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News of the Week (April 5th, 2024)

Posted on May 5, 2024 by The Political Hat

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Firing Line Friday: Government and the Arts

Posted on May 3, 2024 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      Should the Federal government subsidize art and the humanities? From subsidizing it as an emplopyment scheme in the … Continue reading →

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Victims of Communism Day, 2024

Posted on May 1, 2024 by The Political Hat

     Today is Victims of Communism Day. It is also “May Day,” where “useful idiots” march and demonstrate in free countries, while those who have to actually live under Communism are made to march lest they face dire consequences.      Though the … Continue reading →

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Liberty vs. Virtue: The False Dilemma Fallacy

Posted on April 30, 2024 by The Political Hat

     The Post-Conservative Right shares much of it’s worldview with the older Hard Left. Not in the eschaton they want to immanentize, but that we must more forcefully so immanentize. To this end, we see the false dilemma fallacy of freedom … Continue reading →

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The Rise Of Trans-Speciesism

Posted on April 29, 2024 by The Political Hat

     There was a time when people who believed that they were an animal like a deer, both in real life as well as that hellhole known an Tumblr, were considered crazy. Comparisons between such people and those who claim to … Continue reading →

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News of the Weak (April 24th, 2024)

Posted on April 28, 2024 by The Political Hat

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Firing Line Friday: Amnesty ‘74

Posted on April 26, 2024 by The Political Hat

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      Illegal immigration is a huge issue today as is amnesty, like the one passed back in the ‘80s … Continue reading →

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Quick Takes – All The Climate Things: Your Car’s Energy; Your Farm And Home; Your Cold Temperature

Posted on April 25, 2024 by The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: All your things are belong to Gaia (in care of the … Continue reading →

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Utah vs. Gaia (And Robots And Aliens)

Posted on April 23, 2024 by The Political Hat

     Governments either creating or banning “rights” for “nature” is as hot of a topic as ever, and now Utah has not only banned “rights” for Gaia, but far beyond that with HB 0249. It reads, in part: 63G-31-102. Legal personhood … Continue reading →

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News of the Week (April 21st, 2024)

Posted on April 21, 2024 by The Political Hat

  News of the Week for April 21st, 2024

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