Tag Archives: Leviathan

Common Core Adultery

Posted on April 4, 2014 by The Political Hat

     Now 8 year olds are learning about important topics with their reading comprehension Common Core lessons:  Adultery! Common core 8th graders and adultery pic.twitter.com/2aCK40Q525 — marc haig (@marchaig) March 28, 2014      Is there really no better literary text or other … Continue reading →

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A Glimmer of Hope for Free Speech in Australia

Posted on April 3, 2014 by The Political Hat

     Australia’s 1975 Racial Discrimination Act, in section 18c, makes it illegal to cause someone else to feel offense if that offense is racially based.  In effect this means that incorrect thinking will be banned.  There are a few “exceptions” in … Continue reading →

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Quick Takes – Public School’s Religious Discrimination, Speaking English a H8 Crime, and Education sans Parents

Posted on March 31, 2014 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: Education      Despite the fact that under both Federal and state non-discrimination … Continue reading →

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The REAL Bigots Regarding Same Sex Marriage

Posted on March 31, 2014 by The Political Hat

     The typical whine of the Progressive Left when it comes to Same Sex Marriage is that their enemies are “intolerant” and won’t treat people equally regardless of people’s possible predilection to snog those of the same sex.  Tolerance, then, was … Continue reading →

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Hospital Care in the “Socialist Paradise” of Venezuela

Posted on March 29, 2014 by The Political Hat

     Just when you thought that medical care in the “socialist paradise” of Venezuela couldn’t get worse… Welcome to #Venezuela Social Revolution. No enough beds to take care of patients #SOSVzla #sosvenezuela pic.twitter.com/fLx46RZpLt — MiamiSun (@jperezmiami) March 17, 2014      Coming to … Continue reading →

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The State is (a passive agressive) Mother

Posted on March 17, 2014 by The Political Hat

     One of the core precepts of the Progressive Left is that all is within the state, nothing is outside the state, and nothing is against the state.  The biggest obsticle to this is the family.  No wonder, then, that the … Continue reading →

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Yet More College Leftists Threatening Physical Action

Posted on March 12, 2014 by The Political Hat

     It has been previously noted that the University of Michigan Black Student Union threatened “physical action” unless their “more-Left-than-Academics” demands were met, and how the university caved.      It turns out this was the first of many such threats of “physical … Continue reading →

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We Are Not The Masses

Posted on March 8, 2014 by The Political Hat

     The Progressives, and the broader Left in general, truly believe that people are but interchangeable widgets in a greater collective whole, i.e. the “Masses.”  They claim to speak for all of us, and for elected officials to speak for all … Continue reading →

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American Flag Banned in America

Posted on March 5, 2014 by The Political Hat

     American public schools can prohibit students from wearing the American flag because anti-American thugs were likely going to silence those students with violence anyway: “The court points out that the rights of students in public high schools are limited — … Continue reading →

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A Grinding Inexorable Decline

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Guest Poster

     The following is from commentator “non-purist” on the Ace of Spades HQ:      I think the Tea Party and Scott Walker may well end up as speed bumps and footnotes – but my crystal ball also does not contain any spectacular … Continue reading →

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