I know this is not PC of me, and that it will draw fire from certain quarters, but, when I saw this, I had to wonder: how many of us would ever “go gay?” I mean, if you are born that way, and you cannot change, then how does this sort of thing happen? Ex-Gay…
Princeton University defines it as: A cult of personality arises when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods, to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.[1] Cults of personality are usually associated withdictatorships. The sociologist Max Weber developed a tripartite classification of authority; the cult of personality holds parallels with what Weber defined as ‘charismatic authority‘. A cult…
The same political party who wants to know who you are calling and if you have ever had the crabs, is quite spectacularly uninterested in whether they know whether you are eligible to vote or not: State lawmakers from around the country crowded into a packed room Monday at the meeting of the National Conference…
As promised, this is the last post in my series on Progressive/Conservative, Left/Right and the end of my public act of suicide on the RNL 🙂 Political Labels: The History of “Conservative/Conservatism” Do you know what the word “Conservative” means? The term actually has a definition, but that definition has changed over the years because different…
Not that way – sheesh – get your mind out of the gutter for goodness sakes: Jesse Jackson hasn’t yet declared Zurich the new Selma, but from some of the news coverage you’d think Oprah Winfrey was the next Rosa Parks. The former TV-talk superstar experienced what New York’s Daily News calls “a disturbing racial incident” last…
I have to mention something that probably won’t make me very popular here on my own site – but it is what it is. I got after Joe over the past few weeks, not because I disagree or dislike him, but because I watch him produce outstanding and powerful logic and post very well-reasoned positions…and…
Does the US Constitution allow for a judge to rename your child? This judge thinks so; “The word Messiah is a title and it’s a title that has only been earned by one person and that one person is Jesus Christ,” – Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew So do we have a lawful ruling under…
I often hear defenders of government welfare claim that the government has to provide for the needy because no one else will do it. Sadly, these people are totally ignorant of just how far government has gone to make it impossible for people to be charitable. Well, here is proof. The government is starting to…
When I saw this story, the only thing I could think of is that those on the Right warned us that this is what the Left was actually after with Obamacare. Then I realized just how many of these type of “I told you so” stories have been run since Obama was elected and I…
I think Levin and I are on the same page. I’ve downloaded his book to start reading today… Here are excerpts from Joel Pollack’s review/interview with Levin: More generally, the book has three main strengths. The first is that it identifies the key challenge facing the conservative movement as a constitutional one–not a “demographic problem” that must…
Interesting article in the UK Daily Mail. Channel 4 is doing an investigative report to see what would happen if today’s UK welfare recipients were subject to the same rules that were used when the system was devised in 1949: These officers use the original rules of the welfare state — which were some 8,000…
The Rio Norte Line 
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