"Conservatives don't get honorary degrees"

Tony Kushner got one.

He wrote about ethnic cleansing and tried to lie his way into the position that Israel should never have been created.

Someone on the board at CUNY disagreed with giving him an honorary degree. Gosh, Brandeis gave him one in 2006, they're that intelligent, how come CUNY isn't intelligent enough to give him one?

As Prager says, "You can't be too far left."

I was a student at UCLA in the second half of the Seventies. That being the decade after the Sixties, one would think that the acceptability of leftwing thought would have been at its zenith, but no, students incapable of analyzing the intellectual iconoclasm of "question authority" graduated, finished growing up, and became college professors. They settled in nicely to reform the world by passing on their extreme leftism. Their students, the next generation of Americans, graduated around the turn of the century.

I knew this bunch, I was one of them, I lived among them, and despite the desperate measures UCLA took to keep students from meeting, discussing, hashing out, learning from one another, or making friends, I had many many political discussions with many of the roughly forty people who hung around the computer club in the Seventies. Most of them were liberal. I was liberal. We agreed that liberalism was good. We agreed that we were better people because we were liberals. We knew that our opinions were higher and more noble than any other opinions, because they came from around the world as well as from our own liberal roots that we had acquired in high school and even in junior high, though this varied from student to student.

We knew that "share the wealth" was good. We knew that capitalists were greedy bastards who kept other people from sharing in the immense bounties of this country. We knew, too, that this country had within it the resources to make everyone rich if they didn't fight the opportunity. Sure, there were lazy bastards who were just fine with being poor. But these lazy bastards tended to have children, and their children would grow up poor, deprived, malnourished, lacking opportunities, and educated to be like the rest of the Great Unwashed America.

That's right. Everyone else was a great unwashed one. We were the privileged knowledgeable few. That's because we were leftists and leftists always knew better.

This is liberalism. This is the self-aggrandising of all liberal and leftwing opinion. Left is good, conservative is evil. Nazis were right wingers, therefore right wingers are Nazis. Communism was good. Equality of all is what this country was founded on and this is a value we need to enforce today, even if it means legal strictures and the force of law. Inequality means persecution, oppression, and exploitation, all of which are straight from the devil. Therefore conservatives are demons and their ideas are demonic. Repress and suppress them, throw rocks at them, kill them.

My point is, or would have been if I had the energy to finish what I was driving at, that my university was so damned leftist there was no room for dissent or disagreement, and no need for discussion. And that's why today no conservative gets those honorary degrees or speaking engagements on anything like par with the leftist professors, guest authors, opinion wonks, and journalists from any college or university in this country.

"Noam Chomsky thinks Bush is much worse than Bin Laden."

What else do you need?

Chomsky, as a representative of the far left, and unfortunately one whom the press listen to as if he were authoritative on the subject of politics rather than on his field of expertise--linguistics!--is a nut. And he says stupid things like this, and has done all his life. How can you listen to someone from the far left any more than you listen to someone from the far right? It's because you've kidded yourself for years into believing that Leftist thought is normative and right wing thought is just evil. Nothing but evil, and needs to be attacked and degraded whenever possible, such that all right wingers become monsters, demons whom listening to is an act of evil.

This keeps the leftwing mind solidly closed. It's exactly like greeting a Jehovah's Witness at your door.

Idiot talker on Matt Lauer show.

On pathetic guest wants to whine over whether it's okay to cheer when the good guys kill the bad guys. "Is this justice or is it vengeance?" she howls, obviously unable to make any moral discernment. Apparently this product of the public schools, or perhaps of Crossroads School in western Los Angeles, is completely unacquainted with the concept of "justice". For decades (at least since the Sixties), her mentors have supplied her with the notion that all justice is just vengeance, apparently because no justice is allowed ever to be something that is dispensed in order to bring an element of "just (i.e. fair, righteous) consequences" to any action.

"Your children have already seen images of people celebrating the death of someone," says Lauer, to which I add: "Yup, and probably been spared a lifetime of nightmares because of it." When Prager said it was good for children to see good triumph over evil and it was good to see that "good men kill bad men" I remembered my childhood and how those ideas were reinforced by every good-guy/bad-guy show we ever watched. You'll note that even though MacGyver never once used a gun, he still managed to kill bad guys pretty often, almost every episode in fact.

Remember, it's the Left who gave us children who cry at the thought of Global Warming, and before them these children cried at the thought of A-bombs blowing them up in their sleep.

"Republicans praise Obama; do you think it would have been the other way around?"

We already have an example, wherein many democrats had already offered some praise for George Bush's actions, but then were apparently instructed in how they ought to hhave twisted the event to the negative and criticized Bush for doing what he did.

I refer specifically to what Bush was doing on the morning of 9-11, reading a book to a kindergarten class. His aide leaned down and whispered the news of the destruction of the twin towers in New York City. Bush only paused for a moment, nodeed to the aide, and went calmly forward and finished the book.

At first the democrats having anything to do with the situation actually commended him for his calmness, praising him for not leaping to a panic, jumping out of his chair, frightening the kids, causing terror all around, and so forth. But within a few days, the song they were singing had acquired quite a few sour notes. Bush SHOULD have stopped reading and rushed off to Air Force One to hurry back to the White House.

This is a plainly idiotic approach to take. What was Bush supposed to do from the White House? He had everything he always takes with him, right there with him. So does Obama. I would be appalled if Obama were stupid enough to jump out of his chair and knock children flying as he rushed off to do NOTHING USEFUL.

But that's always the way with the Left. Ignore the issues, ignore the debate, just attack the person. Shame on you people. Well, at least you're consistently shameful.