agreed. The Detroit News explained the government's rationale: "If Fick had chosen to accept monthly payments of his jackpot, the winnings would.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| bff597a | As he thought about these problems, Hitler's attention was turned to America. Hitler didn't know a lot about America. He had never been to America. And he despised America. "My feelings against Americanism," he later said in 1942, "are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance." Why? He claimed, "Everything about the behavior of American society reveals that it's half Judaised and the other half negrified." Moreover, America is "a country wher.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| aa2ef5a | Perhaps, but Trump's promised restoration is concerned with bringing back jobs. It is also about making government smaller and less bureaucratic. It is not about repealing progress in America on civil rights or women going to work. It is not about sending gays back into the closet. So, too, modern conservatism is about restoring the ideals of the founders, not the actual agrarian, undeveloped world in which the founders lived. So the Right .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 163f7d0 | The progressives pose as the champions not only of fairness and social justice but also of compassion. They are the ones who insist on our obligation to those from whom we have allegedly stolen. Let's leave aside for the moment whether they are right about the theft. What we do know for sure is that progressives assert there has been a theft. They further acknowledge that they are among the beneficiaries of it. Based on this, they would see.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| fbafb07 | Obama likes to portray himself as the savior of the younger generation. In reality, however, college costs are so high in large part because the government subsidizes education with Pell Grants and a whole host of other scholarships and loans. Colleges continually raise tuition because they know that a large portion of the tab is paid for by the taxpayer, not the student. That's how colleges can afford to pay professors six-figure salaries .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| ed693ec | Let's look at the amounts involved.5 When George W. Bush left office, the federal debt was $9 trillion. That's a huge amount, and Bush added nearly $4 trillion to the total, a disgraceful legacy caused primarily by profligate domestic spending and foreign wars. Bush's second term deficits averaged around $500 billion. But still, the $9 trillion represented America's entire debt accumulated from the founding through 2008. Now, under Obama, t.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| a8975fe | Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took $31,000 in late 2013 from his campaign funds to buy jewelry for his granddaughter Ryan Elisabeth Reid's wedding. In his campaign year-end report, Reid tried to hide his granddaughter's relationship to him by simply listing the transaction as a "holiday gift" to one "Ryan Elisabeth." The impression Reid sought to convey was that he was buying gifts for his supporters. When it came to light that Reid had.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| f04b27a | How valid, then, is the progressive critique that "you didn't build that"? The pitch itself has two parts. The first is that society did it, not business; the second is that workers did most of it, not CEOs and entrepreneurs. Both these arrows strike at the same target: entrepreneurs. Consequently an expose of the progressive pitch requires a refutation of this dual attack and also a defense of the entrepreneur, an explanation of what it is.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 4c98012 | This rip-off relied on a series of blatant lies. "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your plan." "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." "The average family will save more than $2,400 per year." "Health care costs will decline." "Health care premiums will go down." "Everyone in this country will now have health insurance." Even though Obama kept saying these things, none of them was true. These statements were simp.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 7a88655 | Even so, for people who know how to recognize it, today's Left is still the party of fascism and National Socialism, old ideologies now marching on a different continent under new colors, a fascism for the twenty-first century. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 2b467dc | assessing Ronald Reagan. There are so many basic questions that even his friends cannot quite figure out, such as (to start with the most basic one): Was he smart? From the brilliant-versus-clueless question flows even more complex ones. Was he a visionary who clung to a few verities, or an amiable dunce who floated obliviously above facts and nuances? Was he a stubborn ideological coot or a clever negotiator able to change course when deal.. | Walter Isaacson | ||
| fb09cbd | Progressives needed a new idea, and Alinsky came up with one: force banks and financial institutions to loan money to unqualified applicants so that they can buy homes. Alinsky's own idea was to terrorize the banks by having thousands of activists walk into banks and open up accounts of one dollar each, in effect paralyzing the bank's normal operations. This became the model for a number of leftist groups that took up the cause of bank inti.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| fd1f1ee | Starting in the Clinton era and continuing through George W. Bush's two terms, progressive activists mounted direct pressure--either in the form of public protest or lawsuits--against banks. This was aimed at intimidating banks to adopt new lending standards and also to engage the activist groups themselves in the lending process. In 1994, a young Barack Obama, recently graduated from Harvard Law School, joined two other attorneys in suing .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 0ae7323 | Rules for Radicals contains several Luciferian principles strewn throughout, such as "Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father; he who fears corruption fears life." On another occasion, Alinsky admiringly cites Lenin. "Lenin was a pragmatist," he writes. "When he returned to what was then Petrograd from exile, he said that the Bolsheviks stood for getting power through the ballot bu.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 450b88b | Sometimes reparations is used to justify a feeding frenzy in which minority claimants simply raid the U.S. Treasury en masse while government bureaucrats facilitate a large transfer of wealth from the taxpayer to these so-called historical victims. A scandalous example of this is the Pigford case. Some ninety-one black farmers had sued the U.S. government alleging a legacy of bias against African Americans. Rather than settle the suit and p.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| f899a26 | the case of Hispanics and Native Americans, it's not even clear that there was an offense. Consider: Texas legitimately revolted against Mexico and established an independent republic. Mexico can't exactly complain about that, because Mexico had just recently revolted against Spain. Then Texas chose to join the United States. Texas has a disputed border with Mexico, and the Mexican War erupted over that disputed territory. Mexico lost the w.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| c69ff97 | The black abolitionist Frederick Douglass once wrote that the founders permitted slavery as a "scaffolding to the magnificent structure, to be removed as soon as the building is completed." In that sense the building was completed in 1865, when the Civil War ended and slavery was abolished nationwide. But how was it abolished? It was abolished because Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans took a firm stance against theft and against the Democ.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 4c15dc2 | 253 | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| c73e62a | Let the sun be proud of its achievement." He added, "It is evident that white and black 'must fall or flourish together.' In the light of this great truth, laws ought to be enacted, and institutions established--all distinctions, founded on complexion ought to be repealed . . . and every right, privilege, and immunity, now enjoyed by the white man, ought to be as freely granted to the man of color." | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| c68e319 | Obama's only connection with phones was to label them Obamaphones and hand them out for free through his community organizer network. Now millions of Americans and illegal immigrants have cell phones paid for by the U.S. government and funded through one of those obscure charges that appear on your phone bill, the "lifeline" tax. Obama undoubtedly hopes you never notice the charge, or ask about it. It's so much better to rip people off when.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| ff61fae | When George W. Bush left office, the federal debt was $9 trillion. That's a huge amount, and Bush added nearly $4 trillion to the total, a disgraceful legacy caused primarily by profligate domestic spending and foreign wars. Bush's second term deficits averaged around $500 billion. But still, the $9 trillion represented America's entire debt accumulated from the founding through 2008. Now, under Obama, the federal debt is $18.5 trillion. It.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 996bf0d | What really matters is that never before in history has America had a con artist as its chief executive and commander in chief. And we may be getting ready to anoint another in immediate succession. One is bad enough; two con artists in a row may be our undoing. These con artists are, just like their Boston counterparts, part of a crime network. This crime network is the Democratic Party, and its leaders are the progressives. For decades no.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 7807bc4 | Let us concede at the outset that, in a free society, freedom will frequently be used badly. Freedom, by definition, includes freedom to do good or evil, to act nobly or basely. Thus we should not be surprised that there is a considerable amount of vice, licentiousness, and vulgarity in a free society. Given the warped timber of humanity, freedom is simply an expression of human flaws and weaknesses. But if freedom brings out the worst in p.. | freedom d-souza | Dinesh D'Souza |