Category Archives: Progressives

Fighting Discrimination Against Biological Fathers

Posted on November 12, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Men who raise the children they have sired, and do to in a monogamous relationship (i.e. Marriage) with the mother of said children, ought to be supported by society and our cultural norms and mores.  It is a family with … Continue reading →

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Equality Über Alles

Posted on November 8, 2013 by The Political Hat

     One of the major ideological components of the broader Left is a perverted sense of “justice” wherein  there is an equality of outcome and everyone is the same.  The obvious downside is that this means that they’d “rather the poor … Continue reading →

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Children Taught to Kill Based on Race and Religion

Posted on November 4, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Wisconsin talk show host Vicki McKenna uncovered an odious school assignment for an English class where students are told to choose who dies based on a hypothetical lifeboat situation.  Some of the factors that the students are taught to ponder … Continue reading →

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How the Government’s “Voluntary” Pilot Programs Work

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Guest Poster

     Guest post from AoSHQ commentator “ChemJeff.”      Look, this is how these “voluntary” “pilot programs” work.      First, the pilot program is started by a bunch of lefty do-gooders who sign up all of their friends. Due to heavy selection bias, the … Continue reading →

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Common Core Celebrating Obedience to the Collective

Posted on November 1, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Yet another example of political propagandizing under the umbrella of the “Common Core” curricula now declares that everyone must obey the dictates of the government, especially when the “well-being” of the collective trump the freedom of the individual: This is … Continue reading →

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When Bureaucrats Condemning Innocent People to Death is Considered Praiseworthy

Posted on October 31, 2013 by The Political Hat

     An Canadian court in Ontario ruled that doctors can not withhold treatment from a patient if the patient’s family does not want it.  However, the court ruled that a quasi-judicial board of bureaucrats can overrule the family!  Canada has Death … Continue reading →

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America Has Been Warned

Posted on October 30, 2013 by The Political Hat

     M.E.P. Daniel Hannan spoke at the Free Market forum at Hillsdale College speaks about the economic idiocy and bureaucratic overreach of the European Union, and warns America that it is on the same path.      Alas, that warning was ignored last … Continue reading →

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Common Core: Creating the NEW Soviet Person

Posted on October 30, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The 1987 miniseries Amerika depicted life in the United States after a bloodless takeover engineered by the Soviet Union.  A scene, near the end, depicts a young American boy in a Komsomol style uniform wax poetically about the wonders of … Continue reading →

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The Perfect Description of the Left’s Mindset

Posted on October 29, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Gov. Moonbeam (AKA Jerry Brown) of the Fools’ Golden State of California has unwittingly summarized perfectly the very description of the Left’s core mindset: Jerry Brown: "Government can best solve the problems that it, at first, creates." #CAP10 — daveweigel … Continue reading →

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Vice Ministry of Supreme Social Happiness

Posted on October 28, 2013 by The Political Hat

     In the role playing game Paranoia, set in the future where an insane all-powerful computer runs a domed city, fun and happiness are mandatory.  In the game, one player can be assigned the mandatory bonus duty of being the Happiness … Continue reading →

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