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...find among “Bible-burning,” “latte-drinking,” and “tax-raising” the common epithet “pot-smoking.” A well-stuffed joint is, apparently, a familiar staple in the progressive??s quiver alongside a Che shirt and a burning American flag. Unfortunately, marijuana as political issue goes better to the tune of “Puttin’ on the Ritz” than “The Internationale,” for drug consumption, even if it frees...
...awful picture of himself on the cover of “Culture Warrior,” his latest book in which he discusses the “fierce culture war between those who embrace traditional values and those who want to change America into a ‘secular-progressive?? country.” He’s sporting a blue windbreaker with an American flag conspicuously behind him. Oh Bill, stop trying so hard. We know you’re patriotic. Why can’t you just wear a suit like everyone else...
...given their great potential for influence. Yet to expect established institutions to head the movement for wholesale reform is naïve. Rather, the passionate individuals that compose civil society must lead the charge. Only then will the various “enlightened” or “progressive?? institutions follow suit...
...Taxes were reduced or leveled; crime is really less an issue; rent control is really less an issue. There’s nothing to exacerbate the voters’ fears, concerns, or anything like that.”Many of the challengers, ranging from self-described “progressive?? Jesse Gordon to libertarian candidate Bill Hees, have made property tax reform the centerpiece of their campaigns. The candidates point to local anger over a 2004 property tax reassessment that sent some homeowners’ taxes skyrocketing. But the City Council moved in September to lessen the burden...
...homophobe”—a term which, thankfully, still elicits my word processor’s red-underline spell-check function—is a person who has a psychological illness, who must be ignored, and who can only see the light through that “progressive?? melange of tolerance and understanding. And to cure them all, there will have to be heaping mounds of understanding: as it happens, 57 percent of Americans—“homophobes” by definition—consider homosexuality “against God?...